THE BIG IDEA:

God’s ____________ are not necessarily

God’s ____________!

1 Samuel 1:6-7 NLT
So Peninnah would taunt Hannah and make fun of her because the Lord had kept her from having children.
Year after year it was the same—Peninnah would taunt Hannah as they went to the Tabernacle.
Each time, Hannah would be reduced to tears and would not even eat.

1 Samuel 1:8 NLT
Why are you crying, Hannah?” Elkanah would ask. “Why aren’t you eating? Why be downhearted
just because you have no children? You have me—isn’t that better than having ten sons?

1 Samuel 1:9-10 NLT
Once after a sacrificial meal at Shiloh, Hannah got up and went to pray. Eli the priest was sitting at his customary
place beside the entrance of the Tabernacle. Hannah was in deep anguish, crying bitterly as she prayed to the Lord.

1 Samuel 1:19a NLT
The entire family got up early the next morning and went to worship the Lord once more.

Have _____________________________________!

Trust _____________________________________!

Worship __________________________________!

1 Samuel 1:19b-20 NLT
Then they returned home to Ramah. When Elkanah slept with Hannah, the Lord remembered her plea,
and in due time she gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, for she said, “I asked the Lord for him.”