Day 12 – Hannah
Read It: 1 Samuel 1:1-20
Live It:
Have you ever felt desperate? Empty? Hopeless? Perhaps you can relate to Hannah. She longed for a child and was barren. She felt hopeless and rejected. She couldn’t eat or sleep and wept constantly. Her husband was frustrated with her, Penninah provoked her, the priest criticized her, and she felt misunderstood, unheard, and forgotten. Why was this happening to her?
But in her hopelessness, Hannah goes before the Lord and gives us a powerful example of what to do when we are feeling hopeless: acknowledge God’s power, plead for his mercy, surrender to his authority, and praise him.
It is often through these desperate prayers of surrender and worship that we experience the hope we so desperately need.
Pastor Jessica