Hannah The Wise Mother Pt 1

open your Bibles with me to the book of 1st Samuel chapter number 1 verses 1 through verse number 11 first samuel chapter 1 verses 1 through verse number 11 there was a certain man of Rama Thames oaf him of the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Elkanah the son of Jehovah son of Allah whose son of son of Tohu son of Zeus and efj recite he had two wives the name of the one was Hanna in the name of the other pnina and banana had children but hannah had no children this man used to go up year by year from his city to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of hosts at Shiloh where the two sons of Eli hophni and Phinehas were priests of the Lord on the day when Elkin are sacrificed he would give portions to pnina his wife and to all her sons and daughters but to Hanna he gave a double portion because he loved her who the Lord had closed her womb an arrival used to provoke grievously to irritate her because the Lord had closed her womb so it went on year by year as often as she went up to the house of the Lord she used to provoke her therefore Hannah went and would not eat and elkanah her husband said to her Hannah why do you weep and why do you not eat and why is your heart sad and my eye not more to you than ten sons after they had eaten and drunk in shiloh Hannah rules now Eli Eli the priest was sitting on the seat beside the doorpost of the temple of the Lord she was deeply distressed and prayed to the Lord and wept bitterly verse number 11 reads and she vowed a vow and said O Lord of Hosts if you will indeed look on the affliction of your servant and remember me and not forget your servant but will give to your servant a son then I will give him back to the Lord all the days of his life and no razor shall touch his head thank you you may have your seat grass withers and the flower fades but the word of our God shall stand forever I want to talk a minute about a wise mother Hannah is a wise wise mother there have been a lot of focus recently in the news in recent years on the stock market if you watch the news it does not take the commentator long to tell you either how well or how poorly the S&P 500 is doing or the Dow Jones Industrial Average of what's happening in the Asian and European markets in fact there are trillions of dollars invested in the stock market and the people who place their money there do so with the hope and the intention that their stocks will do well and will make them a profit the invest with Charles Charles Schwab or some other brokering firm where they put their money their investments to make sure that their stock portfolio grows and in years to come they are investing that their future will turn out well I don't have much money in the stock market I just have a little retirement money and even that little money is being handled by some people who are smarter than I am however while I may not investigate the markets and know what's going on in terms of navigating stocks I am still an active investor in many areas of my life every action every attitude every activity is an investment in something that will either glorify God or bring glory to my flesh in the stock market a wise investor will study the stocks before he or she invests so that he can maximize the return on their potential dividends those who would make a wise investment in their lives would do the same in order to receive the greatest dividend in your life Hana was a shrewd investor of her life she made some very wise investments that continued to reap dividends even this morning this morning I would like for us to take a glimpse at Hannah's portfolio I want to point to some areas where she made some wise investments and encourage you to hang in there keep on investing it's going to pay off after why Hannah made an investment in her family now this is not the best of situations Hannah is married to Elkanah who is also married to pnina is not the best of situations but in spite of that difficulty Hannah invested in her family because she's mentioned first Hannah is Elka nas first wife but she cannot have children God has closed her womb and so in antiquity a man's virility is judged by how many children he has and so Elkanah marries another woman named pnina who is fertile and bears children hannah has his heart but pnina has his children Hannah is a godly woman and God for his own purposes has shut up balloon while pnina is rude and insolent evil and mean-spirited Hannah is best suited to raise children but she doesn't have any banana is crass and mean spoken and she has many children it seems that way sometimes people who don't need children seemed to happen whenever they feel like it and people who are best suited to raise them God for his own purposes has shut up their womb and Hannah is heartbroken because she wants to give her husband children it's difficult in that situation but in spite of the difficulty she does not abandon the household I want you to I want you to get the gravity of this banana who is mean and has ugly we even a name pan I know sounds messy don't name your daughter pan I know that sounds like somebody who's trashy and Method and rude and ugly acting Hannah she knows that Elkanah really in his heart loves Hannah and so every day she rubs salt in Hannah's wound she's always picking at her reminding her that you're not a woman reminding her that he married you first but I got his children evil speaking of taunting her teasing her always rubbing it in her face banana is rude and mean spirited crass and ugly acting and she's always making Hannah cry you got it hot but I got his children he married you but look what I got look what you got but look what I got ugly me always making Hannah cry and that's a difficult situation to be in and brothers and sisters let me hurry and see to us family is difficult I could handle family if I didn't have any people in it people make families difficult someone ought to help me here you got a brother or sister who's always taunting you rubbing it in your face jealous of you yes that's what Pennine is real problem is she's jealous because Elkanah loves Hannah but God for his own reasons has closed up Hannah's wound and in your family they don't always wish you well in the families there's bitterness there's rancor that's anger that's all right underneath the surface some tension some strife and all it takes is a moment for it to explode and some families the air is always electric there's always tension in the air because that's some unresolved conflict there's some bitterness that is right underneath the surface and all it takes is a spark and a fire starts and Families quit speaking to each other for years because family is difficult but as difficult as family is you don't walk out on your family as mean as your family is you don't cuss out your family it's bad and it's tense as it is in family you got to stay there and invest in that boy invest in that girl and it may look like right now that is not gonna pay off but keep on putting it in them keep on putting it in her keep on putting it in them keep on putting it in them keep on putting it in them keep on putting it in keep on putting it in because when they are growing up when they are small they are mean and insolent and always mad they're grouchy if you got two children one I'm gonna be crazy and if you got one he's half crazy but just keep on putting it in keep on training them keep on teaching them keep on living right in front of them keep on setting a godly example keep on walking in the word keep on reading the Bible keep on bringing in the church keep on making them go to choir practice keep on making them come to us with me if you'll be not weird somehow to help me hear you in the church right now cuz your mother your father your grandmother your grandfather invested in you Hanna Hanna could've easily walked out on that situation because trashy Penina the name just sound missing mean Penina is always picking at her always rubbing in her face always pouring salt in wounds making her always feel bad because in that day not to have a child made you less than a woman and so Hanna feels less than Hanna feels marginalized Hanna feels out of the loop Hanna feels that she's not measuring up and / NIDA does not let up on it the scripture says year after year after year after year Hanna put up with the Hanna shows us how to stand up under constant ridicule without giving them brothers and sisters is always too soon to give up somebody has given up on a marriage too soon giving up on your son too soon giving up on your dreams too soon no matter how difficult it is no matter how stressful it is never never never give up Hannah is in it year after year after year after year and the situation grows increasingly difficult but she stays there in spite of the difficult not only does she stay in spite of difficult that she stays in spite of discouragement every year usually it's three times a year but now they've gone down to once a year making an annual trip to Jerusalem to make sacrifice and elkanah is taking hannah and peninnah and all his children i mean everything he owns to the making of the sacrifice and this year Hannah is weeping and she would not eat and then her husband says to her Hannah what's the matter why are you so sad am I not better than ten sons look look at how he loves us in spite of the difficulty in spite of the discouragement in spite of the situation Hannah can't see it because when you're discouraged it disorients you when you're in a difficult situation you always see the glass half empty rather than half-full he says why you said why are you crying am I not better to you then ten sons because the scripture says he gives punana his sons and his daughters their portion but he gives Hannah a double portion whatever he gives banana he gives Hannah double then but Hannah does not want a double portion she wants a child she wants a son to present to her husband and and there on that way up to the festival on that way up to the feast and banana is sin look at what I got look at what you got you ain't doing nothing look at what I got you got his heart but I got his children he leaving me he putting me out yet I'm still here and here they are on their way up to the feast and Hannah is weeping and she will not eat but into her discouragement stay with me now she has an out she has a weapon that she hasn't yet used on pnina bananas been picking at and uncovering the scalp and criticizing her cuz she came bad children but hannah has a weapon she hasn't used yet the only weapon you have against your enemy is prayer cuz when you pray God will take care you in him I wish I had somebody to help me preach it don't forget my home used to say if you pray and pray right God will hear and answer your prayer and God will shut the mouth of your enemy fret not yourself because of evildoers neither be envious against the workers of iniquity for they shall soon be cut off like grass and they shall wither like the greener the Lord is my light and my salvation whom shall I fear the Lord is the strength of my life of whom shall I be afraid what when the wicked even my enemies and my foes came on me to eat up my flesh just before they got to me God tripped them and the trap they set for me God saw to it that they fell in it themselves never got a witness here God will take care of your enemies but you can't fight fire with fire the only weapon you have that works is prayer hand I went to the temple and she started praying she wouldn't eat she weeping yeah and she's praying in her heart read it when you get home the scripture says her mouth is moving but no words are coming out somebody here who's been through some difficulty who's been discouraged knows about sometimes you pray and no words can come out because you know what you feel but you can't put it in the words I wish they had a believer here you know how bad things are going in your life but you can't verbalize that you can't express it in words because the pain is so deep that you cannot even bear words to touch it now if you haven't been there you don't know when the shot it's gonna be time to shout in a minute and you won't even you you're gonna miss it because I'm not talking about a headache right now I'm not talking about a sprained ankle I'm not talking about your wrist is bothering you I'm talking about a pain that's deep down on the inside that nobody knows anything about but you ain't gon come on talk back to me if you can you can't even tell your friends about this because there are some things that go on in our lives that we can't express a childís on our heart that's burdening us and we got to laugh to keep from crying we got to smile when our heart is broken we got to keep on going when we feel like staying in the house anybody here ever been there I said anybody here ever been there I'm not talking about a little ache in a little pain I'm talking about your heart is so broken that you can't even get the words and I just cries long praying do words come out and Eli the priest see Hannah in the temple with a mouth moving and he thinks she's drunk reading this in the text really when you get home he says girl put that wine away stop acting like that in the house of God and Hannah says oh my lord I'm not drunk my soul is weary I've been weeping and mourning and I'm in the temple because I want to pray and that's somebody in here this morning getting half a look like you're drunk look like you're losing your mind and people getting tired of you cutting up every Sunday getting tired of you shouting every time you turn around matter of fact I didn't want to sit next to you anymore cuz they don't know when you gonna explode but they don't know what you going through and I want to encourage somebody this morning if someone farted - don't work if Psalm 54 don't work try some 34 I complain and God didn't do anything I prayed and God didn't come to my rescue so I'm a shout in the midst of my trouble you better get out of my way you got to leave me alone I woke up this morning with my mind stayed on Jesus I came here to tell God about my trouble my heart is broken my soul is weary and you think I'm gonna let you intimidate me about how I give God glory God I will blast the mole now watch this pay attention to this Eli is criticizing Hannah for how she's acting in the temple and he can't do nothing with his own children hophni and Phinehas sons of Eli God is going to kill both of them on the same day because the glory of God is gone from Israel because of Eli's two sons hophni and Phinehas and eli has the nerve to criticize hannah when he can't handle his own queue that's just like some people that Linda grow veiny all of a sudden did a morality police cuz they didn't got old and can't run women the moon have I got a witness all of a sudden either salvation police because they've done everything in the book outside the book on top of the book and they've even written another book and not in criticizing how you live your life if you're living in a glass house somebody ought to help me preach it don't criticize other people's way of praise and God and your house is messed up you don't know what somebody went through to get here this morning you don't know how many tears they've had to share you don't know how many burdens they've had to bear investing in their family stand there when things got difficult staying there in spite of discouragement your mother could have aborted me but she stayed right there she could have left my father and I'd be raised in a house with a single parent but in spite of the difficulty in spite of the discouragement she stayed right there to make an investment in her children and I would see my mother late at night she would not go to sleep until all of us got in the house and every foot that fell on the porch she knew who it was she didn't have to open the door she didn't have to crack the blind she just heard a footstep and she said that's Steve that's Bobby coming in that's ray right there she knew our footfalls cuz she birthed us she stayed there and invested in us and at night I'd see my mother on her knees calling every one of our name and she said Lord let me live long enough to see my children grown let me stay here long enough to take care of my children to provide for my children to be a mother for my and my mother stayed right there and invested in us I would not be Who I am today if my mother had not invested in my family Oh for the touch of a vanished hand and the sound of a voice now still I'll give anything to hear my mother's voice again but I see her on the other side then after I fall at Jesus feet i'ma tell my mama again thank you for investing in me cuz I would not be Who I am right now if you didn't stay through the difficult stay through the discouragement and heal I thought that Hannah was drunk because of how she praised God and listen don't let nobody at this church intimidate you when you get rid of the praise God because you didn't been through enough to give God some hallelujah prayer you had enough storms in your life that God has brought you through you've had enough difficulty you've had enough discouragement in your life and God delivered you every time and then you sitting by somebody who's mean enough to say to you it don't take all that speak for yourself it don't take all that for you cuz you ain't got nothing but it takes all of that for me I will bless the Lord at all if I got a blessing by myself then God got to shout by myself if I got a praise and by myself I been through enough and if it doesn't do anything else he's already done more than enough and here's Hannah's prayer I'm gonna get to the rest of this in the next service but here's Hannah's prayer she said Lord if you give me a son I promise you I make a vow to you that I'll give him back to you all the days of his life in Paris is the mistake we make we have children to ourselves and don't give them back to the Lord we have children to build up our posterity we have children sometimes for our own Eagle we have children sometimes to satisfy some need in ourselves to nurture but if you want that boy that girl to be everything they ought to be when they are born give them back to the Lord listen Hannah made sure that Samuels heroes were not outside the church you missed the opportunity to shop she made sure that samuel was heroes were not outside the church she kept him in the temple she kept him in the church to make sure that his influencers were people at the church bring your children to church so that folk at church who mean good can influence them single mother bring your boy to church there's some godly men around here who can help him bring your daughter to church there's some godly woman around here who can help them I was at my sister-in-law's general not long ago and a young man who is a member of this church now from my hometown in units where I'm from he's a member here Maya's Alice and Mayas might even be in church this morning but Maya's prayed that my sister-in-law Jocelyn sooner oh he's not a deacon he's not a trustee to teach a Sunday School class he's just a strong godly Christian young man and he prayed that my sister-in-law's funeral and after the funeral miles came to me at the repast and said Reverend I've been a member of Lilly growth since I've been in Houston he said you baptized me you raised me as a child when I was at true light you baptized me I didn't have a father growing up my mother did the best she could but all my life I watched you and mr. Johnny and and and I want to take this opportunity to say to you that I'm the man that I am because I kept my eyes on you all my growing up years and when you left units to come to lily Grove I knew if I ever moved to Houston I would join the church where you are because you made such an impact on my life you don't know who's watching you you don't know who's paying attention to your life but keep on investing just keep on pouring it on just keep on pouring it out and God will let some drops fall on somebody and they will come back one day and tell you the influence you made on their life and I need to say this to some woman here who's never had a child God has closed up your womb I want to say to somebody in the words of encouragement that you don't have to bear children to be a mother just walk right just need right God for his own purposes kept you from having children of your own so he could give you other people's children to influence so he could get single-hearted devotions out of you to make you not just your child's mother but other people's children's mother that's the kind of mother my mother was my mother disciplined us with strong discipline my mother was not one of those types you said we tell your dad to get home no I was wishing my daddy would get home to take off me I was wishing my dad to get home to stop her from shooting one of us my mother was not was not afraid to discipline every morning when we woke up during the summertime with no school there were ten switches on the porch because she had ten children and she said just in case you start something and and somebody would come to my house and say may I whip them but it don't do no good she said don't say that in front of me I don't like to hit anybody talk like that don't don't talk like that in front of me because you don't make me make you go home you're gonna make me mad talking like that she said you ain't doing it right because if you do it right it may not change their mind but I'll change that way and and and if you do it right all you can do is go to sleep all they can do is take a nap but good whippin to make him take a good nap a good long now you died and they time but then you would passed by our house and we think it was a house party going on cuz my mother played with us she danced with us we had a good time to go she taught me how to swing out you better ask somebody I can dance cuz my mother taught me how to dance she say you'll never get a girlfriend if you don't know how to dance she had a good time with us she raised us to fear God to go to church to respect my elders because she stayed home and made investments in us the operative word is she stayed home because you can't be your children's friend and party with them in the club and let them see different men coming in the house every night and then try to discipline them no you got to walk right in front of them so that they will see your godly example Hannah prayed and God answered and samuel was born and although the glory had gone from Israel it returned in the breath of Samuel because you remember Samuel you worked in the temple with Eli and then when God got rid of the fire Saul he sent Samuel to Jesse's house to pour out the anointing oil on Israel's future King and soul was fired but Samuel and nights David and we know David because of Samuel we know Samuel because of Hannah and we know Hannah because God closed her womb to teach us that when he gets ready to prosper us no pnina can stand in our way this last word I'm gonna leave you alone you saw it on television Kevin Durant stood to receive his trophy as the NBA is Most Valuable Player you saw it and with tears in his eyes he thanked his mother he said when you didn't eat you make sure we ate you kept us off the streets this award belongs to you you mama are the most valuable player newscasters harden sports casters couldn't help from crying listening to that boy talk about his mother being his most valuable player I wept when I saw that on television but I got another most valuable player thank God for my mother thank God for my father but one Friday on a scholarship Hill and on a blood-soaked cross my most valuable player took my place on the cross he died for me but Sunday morning he got up from the grave with all power in his hand so that now thank God for my mother thank God for my grandmother thank God for my father but more than that thank God for Jesus who became sin for us who knew no sin that we might become the righteousness of God thank God for Jesus who took my place at the cross that I might have a right to the Tree of Life he's my most valuable player thank God for Jesus who wrote my name in the Lamb's Book of Life

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Keywords: Reverend Terry Anderson Pastor Lilly Grove Missionary Baptist Church Houston Texas

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Length: 43min 5sec (2585 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 28 2015