The Sermon Faithful in Difficult Times by David McGee
May 11, 2014
Faithful in Difficult Times (32:59)
Referenced Scriptures: 1 Samuel 1:1-20; 1 Samuel 2:1-10
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1 Samuel 1:1-20
1) Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim, of the hill-country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite:
2) and he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
3) This man went up out of his city from year to year to worship and to sacrifice to Yahweh of Hosts in Shiloh. The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests to Yahweh, were there.
4) When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:
5) but to Hannah he gave a double portion; for he loved Hannah, but Yahweh had shut up her womb.
6) Her rival provoked her sore, to make her fret, because Yahweh had shut up her womb.
7) [as] he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of Yahweh, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.
8) Elkanah her husband said to her, Hannah, why weep you? and why don‘t you eat? and why is your heart grieved? am I not better to you than ten sons?
9) So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest was sitting on his seat by the door-post of the temple of Yahweh.
10) She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, and wept sore.
11) She vowed a vow, and said, Yahweh of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your handmaid, and remember me, and not forget your handmaid, but will give to your handmaid a man-child, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come on his head.
12) It happened, as she continued praying before Yahweh, that Eli marked her mouth.
13) Now Hannah, she spoke in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.
14) Eli said to her, How long will you be drunken? put away your wine from you.
15) Hannah answered, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I poured out my soul before Yahweh.
16) Don‘t count your handmaid for a wicked woman; for out of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation have I spoken hitherto.
17) Then Eli answered, Go in peace; and the God of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of him.
18) She said, Let your handmaid find favor in your sight. So the woman went her way, and ate; and her facial expression wasn‘t sad any more.
19) They rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before Yahweh, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and Yahweh remembered her.
20) It happened, when the time was come about, that Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel, [saying], Because I have asked him of Yahweh.
1 Samuel 2:1-10
1) Hannah prayed, and said: My heart exults in Yahweh; My horn is exalted in Yahweh; My mouth is enlarged over my enemies; Because I rejoice in your salvation.
2) There is none holy as Yahweh; For there is none besides you, Neither is there any rock like our God.
3) Talk no more so exceeding proudly; Don‘t let arrogance come out of your mouth; For Yahweh is a God of knowledge, By him actions are weighed.
4) The bows of the mighty men are broken; Those who stumbled are girded with strength.
5) Those who were full have hired out themselves for bread; Those who were hungry have ceased [to hunger]: Yes, the barren has borne seven; She who has many children languishes.
6) Yahweh kills, and makes alive: He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.
7) Yahweh makes poor, and makes rich: He brings low, he also lifts up.
8) He raises up the poor out of the dust, He lifts up the needy from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, Inherit the throne of glory: For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh‘s, He has set the world on them.
9) He will keep the feet of his holy ones; But the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; For by strength shall no man prevail.
10) Those who strive with Yahweh shall be broken to pieces; Against them will he thunder in the sky: Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth; He will give strength to his king, Exalt the horn of his anointed.
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Then we are looking at Hannah and Zimmerman to look at her life is something that perhaps we can see is our special occasions, my mother always would tell me what what did you preach about on Mother's Day and then she would always tell all I know Mum what did you want me to say him and I should always ask a question like and there was a summer was Jack Shafer by those individuals from years ago when she was a young mother priest 's sermon on not mother of mine, and it's it. It's in the book and I I even when she was here. I spoke on it, but it wasn't anything is good as Jack Hayford, and also so. But, you know, we always have those memories of mothers. They are those memories of of what a Mother's Day sermon should be. I have ever one lady said was a long time ago. She said I hate when the Doolittle sermons on Mother's Day. I knows what she says I can measure up. There is no think that you say that and a half I okay on sorry and I'll so the challenge is to present all that which is important and that which is part of our life then and also to challenge us in our and our lives that we are part one examining what God has given to us so let's look at the first Samuel chapter one and were reading through to verse twenty and the message Bible and that this is about Hannah. There once was a man who lived in rain lithium. He was descended from the old Zephyr night family. In the Ephraim Hills. His name was Al Qaeda he was connected with the zero five family from a friend, though, through his father Jerome home and his grandfather, Eli, who at his great-grandfather, tofu, he had to steal lives of first Lieutenant and the second was the nine nine, had children, Hannah did not ever hear this man went with from his hometown up to Shiloh to worship and offer a sacrifice to the god of the Angel armies. In his two sons, half nine and the knee. Now, how for Nina home. I served as a priest of God. There went out the okay enough sacrifice you pass blessings from the sacrificial meal around to his wife cannot deny off and her children, but he always gave a special generous helping to Hannah because he loved her so much because God had not given her children by her rival wife taunted her truly run again in and never letting her forget that God had not given her children. This went on year after year. Every time she went to the sanctuary of God. She could expect to be taunted. Hannah was reduced to tears and had no appetite. Her husband. Okay, enough said all Hannah, why are you crying wire to eating are and why are you so upset am I not more words are am I not a more worth to you than ten sons so Hannah, a geek. Then she pulled herself together slipped away quietly and enter the sanctuary, the priest Eli was on duty at the entrance of God 's temple in the customary seat crushed in soul Hannah prayed to God and cried and cried inconsolably. Then she made well hello, God of the Angel armies. If you'll take a good hard look at my pain if you're quite neglecting me and go until action for me by giving me a son. All give him completely unreservedly to you. I'll set him apart for a life of holy discipline. It so happened that as she continued to pray before God. Watching her closely and I was praying in her heart silently, her lips moved, but no sound was heard Eli jump to the conclusion that she was drunk. He approached her and said you are drunk along you plan to keep this up sober up woman and I said oh no sir, please. I'm a woman am hard use. I haven't been drinking. Not a drop of wine or beer. The only thing I've been pouring out is my heart pouring it out to God. Don't for a minute think, babbling, it's because I'm so desperately unhappy and in such pain that I stayed here so long. Eli answered her go in peace and may the God of Israel give you what you have asked of him think well of me and pray for me. She said, and went her way. Then she ate heartily, her face radiant up before dawn. They worship God, and returned home to Raima out the slept with hanging up his wife and God began making a necessary Raymond arrangements in response to what she had asked, and before the year was out enough and I usually had conceived and given birth to a son she named him Samuel, explaining I asked God for him. So this is the story of Hannah, and it was a difficult time a difficult time for her because in being custom of Israel. If you do not have a child. It meant that God had cursed you, basically, and that you are not a good person because you are not unable to bear children, and so had I was not able to have a child and her husband that our help now had another wife and you would say, well, whenever they went up to the Temple, one of the Shiloh to worship. It was there that she does this second wife always badgered her while you would say what talking to people live together in the same community, not badger each other while if you know that nomad community. They would have a wife and have a ten for each life. So if whenever we were in Israel. We were, we were driving down the road and there was this guy. He had three cats, and then they can tour guide says he pretends his three wives, so each of the wives had their own time and if you going to the cities they have stories in their and their houses and each floor mats and a different wife so and then you if you look at the buildings they have all these building blocks you know these of reinforcement rods sticking out of the roof. They were waiting for another wife that was going on, and so that stuff you have these pictures of Israel and the Middle East venue. You see, there's like two or three story house and it looks incomplete on top in all the houses among all them that were incomplete because they are waiting for another wife when we were in the traveling and Petra, we know that the agency of Petra and elsewhere meeting is carved out of the on the stone. Out of the side of the hills and the new movie search for the holy Grail with the what's his name the know while sparking all either. Whatever his name is. Here's the layout that that that meant that treasury scene where he goes in and he goes back to get the railing at the docking. Everybody gets killed when side. That's the that's Patrick and it's it's quite quite a place but anyhow it was in the Asia day we were there and that remote area and then there was this merchant. I mean the guy was probably twenty seven years old looked like twenty some years old and he was selling things there and any samadhi need to tell us these goods, so we needed to buy them because he needed a needed money for his family and Anna Creswell, mom, I am a case you have aces will have five wives as if I'm why don't I get twenty three years old and five wives and mommy children. It's like okay what assistance of Soriano out now here out. Now the husband. He had two wives and all pending and enough the second wife was always badgering the first one but only whenever they went to worship because it two different tenants so they probably didn't have much interaction whenever they weren't going to worship. But whenever they would go to Shiloh. They would go to the Temple at Shiloh, and it was there on the trip that out, though, was taking his two wives, and Hannah was berated belittles badgered by the name and enough because she didn't have any children, so all along the strip and every time. Every year they were both more so you can imagine that this would be this one be a time to look forward to and I would have to make Trevor, she would find herself just belittled and battered by the second wife while in hell can help that they need the husband yell and any redness and and now is just inferring. I imagine that some sometimes women so you know what you just don't understand any and I know it. Many ladies ever said about her husband 's brother don't raise your hand that they just don't understand now that I got a clue while help. Now the husband says Hannah, why are you weeping why don't you eat larger downhearted. I mean more to you than ten sons, yes sheesh. As you let me children. But it's you I love ignore her taunts you know when I better do you attend lying in all, it just don't get it. Husband. You just don't get it. So here she is, and she's lying to have a child in many years. Going through this torment and his word torture, but had did not harden her heart and because things were going wrong things and happen the way that she wanted them to happen. She didn't harden her heart, nor did she become bitter against the other lady. I guess the other wife. She was able to keep those things in check, and able to keep our our eyes focus on what she wanted. She wanted a son. She wanted a son from her husband and hurt to have their own child, and she kept her focus on what she wanted, not on the hardship and I think of it that is so important in our lives that we don't become distracted by the hurts and the pains of life, but we can't focus on what we want and what we desire and had enough. She was unable to make her husband understand that that it wasn't you know it wasn't was his fault, it wasn't that it was her fault, it was just that she wanted to have a son. She wanted to have a child and so the husband 's attempt to comfort her. Didn't go very far but we find that when she goes to Washington. She has because she stays focused on what her name is and what her desires it. She also knows that God is the one who gives her hope. This is the challenge for all of us, and that no matter what the desires of the problems are our hope is in God we must maintain the correct attitude about ourselves and about the relationships and about what's happening because we need to know that God is our answer and our hope. So when had I goes to the Temple whenever she goes there to worship. She's waving and she's very upset. She's very distraught coworker. She felt with her sorrow. She goes to the Temple. She goes to God. And here she has started before God. Now her husband is is sympathetic but he doesn't understand all the new top menu. Then you put on top of that the printer doesn't even understand the OMB may I not understand everything is just getting a mini Linux race misunderstood her. It is understood the prayer misunderstood the intention, so here is Hannah and she's weeping into praying at her lips are moving, but she's not making a sound and in her and her spirit she saying all Lord Almighty, if you will all they look upon your severance misery and remember me and not forget your servant, but give her a son, then I will give him to the Lord for all the days of his life and no razor will ever be used on his head so here, she has crushed insole but there's something else going on here that her desire to have a son also aligned with God 's desire to give his nation a profit and sometimes we look at our life and we look at our desires and we would say while you know whom I know this isn't that important. This is God knows the desires of our heart and whatever we are not allowing ourselves to be crushed because our prayers are not answered. We may also recognize that God has a desire to give to loss the exact same thing that we desire and the children come together. The children come together and so here is Hannah praying for a child trying for a son, and also God needs to raise up a prophet in the land because the praise and his two sons that are not very good. They're not. They're not good guys. His sons are, are you out there. Just, wow. Crazy, crazy guys in the. Anyhow, they're going to be punished later on in their life. Anyhow, for all their sins because they they they abuse their position in that in the Temple. They abuse all that and they abuse the laws of God, and anyhow, that's a different story. So, the priest Eli whenever he saw this woman praying that he was used to people coming to the temple, and he was used to people can't have no overdoing it there off on vacation there here to worship and I get consumed with their wine in their carrying on, and he was used as they are those types of things, and so watching Hannah from his chair. He assumed that as ladies drunk Jays up there. She's she's praying and Susan drunk. Well, her lips moved, but she was not saying anything, and she was silent in our prior God knows our prayers that we don't always have to save them that God has a way of understanding our prayers and their focused their direct and are exactly too many. How is God going to answer what you know God. I would like to have this odd like that. That is like the Sears catalog at Christmas. You know don't have those anymore, but the wish books of all the things on sale. What did you want the best of God gives me one of these but now God is saying, be specific aware specific. She said that she made her prayer to God. How long and how long will be Lord and so Eli the priest saying you know what this ladies drunk. She needs to get on the Temple by: sober up while a lot being one like her in a long time because she was so distraught and her prayers. Now this is this is a time in which we cry out to God. Whenever our needs are so great and the problems are so overwhelming and people don't understand the people there. There are those in this case is a husband who doesn't understand her. There is a second wife, who constantly torments her and belittles her and she has no refuge except for ten sources in our tent and went home alone. She has no children, year after year. She continues in his flight, and so it is so severe she doesn't become bitter and try and plot to kill the other wife and take one of her kids. She focuses on God, and cries out, we before the Lord in agony of soul and spirit their God, hear my prayer. God I this is my prayer. This is my need, God, I want you to answer my prayer, but in the same time God has a desire to bless her and also bless the nation of Israel with a profit and the two needs come together and as she pours out her heart. God is she's she's accused of being drunk and she says I'm a woman who is deeply troubled, I have not been drinking wine or beer. So she's kind reproves Eli help but doesn't tell him off. He respects his position, but she lets them know what's going on. I'm pouring out my soul to God, I'm pouring out my soul to God, if there is something in our lives that is so important is that we take the time to know how we hurt and for our soul out to God allow that when we hurt emotionally, physically, spiritually when we hurt. Take those needs to God pour out our soul to God. Don't become angry. Don't become better don't know blow up. And you know know what is it blow up low often something or other. But I have thought through the hatchet and brought to the Lord in prayer that when we feel like were going to blow up and blow off on somebody, don't do that go to the Lord in prayer. Keep the right perspective and for out your heart to God, and do not take your sermon is a wicked woman, I have been praying here out of my great anguish and grief don't count me wicked now I was listening on the radio this morning I had the an interview with Amy Grant member Amy Grant, so you know, I mean wrap. She is a local artist that artist years ago for in our time. My time. But anyhow she was an artist and now she was and she had this interview, and I thought it was. I was looking, as I was writing this, and thinking about it. I was in him and basically to contacts in the sense of here we have this lady of rule three thousand years ago. Lesson three thousand and she needs pouring out her heart to God, and that I was in trouble. How is that relevant to note loss today what here's Amy Grant, she's a recording artist Jesus. I know I have a limited toolkit. So here's this lady that is just a fantastic singer, and she's been a recording artist for thirty four years and she says I have a limited toolkit as a mother she was saying this. I have a limited toolkit. I work full time I traveled constantly if there was a hurricane if she was in a group are the setting with her and her children. She said if there was a hurricane somewhere in the middle of it was my child and she said that because of her being an artsy person insane. That's my artsy people and anybody know artsy people with artsy people have it, they operate on a different side of their brain and I know that if you have people that are artists. You know they they just they just don't function on the same wavelength, and that's the cause of their artsy, their creativity to the creativity while she Amy Grant said that she said my creativity in the children's creativity is like I wanted them to explore and Ellen meant to do this and she says he told her kids if you can survive me, you can survive anything that, and pain. This was one of these she said to her bottom learning mothering skills. She says so she was saying this to her children must make some high contact. Let's tell each other we love us love each other and let's see if we can find some clean underwear and see what happens for the day, L M, and I was thinking that that's the kind of woman that that Hana is she just kind of this lady that she should once she was to have a child and she was a child that you can dedicate to God, but you also have the emotions like this super spiritual person that you know that the earth moves in this booming voices, all she has to go on is the prophet being appraised, who mistakenly says to her are you drunk, and when he she tells him what's on her heart. He says to her, he blesses her. May God of Israel grant your request. Here's a guy who accuses her being drunk, and when he hears the truth. He says make God bless your request. So here I am. Here you are all of you ladies and men, all of you got people and in your heart. Stay focused on your request. What is the request that you would cry out and weep before God, that you desire and you know what are coming with a full toolkit now, and will have it all together but we have hope, and along comes this preacher who as a man of God because God has called me to this place. And God is said, whatever you bind in heaven bound on earth. Whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. My prayer is made, the God of Israel grant your request may the God of Israel grant your request is not an earthquake is not lightning. It's the cry of your heart going out to God and God God 's heart media knowing that there was a need, and the tools you are to coming together. You and God are coming together in this moment and hearing the voice of God which says Magog grant your request down, Hannah here. It doesn't say that the earth shook. She just left the Temple was a smile on her face. She went home back to the tent back to where her in her husband in the and the antagonists were she ate her meal and she had a radiant face. She knew it was going to be okay and not only was it okay. She had a son and his name was Samuel and Samuel was the priest, who anointed King Saul is a priest who is profit rather than anointed King David and he is a prophet that was over Israel for a number of years. The direct of the nation and it was her need God need coming together and year after year she returned to the sheet. She dedicated Samuel and when he was waiting whatever age that is, he sheets or can to Eli and gave him to God and Eli raised her child Samuel in the in the in the Temple and the Temple of God. Now if you and I were going to take our child and leave them with someone when the life will get his two kids they are no their mess, but she made a promise she didn't renege on it. She went on with it and her son was Samuel and every year she returned, and she brought Samuel new clothes for him to wear, and every year. Promise or ask God 's blessing upon her and she had many children after the but you see the importance of where we are at what our needs are and to bring our needs before God, and how the God who make a difference in the life and then we went down and tell them to come up and I want. I want to read something else here. This is chapter two okay and this is Hannah Reid and Mrs. had a speaking I'm bursting out with good news okay, this is not the lady was weeping and crying at the altar. This is afterwards after she has after she's had received this promise, and after she's been in this place of misery for all these years. She says I'm bursting with good news. I'm walking on air of the season am walking on sunshine song I'm walking on air every unlocking on-air. I'm laughing at my rivals looking as she goes. I'm walking on unlocking on IR. I'm laughing in my rivals on dancing my salvation. Nothing and no one is holy like God, no walk mountain like our God don't dare talk pretension was sleazy, says not a word of boasting ever. For God knows what's going on. He takes the measure of everything that happens, the weapons of the strong are smashed to pieces while the week are infused with fresh strength. The welfare are not are out begging in the streets are cross while the hungry are getting second helpings. The barren woman has a house full of children. While the minor map mother of many is the rat God brings death and God brings life brings down to the grave, and raises up, God brings poverty, God brings well few hours. He also lives up why she thought she'd just like she's got a whole perspective on life. She never had before. Amen right half is our little one who can distribute a man on that fire bought the lowlands, K, so we got the picture saying I yell out now. Lavinia saw this final at the ladies to come on the ladies of the church, young and old, very little, very large about a month now, ladies, large- I'm in large and age, not large in size. Sorry ladies Bible. They knows Hillary your men will do that but at run. I dare you to your Jimmy flowers Bob not have any flowers will so a mother 's heart is often the harbor of great care and love for children for others for one another and the ladies young by smiling to me that so that anyhow I want to say thank you and God has blessed you, God has blessed us by you being here. Okay, I'll look at me, God has blessed us by you being here, a man named the and so we got our little ones running and that's the best thing going. So you have before you know some flowers there are gifts to you, but make that announcement. You can always say the same something very nice for the city site is okay to have a smooth out your debate. But you see how even as young that we notice how cute and clean babies are. And those are the things inside of you that are your mother 's heart that someday you will be, and it's just part of something very special, and that you are very special. Each of you before I think I read that you know should I live to be old enough to marry, have perform the ceremony for her and her husband and all the good things that will happen, all wrapped up in this little package, all the potential within the little package just gotten a little bigger package right now in the real thing. I have on another better shutdown L thank you thank you thank you thank you. God bless you and before you is a flower is our gift to you and father, thank you for your blessings. Thank you for each of the ladies into the children. We just ask your blessing and guidance upon us that the desires of our hearts, Lord, we will bring to you in God we trust you to make a difference. Amen, amenThen we are looking at Hannah and Zimmerman to look at her life is something that perhaps we can see is our special occasions, my mother always would tell me what what did you preach about on Mother's Day and then she would always tell all I know Mum what did you want me to say him and I should always ask a question like and there was a summer was Jack Shafer by those individuals from years ago when she was a young mother priest 's sermon on not mother of mine, and it's it. It's in the book and I I even when she was here. I spoke on it, but it wasn't anything is good as Jack Hayford, and also so. But, you know, we always have those memories of mothers. They are those memories of of what a Mother's Day sermon should be. I have ever one lady said was a long time ago. She said I hate when the Doolittle sermons on Mother's Day. I knows what she says I can measure up. There is no think that you say that and a half I okay on sorry and I'll so the challenge is to present all that which is important and that which is part of our life then and also to challenge us in our and our lives that we are part one examining what God has given to us so let's look at the first Samuel chapter one and were reading through to verse twenty and the message Bible and that this is about Hannah. There once was a man who lived in rain lithium. He was descended from the old Zephyr night family. In the Ephraim Hills. His name was Al Qaeda he was connected with the zero five family from a friend, though, through his father Jerome home and his grandfather, Eli, who at his great-grandfather, tofu, he had to steal lives of first Lieutenant and the second was the nine nine, had children, Hannah did not ever hear this man went with from his hometown up to Shiloh to worship and offer a sacrifice to the god of the Angel armies. In his two sons, half nine and the knee. Now, how for Nina home. I served as a priest of God. There went out the okay enough sacrifice you pass blessings from the sacrificial meal around to his wife cannot deny off and her children, but he always gave a special generous helping to Hannah because he loved her so much because God had not given her children by her rival wife taunted her truly run again in and never letting her forget that God had not given her children. This went on year after year. Every time she went to the sanctuary of God. She could expect to be taunted. Hannah was reduced to tears and had no appetite. Her husband. Okay, enough said all Hannah, why are you crying wire to eating are and why are you so upset am I not more words are am I not a more worth to you than ten sons so Hannah, a geek. Then she pulled herself together slipped away quietly and enter the sanctuary, the priest Eli was on duty at the entrance of God 's temple in the customary seat crushed in soul Hannah prayed to God and cried and cried inconsolably. Then she made well hello, God of the Angel armies. If you'll take a good hard look at my pain if you're quite neglecting me and go until action for me by giving me a son. All give him completely unreservedly to you. I'll set him apart for a life of holy discipline. It so happened that as she continued to pray before God. Watching her closely and I was praying in her heart silently, her lips moved, but no sound was heard Eli jump to the conclusion that she was drunk. He approached her and said you are drunk along you plan to keep this up sober up woman and I said oh no sir, please. I'm a woman am hard use. I haven't been drinking. Not a drop of wine or beer. The only thing I've been pouring out is my heart pouring it out to God. Don't for a minute think, babbling, it's because I'm so desperately unhappy and in such pain that I stayed here so long. Eli answered her go in peace and may the God of Israel give you what you have asked of him think well of me and pray for me. She said, and went her way. Then she ate heartily, her face radiant up before dawn. They worship God, and returned home to Raima out the slept with hanging up his wife and God began making a necessary Raymond arrangements in response to what she had asked, and before the year was out enough and I usually had conceived and given birth to a son she named him Samuel, explaining I asked God for him. So this is the story of Hannah, and it was a difficult time a difficult time for her because in being custom of Israel. If you do not have a child. It meant that God had cursed you, basically, and that you are not a good person because you are not unable to bear children, and so had I was not able to have a child and her husband that our help now had another wife and you would say, well, whenever they went up to the Temple, one of the Shiloh to worship. It was there that she does this second wife always badgered her while you would say what talking to people live together in the same community, not badger each other while if you know that nomad community. They would have a wife and have a ten for each life. So if whenever we were in Israel. We were, we were driving down the road and there was this guy. He had three cats, and then they can tour guide says he pretends his three wives, so each of the wives had their own time and if you going to the cities they have stories in their and their houses and each floor mats and a different wife so and then you if you look at the buildings they have all these building blocks you know these of reinforcement rods sticking out of the roof. They were waiting for another wife that was going on, and so that stuff you have these pictures of Israel and the Middle East venue. You see, there's like two or three story house and it looks incomplete on top in all the houses among all them that were incomplete because they are waiting for another wife when we were in the traveling and Petra, we know that the agency of Petra and elsewhere meeting is carved out of the on the stone. Out of the side of the hills and the new movie search for the holy Grail with the what's his name the know while sparking all either. Whatever his name is. Here's the layout that that that meant that treasury scene where he goes in and he goes back to get the railing at the docking. Everybody gets killed when side. That's the that's Patrick and it's it's quite quite a place but anyhow it was in the Asia day we were there and that remote area and then there was this merchant. I mean the guy was probably twenty seven years old looked like twenty some years old and he was selling things there and any samadhi need to tell us these goods, so we needed to buy them because he needed a needed money for his family and Anna Creswell, mom, I am a case you have aces will have five wives as if I'm why don't I get twenty three years old and five wives and mommy children. It's like okay what assistance of Soriano out now here out. Now the husband. He had two wives and all pending and enough the second wife was always badgering the first one but only whenever they went to worship because it two different tenants so they probably didn't have much interaction whenever they weren't going to worship. But whenever they would go to Shiloh. They would go to the Temple at Shiloh, and it was there on the trip that out, though, was taking his two wives, and Hannah was berated belittles badgered by the name and enough because she didn't have any children, so all along the strip and every time. Every year they were both more so you can imagine that this would be this one be a time to look forward to and I would have to make Trevor, she would find herself just belittled and battered by the second wife while in hell can help that they need the husband yell and any redness and and now is just inferring. I imagine that some sometimes women so you know what you just don't understand any and I know it. Many ladies ever said about her husband 's brother don't raise your hand that they just don't understand now that I got a clue while help. Now the husband says Hannah, why are you weeping why don't you eat larger downhearted. I mean more to you than ten sons, yes sheesh. As you let me children. But it's you I love ignore her taunts you know when I better do you attend lying in all, it just don't get it. Husband. You just don't get it. So here she is, and she's lying to have a child in many years. Going through this torment and his word torture, but had did not harden her heart and because things were going wrong things and happen the way that she wanted them to happen. She didn't harden her heart, nor did she become bitter against the other lady. I guess the other wife. She was able to keep those things in check, and able to keep our our eyes focus on what she wanted. She wanted a son. She wanted a son from her husband and hurt to have their own child, and she kept her focus on what she wanted, not on the hardship and I think of it that is so important in our lives that we don't become distracted by the hurts and the pains of life, but we can't focus on what we want and what we desire and had enough. She was unable to make her husband understand that that it wasn't you know it wasn't was his fault, it wasn't that it was her fault, it was just that she wanted to have a son. She wanted to have a child and so the husband 's attempt to comfort her. Didn't go very far but we find that when she goes to Washington. She has because she stays focused on what her name is and what her desires it. She also knows that God is the one who gives her hope. This is the challenge for all of us, and that no matter what the desires of the problems are our hope is in God we must maintain the correct attitude about ourselves and about the relationships and about what's happening because we need to know that God is our answer and our hope. So when had I goes to the Temple whenever she goes there to worship. She's waving and she's very upset. She's very distraught coworker. She felt with her sorrow. She goes to the Temple. She goes to God. And here she has started before God. Now her husband is is sympathetic but he doesn't understand all the new top menu. Then you put on top of that the printer doesn't even understand the OMB may I not understand everything is just getting a mini Linux race misunderstood her. It is understood the prayer misunderstood the intention, so here is Hannah and she's weeping into praying at her lips are moving, but she's not making a sound and in her and her spirit she saying all Lord Almighty, if you will all they look upon your severance misery and remember me and not forget your servant, but give her a son, then I will give him to the Lord for all the days of his life and no razor will ever be used on his head so here, she has crushed insole but there's something else going on here that her desire to have a son also aligned with God 's desire to give his nation a profit and sometimes we look at our life and we look at our desires and we would say while you know whom I know this isn't that important. This is God knows the desires of our heart and whatever we are not allowing ourselves to be crushed because our prayers are not answered. We may also recognize that God has a desire to give to loss the exact same thing that we desire and the children come together. The children come together and so here is Hannah praying for a child trying for a son, and also God needs to raise up a prophet in the land because the praise and his two sons that are not very good. They're not. They're not good guys. His sons are, are you out there. Just, wow. Crazy, crazy guys in the. Anyhow, they're going to be punished later on in their life. Anyhow, for all their sins because they they they abuse their position in that in the Temple. They abuse all that and they abuse the laws of God, and anyhow, that's a different story. So, the priest Eli whenever he saw this woman praying that he was used to people coming to the temple, and he was used to people can't have no overdoing it there off on vacation there here to worship and I get consumed with their wine in their carrying on, and he was used as they are those types of things, and so watching Hannah from his chair. He assumed that as ladies drunk Jays up there. She's she's praying and Susan drunk. Well, her lips moved, but she was not saying anything, and she was silent in our prior God knows our prayers that we don't always have to save them that God has a way of understanding our prayers and their focused their direct and are exactly too many. How is God going to answer what you know God. I would like to have this odd like that. That is like the Sears catalog at Christmas. You know don't have those anymore, but the wish books of all the things on sale. What did you want the best of God gives me one of these but now God is saying, be specific aware specific. She said that she made her prayer to God. How long and how long will be Lord and so Eli the priest saying you know what this ladies drunk. She needs to get on the Temple by: sober up while a lot being one like her in a long time because she was so distraught and her prayers. Now this is this is a time in which we cry out to God. Whenever our needs are so great and the problems are so overwhelming and people don't understand the people there. There are those in this case is a husband who doesn't understand her. There is a second wife, who constantly torments her and belittles her and she has no refuge except for ten sources in our tent and went home alone. She has no children, year after year. She continues in his flight, and so it is so severe she doesn't become bitter and try and plot to kill the other wife and take one of her kids. She focuses on God, and cries out, we before the Lord in agony of soul and spirit their God, hear my prayer. God I this is my prayer. This is my need, God, I want you to answer my prayer, but in the same time God has a desire to bless her and also bless the nation of Israel with a profit and the two needs come together and as she pours out her heart. God is she's she's accused of being drunk and she says I'm a woman who is deeply troubled, I have not been drinking wine or beer. So she's kind reproves Eli help but doesn't tell him off. He respects his position, but she lets them know what's going on. I'm pouring out my soul to God, I'm pouring out my soul to God, if there is something in our lives that is so important is that we take the time to know how we hurt and for our soul out to God allow that when we hurt emotionally, physically, spiritually when we hurt. Take those needs to God pour out our soul to God. Don't become angry. Don't become better don't know blow up. And you know know what is it blow up low often something or other. But I have thought through the hatchet and brought to the Lord in prayer that when we feel like were going to blow up and blow off on somebody, don't do that go to the Lord in prayer. Keep the right perspective and for out your heart to God, and do not take your sermon is a wicked woman, I have been praying here out of my great anguish and grief don't count me wicked now I was listening on the radio this morning I had the an interview with Amy Grant member Amy Grant, so you know, I mean wrap. She is a local artist that artist years ago for in our time. My time. But anyhow she was an artist and now she was and she had this interview, and I thought it was. I was looking, as I was writing this, and thinking about it. I was in him and basically to contacts in the sense of here we have this lady of rule three thousand years ago. Lesson three thousand and she needs pouring out her heart to God, and that I was in trouble. How is that relevant to note loss today what here's Amy Grant, she's a recording artist Jesus. I know I have a limited toolkit. So here's this lady that is just a fantastic singer, and she's been a recording artist for thirty four years and she says I have a limited toolkit as a mother she was saying this. I have a limited toolkit. I work full time I traveled constantly if there was a hurricane if she was in a group are the setting with her and her children. She said if there was a hurricane somewhere in the middle of it was my child and she said that because of her being an artsy person insane. That's my artsy people and anybody know artsy people with artsy people have it, they operate on a different side of their brain and I know that if you have people that are artists. You know they they just they just don't function on the same wavelength, and that's the cause of their artsy, their creativity to the creativity while she Amy Grant said that she said my creativity in the children's creativity is like I wanted them to explore and Ellen meant to do this and she says he told her kids if you can survive me, you can survive anything that, and pain. This was one of these she said to her bottom learning mothering skills. She says so she was saying this to her children must make some high contact. Let's tell each other we love us love each other and let's see if we can find some clean underwear and see what happens for the day, L M, and I was thinking that that's the kind of woman that that Hana is she just kind of this lady that she should once she was to have a child and she was a child that you can dedicate to God, but you also have the emotions like this super spiritual person that you know that the earth moves in this booming voices, all she has to go on is the prophet being appraised, who mistakenly says to her are you drunk, and when he she tells him what's on her heart. He says to her, he blesses her. May God of Israel grant your request. Here's a guy who accuses her being drunk, and when he hears the truth. He says make God bless your request. So here I am. Here you are all of you ladies and men, all of you got people and in your heart. Stay focused on your request. What is the request that you would cry out and weep before God, that you desire and you know what are coming with a full toolkit now, and will have it all together but we have hope, and along comes this preacher who as a man of God because God has called me to this place. And God is said, whatever you bind in heaven bound on earth. Whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. My prayer is made, the God of Israel grant your request may the God of Israel grant your request is not an earthquake is not lightning. It's the cry of your heart going out to God and God God 's heart media knowing that there was a need, and the tools you are to coming together. You and God are coming together in this moment and hearing the voice of God which says Magog grant your request down, Hannah here. It doesn't say that the earth shook. She just left the Temple was a smile on her face. She went home back to the tent back to where her in her husband in the and the antagonists were she ate her meal and she had a radiant face. She knew it was going to be okay and not only was it okay. She had a son and his name was Samuel and Samuel was the priest, who anointed King Saul is a priest who is profit rather than anointed King David and he is a prophet that was over Israel for a number of years. The direct of the nation and it was her need God need coming together and year after year she returned to the sheet. She dedicated Samuel and when he was waiting whatever age that is, he sheets or can to Eli and gave him to God and Eli raised her child Samuel in the in the in the Temple and the Temple of God. Now if you and I were going to take our child and leave them with someone when the life will get his two kids they are no their mess, but she made a promise she didn't renege on it. She went on with it and her son was Samuel and every year she returned, and she brought Samuel new clothes for him to wear, and every year. Promise or ask God 's blessing upon her and she had many children after the but you see the importance of where we are at what our needs are and to bring our needs before God, and how the God who make a difference in the life and then we went down and tell them to come up and I want. I want to read something else here. This is chapter two okay and this is Hannah Reid and Mrs. had a speaking I'm bursting out with good news okay, this is not the lady was weeping and crying at the altar. This is afterwards after she has after she's had received this promise, and after she's been in this place of misery for all these years. She says I'm bursting with good news. I'm walking on air of the season am walking on sunshine song I'm walking on air every unlocking on-air. I'm laughing at my rivals looking as she goes. I'm walking on unlocking on IR. I'm laughing in my rivals on dancing my salvation. Nothing and no one is holy like God, no walk mountain like our God don't dare talk pretension was sleazy, says not a word of boasting ever. For God knows what's going on. He takes the measure of everything that happens, the weapons of the strong are smashed to pieces while the week are infused with fresh strength. The welfare are not are out begging in the streets are cross while the hungry are getting second helpings. The barren woman has a house full of children. While the minor map mother of many is the rat God brings death and God brings life brings down to the grave, and raises up, God brings poverty, God brings well few hours. He also lives up why she thought she'd just like she's got a whole perspective on life. She never had before. Amen right half is our little one who can distribute a man on that fire bought the lowlands, K, so we got the picture saying I yell out now. Lavinia saw this final at the ladies to come on the ladies of the church, young and old, very little, very large about a month now, ladies, large- I'm in large and age, not large in size. Sorry ladies Bible. They knows Hillary your men will do that but at run. I dare you to your Jimmy flowers Bob not have any flowers will so a mother 's heart is often the harbor of great care and love for children for others for one another and the ladies young by smiling to me that so that anyhow I want to say thank you and God has blessed you, God has blessed us by you being here. Okay, I'll look at me, God has blessed us by you being here, a man named the and so we got our little ones running and that's the best thing going. So you have before you know some flowers there are gifts to you, but make that announcement. You can always say the same something very nice for the city site is okay to have a smooth out your debate. But you see how even as young that we notice how cute and clean babies are. And those are the things inside of you that are your mother 's heart that someday you will be, and it's just part of something very special, and that you are very special. Each of you before I think I read that you know should I live to be old enough to marry, have perform the ceremony for her and her husband and all the good things that will happen, all wrapped up in this little package, all the potential within the little package just gotten a little bigger package right now in the real thing. I have on another better shutdown L thank you thank you thank you thank you. God bless you and before you is a flower is our gift to you and father, thank you for your blessings. Thank you for each of the ladies into the children. We just ask your blessing and guidance upon us that the desires of our hearts, Lord, we will bring to you in God we trust you to make a difference. Amen, amen