Title: Patience is the starting point of blessing.
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Title: Patience is the starting point of blessings. Text: 1 Samuel 1:1-20
1. Hannah endured hardship.
Hannah in the text is a person who created blessings through perseverance. The hardships Hannah met were three kinds of hardships. The first was suffering from the environment. In verse 2, Hannah's family had a concubine, and Hannah had no children, and the concubine had children. The family environment made it difficult for him. The circumstances of his home troubled him. Second, there was suffering that came from man. Hannah had no children. So, she was ignored and harassed by her concubine Peninnah. Third, it was suffering from God. Hannah's barrenness was not a physical defect, nor was it the cause of her illness. Because God forbade them to conceive. Since God closed the womb, neither her husband's love nor Hannah's efforts were to no avail. This was a training that made Hannah depend only on God. By praying to God with patience, God answered.
2. We endured hardship and overcame it through prayer.
Get up. And go before God, get down on your knees in prayer, open your heart, and lay everything down before God. We will give you an answer soon. -Do you believe?-
3. Patience to trust in God inevitably produces blessings.