THE PRAYER LIFE! #4

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I have met some women with fertility problems, who stand on Hannah's prayer. They used her prayer to affirm that they believed that God would bless them with 
a child. 

There is not a lot of information 
given about Hannah in the Bible.  However, there is one important
detail that I have learned about 
her.She believed in God and said
a prayer asking him to bless her
with a son.

Here are some scriptures that tell 
us about Hanna:


 

PAINTING, GERBRAND VAN DEN EECKHOUT,
HANNAH PRESENTING SON SAMUEL TO PRIEST ELI, CA. 1665



LIFE LESSON:

HANNAH'S PRAYER

1 SAMUEL 2:1-2, 5-7, 11-20

1 Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the mountains 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 one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.

⁵ But to Hannah he would give a double portion, for he loved Hannah, although
the Lord had closed her womb.

⁶ And her rival also provoked her severely, to make her miserable, because the Lord had closed her womb.

⁷ So it was, year by year, when she
went up to the house of the Lord,
that she provoked her; therefore
she wept and did not eat.

¹¹ Then she made a vow and said,
 “O Lord of hosts,if You will indeed
look on the affliction of Your maid
servant and remember me, and not 
forget Your maidservant, but will give 
Your maidservant a male child,then I 
will give him to the Lord all the days 
of his life, and no razor shall come 
upon his head.”

¹² And it happened, as she continued praying before the Lord,that Eli watched her mouth.

¹³ Now Hannah spoke in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard. Therefore Eli thought she was drunk.

¹⁴ So Eli said to her, “How long will you 
be drunk? Put your wine away from you!”

¹⁵  But Hannah answered and said, “No, 
my lord, I am a woman of sorrowful spirit. I have drunk neither wine nor intoxicating drink, but have poured out my soul before the Lord.

¹⁶ “Do not consider your maidservant a wicked woman, for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief I have spoken until now.”

¹⁷ Then Eli answered and said, “Go in peace, and the God of Israel grant your petition which you have asked of Him.”

¹⁸ And she said, “Let your maidservant find favor in your sight.” So the woman went her way and ate, and her face was 
no longer sad.

¹⁹ Then they rose early in the morning and worshiped before the Lord, and returned and came to their house at Ramah.  And Elkanah knew  Hannah  his wife, and the Lord remembered her.

²⁰ So it came to pass in the process of 
time that Hannah conceived and bore a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, “Because I have asked for him from the Lord.”

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