Title Prayer 3 "Hannah's Prayer" (2004.9.19)
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Date: September 19, 2004
Word: 1 Samuel 1:9-20
Title: Hannah's Prayer
What: Today we can learn some lessons from this prayer of Hannah.
1. Hannah is a praying woman
As we go through life, we don't always have a smooth road. Sometimes, there comes a time when you have to go through hardship, adversity, and pain. However, we must not forget that that time is the time of God's work of blessing. If there had been no suffering and no bullying from Peninnah, Hannah would not have prayed before God and would not have given birth to Samuel, a man of God. This is how God makes us perfect children of God.
1) Don't blame God and don't complain!
We pray before God with thanksgiving when suffering comes.
2) Don't try to solve it in a worldly way!
If you try to solve your suffering in a human and worldly way, you start to get more and more twisted, and it only adds to the suffering. Get on your knees and pray in God's way!
3) Don't be disappointed!
In a word, God created the heavens and the earth, and He is the God who raises the poor from the dust and brings them into existence from nothing. Disappointment is the devil's favorite thing.
2. Pray when you are desperate!
It is the state of despair that goes one step further than suffering.
But in the midst of despair, there was a way. It was praying to God. Prayer is the way. When God closes one door, He always opens the other door.
In this way, in despair, a cry of prayer came up to God. Through those who pray, God breaks down the iron walls of despair and leads them to victory and success. The Red Sea of despair divided when we prayed, the Jordan River of despair was divided when we prayed, and the city of Jericho of despair collapsed when we prayed and turned around the city.
Dear brothers and sisters, we need to know that now is the time to pray. Only when you get down on your knees and start praying will the hopeless elements recede.
Rather than worrying about the church, God's church is being built when you become a saint who kneels and prays for the church. Actions are more important than words.
3. A woman who makes a vow and prays
A vow contains earnestness and purpose.
Dear brothers and sisters, if we have made a vow when we prayed before God and have not yet paid it, please repent and pay it back soon.
4 . A woman who was answered by faith
He says there was no search again.