Blessed Women

Date: 10 May 2008
Speaker: Pastor Kong Hee
Venue: City Harvest Church

1 Samuel 1:1-2
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. 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.

1 Samuel 1:6
And her rival also provoked her severely, to make her miserable, because the Lord had closed her womb.

Amidst all the darkness, Hannah was dedicated to God.

She was a woman of prayer.

1 Samuel 1:7
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.

1 Samuel 1:11
Then she made a vow and said, “O Lord of hosts, if You will indeed look on the affliction of Your maidservant 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.”

Amidst all ther darkness, Hannah was dedicated to her husband.

Despite all that her husband did to her, she forgave him.

1 Samuel 1:5
But to Hannah he would give a double portion, for he loved Hannah, although the LORD had closed her womb.

1 Samuel 1:19
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.

Amidst all the darkness, Hannah was dedicated to her child.

She mothered her child well.

1 Samuel 3:1
Now the boy Samuel ministered to the Lord before Eli. And the word of the Lord was rare in those days; there was no widespread revelation.

Hannah was a blessing to her generation.