Greetings,
We all have something very beautiful and amazing in common:
MOMS! As we prepare to celebrate Mother's Day this weekend, let's look at
one fabulous, inspiring mom from the Bible.
Hannah desperately longed for a baby, but she could not get
pregnant. It was heartbreaking, and to make matters worse, another woman, who
had the blessing of children, "taunted her cruelly" because of it (I
guess mean girls have always been a problem). And - surprise surprise - her
husband didn't understand her either. He was so clueless he asked her, "Don’t
I mean more to you than ten sons?”
Hannah did the wisest, most powerful thing she could do.
"Crushed in soul, Hannah prayed to God and cried and cried -
inconsolably. ‘Oh, God...take
a good, hard look at my pain, go into action for me by giving me a
son, I’ll give him completely, unreservedly to you. I’ll set him
apart for a life of holy discipline’"
Hannah prayed a desperate, no-holds-barred, anguished plea,
which was also a mighty invitation.
“GO INTO ACTION FOR ME!
That's bold. Specks of dust us telling Almighty God
to take a good, hard look at our suffering and then demanding He do something
about it? What nerve!
But that's precisely the kind of "nerve" God
responds to.
By the time we get to verse 20 in this same chapter we
read, "Before the year was out, Hannah had conceived and given birth to a
son. She named him Samuel, explaining, 'I asked God for him.'”
This phrase, "before the year was out," really
touches my heart and fills me with hope. I have several prayer requests
that I would love to see answered before the end of the year.
Do you?
Then let's pray!
PRAYER: Dear Lord, thank You for moms. Some of our moms are
in Your tender care, and we are grateful we will see them again. For those moms
here on earth, bless them with long healthy lives. We also praise You for the
bold language of the Bible; GO INTO ACTION FOR US. I especially
need to see Your power displayed in this area of my life
_________________________, and may You grant my request before the year is out.
In Jesus' name, AMEN~
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