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When Mom Moves from Just Survival to Revival (1 Samuel 1-2)
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Happy Mother’s Day!
During this message we are going to examine the life of a woman named Hannah who went from emotional agony over personal barrenness to victory over a precious baby. It will be amazing to watch Hannah go from emotional survival in life’s harsh circumstances to spiritual revival through life’s greatest comfort in the Lord.
I recall reading a harrowing account of a young couple in their 30’s who took their two children, 4-year old Penelope and 7-month old Sabine on a family vacation in the northwest. They took an old logging road called Bear Camp Road through the mountains of southwestern Oregon.
Through a series of unfortunate factors, the couple wrecked the car and became stranded in the wilderness as it began to rain and then snow. They ran the engine to keep the family warm until the car ran out of gas. They burned the tires after removing them from the car and ate berries just to survive. The husband became desperate and chose to try and walk out of the forest for help, but he strictly instructed his family to stay with the vehicle. After 9 days, the mother and her children were rescued, but unfortunately the father did not survive.
Hannah was experiencing a miserable life externally and internally, simply trying to survive the “wilderness” of dysfunction within her own home, but she made a series of good choices which changed everything for her internally, leading her to a personal revival. Let’s track her footsteps this Mother’s Day weekend!
Her Survival in the Wilderness of Life:
1. The Pain within a Wife without a Little One, 1:2, 5-6
2. The Precautions for a Woman in Lustful Surroundings, 1:3
3. The Provocations within a Family due to a Lashing Tongue, 1:6-7
4. The Problem of a Believer in Low Spirits, 1:7-8, 10, 15-16
5. The Presumptions at Church resulting in Lonely Isolation, 1:9-18
Her Revival in a Land of Promise:
1. The Privilege of a Wife with a Loving Husband, 1:1, 3, 5, 8, 19-23
2. The Prayer of a Woman with a Loaded Down Heart, 1:9-16
3. The Peace within a Believer with a Leaning Faith, 1:17-20
4. The Praise from a Mother with a Lord-Centered Focus, 1:20-2:10
5. The Pledge of a Mother with a Lending Commitment to God, 1:24-28; 2:11, 18-21
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Growing in Grace Devotions and Inspirations
Hosted by Pastor Victor Morrison
First Baptist Church
1700 Milam Street
Columbus, TX, USA 78934
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Introduction to 'Growing in Grace'
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Welcome to Growing in Grace with Pastor Victor Morrison. This is a ministry of First Baptist Church located at 1700 Milam Street, Columbus, Texas. We are praying that God will bless you as you listen to this message.
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Mother's Day Message
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Hey, welcome to Growing Grace. I'm so glad you're with us today. i have a message for mothers. We're really close to Mother's Day. Maybe when you're listening to this, it is Mother's Day. So happy Mother's Day.
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I'm so thankful for my mom. I'm so thankful for my wife, who is also a mother. And so for all mothers, we just try to really... ah communicate how deeply we appreciate you and we thank the Lord for all that you do for us.
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ah Mothers sacrifice so much.
Hannah's Story
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And so anyway, I want to introduce you to ah a lady in scripture whose name was Hannah. And so we're goingnna look at Hannah, who was the mother of Samuel in the Old Testament. We're going to look at 1 Samuel chapters 1 and 2.
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I won't be able to read all of those verses, but we'll try to summarize some of them. But this particular mother, at least at first when she's introduced to us, she's in a really difficult place.
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And maybe you're listening today and you're thinking, I think I know someone like that. maybe Maybe it's you or maybe it's a friend, maybe another relative or family member that's also going through a hard time.
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So this may be may ah ah message you would like to refer ah that someone else listened to. I don't know. But all I know is for Hannah, it was a very difficult life at the beginning.
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But, you know, it's amazing what ah women, especially women who's Roots go down deeply in the Lord. It's amazing how they can weather the storms of life.
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I heard about one mother named Katie Kim. She was a young mother in her 30s. She had two kids, ah four years ah old, ah the daughter ah Penelope.
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And then she had seven month old Sabine, little boy. And so Katie and her husband James decided they'd take a ah vacation, family vacation in the Northwest.
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So they drove into the mountains of southwestern Oregon and were having a great time. They decided to take sort of a road that was off the the main road, and it was a logging truck road.
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It was called Bear Camp Road, if that gives you any idea of how off the beaten path this was. But everything was going fine. They were enjoying the scenery until the car, um I don't know if it got if it went off the side of the road or what happened exactly, but their car was stuck and it began to rain.
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And they couldn't get the car ah loose. ah And so and the rain turned into snow. And before they knew it, they were snowed in. So ah it was okay for a while.
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They could just run the heater in the car and hope that somebody would come by. But since it was sort of this remote road, they were they were disappointed that no one came by.
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And so people began to worry about them, and they sent a search and rescue a helicopter out looking for them. And so it didn't take long until all the gasoline was gone from the tank of the car.
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So they couldn't keep warm in the car that way. ah So ah the husband said, well, the only thing I know to do is just to remove the tires. So James removed the tires and they would burn one tire at a time and just try their best to stay warm as just the days are beginning to click by.
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They would eat berries to survive. But the dad finally said, you know what? I don't think anyone's coming. In order to save your lives, I'm going to have to leave. So he said, the one thing I'm going to request is stay by the car.
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Don't leave the car. Stay right here. Even though it's just a shell, you can't stay warm in there. ah Just stay by the car. And that way we'll know where to find you. And I'm going to walk until I find help.
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Well, nine days passed. And that mother and her two children were rescued. They were fine. Unfortunately, the father, they found him on the 11th day and he did not survive.
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So what a tragic story. But also what a heroic effort by a mother survive. keep her two children as safe as she possibly could in those difficult circumstances.
Katie Kim and Survival
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You know, there's ah a lady, a Christian mother named Lisa Bedford, who's a homeschool mom, who homeschooled two of her kids. And she decided, you know what, I'm going to actually start a website called The Survival Mom, thesurvivalmom.com.
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And so she began to get so many positive ah responses. She wrote a book called Survival Mom, How to Prepare Your Family for Everyday Disasters and Worst-Case Scenarios.
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And so it's it's incredible how this lady began to prepare other ladies for these emergencies. They actually call her a prepper. Now, not a preppy, but a prepper.
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But she definitely is trying to help people put their hope in Christ. And so not be fearful or worried, but to plan and to make sure you're ready for all these different scenarios.
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But um I don't know about Hannah and how much she was prepared for what she went
Spiritual Revival through Prayer
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through. But all I can tell you from what I read in this passage, it was tough. what she was going through, but she survived.
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But she did more than just survive. She made some really good choices that helped her go emotionally from just surviving to thriving, to experiencing not just survival, but I guess you could call it a spiritual revival.
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like something happened within because she heard from God. Let me read some of the first chapter to you so it can kind of set the stage for the rest of the message.
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There was a certain man of Ramathane, Zophim, of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah, the son of jeho Jehoram, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Zoph, and Ephraite.
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He had two wives. The name of the one was Hannah and the name of the other Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
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Now this man used to go up year by year from his city to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of hosts at Shiloh, where the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests of the Lord.
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On the day when Elkanah sacrificed, he would give portions to Peninnah, his wife, and to all her sons and daughters. But the Hannah, he gave a double portion because he loved her.
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Though the Lord had closed her womb, And her rival used to provoke her grievously to irritate her because the Lord had closed her womb.
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So it went on year by year. As often as she went up to the house of the Lord, she used to provoke her. Therefore, Hannah wept.
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And would not eat. in elkanna her husband said er hannah why do you weep and why do you not eat and why is your heart sad am i not more to you then ten sons after they had eaten and drunk in Shiloh, Hannah rose.
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Now, Eli the priest was sitting on the seat beside the doorpost of the temple of the Lord. She was deeply distressed and prayed to the Lord and wept bitterly. And she vowed a vow and said, O Lord of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your servant and remember me and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a son,
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then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life and no razor shall touch his head. And she continued praying before the Lord.
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Eli observed her mouth. Hannah was speaking in her heart. Only her lips moved and her voice was not heard. Therefore, Eli took her to be a drunken woman.
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And Eli said to her, how long will you go on being drunk? But your wine, put your wine away from you. But Hannah answered, no my lord i'm a woman troubled in spirit i have drunk neither wine nor strong drink but i've been pouring out my soul before the lord do not regard your servant as a worthless woman for all along i have been speaking out of my great anxiety and vexation Then Eli answered, go in peace and the God of Israel grant your petition that you have made to him.
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And she said, let your servant find favor in your eyes. Then the woman went her way and ate and her face was no longer sad. They rose early in the morning and worshiped before the Lord.
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Then they went back to their house at Ramah, and Elkanah knew Hannah, his wife, and the Lord remembered her. And in due time, Hannah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Samuel.
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For she said, i have asked for him from the Lord." Wow, what started to be a sad story turned out to be a glad story, didn't it? Well, let me break this message into two parts.
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The first one is survival in the wilderness of life. Maybe you could say, man, I know exactly what it feels like to be someone like Hannah.
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My home life It's not happy. It's very dysfunctional. Well, let me just point out some things that this mother was going through. She wasn't a mother yet, but I want you to to see if there's something in here that connects with where you are, because I want you to see what happened when she began to pour out her soul before the Lord.
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Well, first, the survival in the wilderness of life. What did it look like for her? Well, there was first pain, pain within this wife who had no little children.
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You know, we often speak of the pain of childbirth, But I'll tell you something, there is also pain in no childbirth. And Hannah was feeling that pain.
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Often people speak of the pain of having a child. But what about the pain of those who lose a child? Do you know someone that has lost a child? Perhaps they're at the same place emotionally where Hannah was.
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But what was going on whenever she was going through this pain without a child? Well, first there was faith in the sovereignty of God that we see in verses five and six.
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She didn't shut down. She kept going to worship. She wanted to work through, but also there were feelings about the absence of a child that was definitely there.
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You know, do you remember when David lost his son? Now his son Absalom, he was a grown man by this point, but it still was his son. And this father, David, King David, he grieved.
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He couldn't help but just say Absalom's name over and over when Absalom died. There's pain whenever someone loses a child or whenever someone is never given the joy of having a child.
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But let's look at something else about her experience in the wilderness of life. She also was hearing the precautions from that others were telling her.
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Others were warning her, you be careful when you go to that temple. there is The sons of Eli, they're bad men. You know, this these two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, if you were to read about them in chapter 2, verses 22 and 25, man, they would tell you these two guys, even though they were in temple, they were selfish.
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They were greedy. They were creepy. They were lecherous men. You know, it's hard whenever someone is trying to live for the Lord in a very lewd and lustful, lecherous society when their surroundings are like that.
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You know, it had probably spread among the women. Be careful. Don't let Hophni and Phinehas get anywhere near you. So I just thought, man, there are certain precautions for a woman.
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She needs to be careful when it comes to certain kinds of men. But there are also those provocations. Do you remember? i mean, back then, i guess they had more than one wife because Elkanah had two.
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His other wife, Peninnah, she was hard on Hannah. She was ah provoking her. You know, the provoks provocations within a family because someone uses their tongue to lash out with hurtful ah words, it can be hard to deal with.
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I know that often here in our country, we talk about gun control, but I wonder if scripture also talks about tongue control. It's serious. James 3 says that we should be careful if we are believers in the way we speak to other people, especially those within our own home.
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see She was in um enduring intense provocation. It said it was grievous. It was severe. You know, it was also intentional.
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it It definitely made her irritated and made her feel um miserable. And did you catch how incessant it was? It didn't seem to end.
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I mean, Penina just kept on and on. It was incessant year after year. And what was she provoking her about? Well, it was probably the one area that was the most sensitive area for this woman, for Hannah It was her infertility.
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And yet that's exactly where all those hurtful comments were being lashed against her ah by this lady named Penina. And it was right there in her own home.
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She couldn't run from it. It followed her around. But then there's also the problem of a believer. Whenever there's someone who knows that there is a God who trusts Him and believes in Him, but they're just sad.
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They just are of low spirits. And that's where Hannah was. Hannah was just sad. You know, in verse 7, it says she wept. And she not only wept, she could not eat.
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She would not eat. Verse 10 says she was deeply distressed. You know, some translations say she was having bitterness of soul. She wept bitterly. She wept, it says in some translations, in anguish.
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But she definitely was a woman, troubled in spirit, sorrowful in spirit is what it says in verse 15. She talks about in verse 16 how she had great anxiety and vexation.
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There are some translations besides the ESV that I'm reading from that say she had an abundance of complaint and grief. It was just heavy. Maybe I'm speaking to a lady right now and your heart is just heavy because you've either never had the joy of giving birth to a child or...
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Perhaps you did give birth, but your child is no more. I don't know what could have possibly been the cause of death for your child, but all I know is it can be heavy.
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And that's exactly where Hannah was. She had low spirits. But also, you know, you would think if I go to a place of worship, then the people are going to connect with me, encourage me, comfort me, and sort of, ah you know, uplift me.
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But that was not what happened. Whenever she went to worship, it's like the worst case scenario. She was judged and criticized and misunderstood completely.
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Do you remember what Eli accused her of? She's pouring out her heart and Eli says, I know you've been drinking, that's the problem. Wow. You know, it's a good lesson that we not stereotype visitors who attend our church.
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We could say, hey, I know you've come here for a wicked purpose. Maybe, but maybe they've come for a worshipful purpose. You know, Hebrews 10, 24 and 25 says that really our church should be a place where people come and they feel encouraged.
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They hear the gospel. I'm not saying that we soft pedal on sin. No, we should hold the standard steady and strong. But we should also make sure with that steady and strong standard, we also offer grace and mercy.
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We also offer compassion. But that's where I wanted to connect you with the resources that Hannah found. Because she took her pain to the Lord, because she poured it out to the Lord, she experienced revival.
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She went from just surviving all of that to actually enjoying the Lord's presence in her current condition and it led to a change in our circumstances.
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So I want you to next look not at the survival in the wilderness of life. Now, we looked at that closely enough. I want to close with some things about the revival, the revival in the land of promise.
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I believe some of these same things exist. can happen in your life. The first thing i don't want you to do, i don't want you to overlook your husband.
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Perhaps your husband loves you so much, and yet there's something else that's really weighing you down, and it's heavy on your heart. So I want you to think about the privilege of a wife with a loving husband.
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I'm not saying your husband's perfect. I'm not even claiming that Elkanah was perfect. But one thing I know is our text tells us that Elkanah loved Hannah so much.
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He even gave her a double portion. Have you ever overlooked what you have? Always looking sort of like that old saying, you know, the grass is greener on the other side.
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Have you ever seen any cattle reach their neck? and their head through a barb barb fence, and they're eating the grass just outside the fence? you know I'm thinking, is it worth it if you cut your neck you know trying to eat that grass out there?
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Let me tell you something. Psalm 8411 is a great verse for any any wife, any mother who is feeling like she is living in the have-nots.
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Psalm 8411 says, no good thing will he withhold from those who walk uprightly. You know, we can trust God that he can help us be content with whatever circumstances we are currently in.
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I think it's and think it's more than just chance that in Hebrews chapter 13, verses four and five, that it goes from kind consecration in marriage, talking about the marriage bed and how it's a holy place and we should protect it, to the very next verse in verse five goes from talking about purity in our lives to contentment in our lives.
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You remember, that's where David, he began to covet another man's wife, and that's where he got off. I wonder if God had already provided for David, you know, wives or a wife that would have taken care of all of his needs for intimacy and and oneness and emotional comfort and so forth.
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But he overlooked what he had and began to think, I believe what I don't have is what I need.
Maintaining Faith and Focus
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So that's one thing that could restore the joy to you is to think about what you have.
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um Maybe it's maybe let's say that you're thinking, well, I wish I had kids like their kids. Yeah, but think about the kids that you do have. Aren't they sweet?
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Haven't they been a blessing to you in some way? Well, let's move from the privilege of a wife with a loving husband to the prayer of a woman with a loaded heart.
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Remember us saying that you know her heart was really burdened and heavy? you know She had a heart filled with anguish.
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And yet, remember what Eli thought? Eli thought, no, you you're loaded with alcohol. But she wasn't loaded with alcohol. She was loaded ah with anguish.
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But you know what she had learned to do? Just like many years later, King David wrote in Psalm 55, 22, she learned to cast her cares, to cast her burdens on the Lord, and he would sustain her.
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It says in verse 15 of our text that she was pouring out her soul before the Lord. You know, Philippians 4 verses 6 and 7 tells us, don't worry about things.
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So what does it say next? Don't worry about things, but instead pray about everything. And when you're praying about everything, mix in thanksgiving and gratitude in there.
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You know, I believe if we would heed 1 Peter 5, 7, that says to us, cast your cares upon the Lord because he cares for you. If we could just remember that, I think it would make such a difference.
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You know, 1 Samuel 1, 9 tells us that at least Hannah... had the discipline to leave the party. She was at a dinner party, and I bet they were having a great time, but Hannah's heart was breaking.
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And so she went into a private place there in the temple, and privately, but passionately and persistently, you know what she did? She prayed. Have you ever considered praying about what it is that's pulling your heart down?
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Well, I just recommend that because it certainly was beneficial for Hannah, and I believe it'll be beneficial for you. And I want what's the best for you this Mother's Day.
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But let me move to a third thing that'll lead you into, well, let's say victory or revival or joy or peace, whatever. The peace within a believer with a leaning faith.
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Remember those songs, they're older songs, Learning Lean. Have you ever sang that song, I'm Learning to Lean? What about the song, Leaning on the Everlasting Arms?
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You know, those in the past, they knew something that we should say, Lord, I don't know what to do, but I'm going to lean on you. She prayed until she got a word.
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Do you remember what happened? Eli, when he realized how what a terrible mistake he had made, here's what he said to her, "'Go in peace, and the God of Israel grant your petition "'that you have made to him.' "'And she said, "'Let your servant find favor in your eyes.' "'And then the woman went her way and ate, "'and her face was no longer sad.' What made the difference?
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I'll tell you what made the difference. She got a word from God. She knew that God was gonna give her a child. It made all the difference. Even though it took time for that word to come to pass, you know, verse 20 says,
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And in due time, Hannah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Samuel, for she said, I've asked for him from the Lord. And so I just thought that was so incredible.
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But all the major decisions in my life, they've been made in prayer after God gave me a word through his word, his written word. So I encourage you, spend time in God's word, and it'll restore the peace.
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It'll also restore praise. You know, next notice the praise from a mother with a Lord-centered focus. Oh yeah. If you were to read chapter two, verses one through 10, man, this mother had a praise on her heart.
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She wrote a song of thanksgiving and praise. It's very similar to Luke chapter one, verses 46 to 55, where another mother named Mary mother of Jesus, where she also cut loose in a song and had a song that she was writing.
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But in that song that Hannah wrote, she contrasts being full versus being hungry, being dead versus being alive, being poor versus being rich.
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I'm not sure that her wealth changed and all of those kinds of things, but all I know is she said, I'm so happy because God's going to hear my prayer. And so chapter one, verses 20 through 28 makes it clear that Hannah did not see conception and birth as just luck or as coincidence.
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She knew God heard my prayer. You know, this mother was in revival because she was now focused on the Lord and not focused on, I gotta to get a child, I gotta get a child.
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So you had changed her focus. Why don't you put your focus on the Lord and praise Him? Even if he never gives you a child, I'm telling you, all of heaven knows this one thing.
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He's still worthy. He's still worthy to be praised. But then notice lastly, the pledge of a mother with a lending commitment. This mother says to the Lord something very, very important. You know what she says to him?
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She says, therefore, I've lent him to the Lord. As long as he lives, he is lent to the Lord and they worship the Lord there. You know, would you say that to the Lord? Would you surrender to the Lord and say, God, if you'll just entrust me with a child, I will definitely try my best to point that child toward you. That child, I'll pray for your will to be done in that child's life.
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I will support that child as that child tries to do whatever your will is for their lives. You know, in chapter two, verses 18 to 21, listen to these sweet verses of how this mother lived out that pledge.
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Samuel was ministering before the Lord, a boy clothed with a linen ephod, that's like a robe, and his mother used to make for him a little robe and take it to him each year.
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when she went up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice, then Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife and say, may the Lord give you children by this woman for the petition she asked of the Lord.
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So they would return to their home. Isn't that sweet? I mean, this lady went from being so sad to being so glad. What changed it all?
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I think it was that God focus. You know, why don't you put your focus upon the Lord and say, Lord, I want to put my focus on you.
Closing and Mother's Day Wishes
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Well, there was another lady that was in the wilderness named Pamela Salant.
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She was 28 years old She's a preschool teacher. In August of 2011, she fell from a 50-foot cliff once again over in Oregon in the wilderness.
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And you know what happened? She broke her leg, but she survived it. Three nights and four days out there by eating berries and grapes and caterpillars and bugs and slugs.
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She crawled to the river and found a rock that she could lay on until the helicopter arrived that found her and she was taken away and and she lived her life.
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But you know what? She refused to give up. What will give you the stamina not to give up if you're living in a very dysfunctional situation? you're in a dysfunctional family, do the same thing Hannah did.
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She didn't give up because she turned it over to the Lord. Let's do that now together. Lord, I don't know what my friends are facing, but I know that you're up for the challenge. So would you bless them?
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Give every mother a sweet, happy Mother's Day and bless them as they live for you. In Jesus' name we pray, amen. Thank you so much, friends.
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Those of you who are mothers, you have a blessed Mother's Day. Thanks again for
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