Why hannah prayed

November The Thanksgiving Balloon Karen E. Thanksgiving Word Search Jane K. It Starts with T Helen Friesen. Friend to Friend Janet Peterson. Teacher-of-the-Year Award Greg Larson. Turkey Centerpiece Tricia Ann Williams. Kitchen Krafts Julie Wardell. Which Hat Today? And whenever the time came for Elkanah to make an offering, he would give portions to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and daughters. Why do you not eat?

And why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons? Now Eli the priest was sitting on the seat by the doorpost of the tabernacle of the Lord. Therefore Eli thought she was drunk. Put your wine away from you! I have drunk neither wine nor intoxicating drink, but have poured out my soul before the Lord. I smile at my enemies, Because I rejoice in Your salvation. Even the barren has borne seven, And she who has many children has become feeble.

The Lord will judge the ends of the earth. I highly recommend reading through the whole story have Hannah in 1 Samuel If your on the time crunch than I encourage you to at least read the two prayers that I have posted above. This will help with the 5 powerful keys below. Otherwise you might get a little lost.

Hannah reached her wits end. Years have passed and still no child and constantly being harassed by her limitation and failures. Even the encouragement from her husband fell on deaf ears. Psalm NKJV. God is a God of compassion and love.

And when we pray in such a way that shows Him our desperation, brokenness, and need…He is moved! We see this even in the New Testament when Jesus was moved by compassion. Matthew , Luke When we go to pray we want it to come from a sincere place in our heart, just like Hannah 1 Samuel Even if we are praying prayers from the Bible.

It has to come out of an authentic place. But Hannah was able to kick offense to the curb! And I believe that played a huge roll in her prayer being answered.

The first offense Hannah could have had is against God. He lives outside of time and knew Hannah. He also knew Samuel would be her son and had a set time for him to be born. She trusted that God was able to do this miracle for which she asked. She knew He was the only One who could hear her prayer and bring an answer to her longing.

Hannah was a woman of great prayer. And this was not a nice, neat little prayer. This was a holy moment, a heart-felt cry, with deep emotions of grief and anguish, pouring out her soul to the Lord. She was humbled, broken, and knew the only way to find relief was in God alone.

As soon as Hannah was on her way, she was no longer downcast. She knew in her heart that God was at work. She had faith in her God who is always faithful. She offered to God a sacrifice of praise of worship, believing in His power to do great things.

Maybe her faith was still tested. I prayed for this child, and the Lord has granted me what I asked of him. So now I give him to the Lord. For his whole life he will be given over to the Lord. Samuel may have been around just 3 years of age at that time.

And she was obedient and faithful to her word. Hannah knew there was great power in prayer, there was purpose in the waiting, and there was blessing in the answer to her longings.

Later in the book of Samuel, we read of how she would visit him regularly and bring him gifts, and how God honored her and gave Hannah 5 more children. God will never allow our pain and brokenness to have the final word.

Meanwhile, the boy Samuel grew AV up in the presence of the Lord. I hear from all the people about these wicked deeds of yours. BI Why do you honor your sons more than me by fattening yourselves on the choice parts of every offering made by my people Israel? BM 31 The time is coming when I will cut short your strength and the strength of your priestly house, so that no one in it will reach old age, BN 32 and you will see distress BO in my dwelling. Although good will be done to Israel, no one in your family line will ever reach old age.

BP 33 Every one of you that I do not cut off from serving at my altar I will spare only to destroy your sight and sap your strength, and all your descendants BQ will die in the prime of life.