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HANNA'S PRAYER7th of September, 2001

I am serving a God of miracles, I know, yes I know.

(Amen!) Song..

Let’s go before our Father, the God of miracles, the only one who can do great things.

Baba baba baba, ese o baba a wa dupe baba….

Jehovah you are the most high, You are the most high God …….

Let’s just go ahead and worship the Almighty God Let’s worship the King of Kings!! Let’s worship the I AM that I AM!

The Ancient of Days! Let’s bless His holy Name! Let’s magnify His Holy Name! Let’s praise Him! Let’s worship Him! He’s worthy to be praised!

He’s worthy to be adored!

He’s worthy to be magnified.

Let’s praise Him! Let’s worship the Almighty God Thank You Father!

Let’s open our mouth and praise the Almighty!

He’s worthy!

He’s worthy!

He’s worthy of our praise!

He’s worthy!

He’s worthy of adoration!

Give Him all glory!

Give Him all honour!

Give Him all adoration!

He’s worthy!

He’s worthy!

He’s worthy!

Praise Him! Father, we worship You!

We magnify Your Holy Name Lord! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You Lord!

We will always lift You high!

But there’s no one like You Lord!

Take all glory!

Let Your Name  be glorified!

Let Your Name be glorified like never before!

Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You Ancient of Days! Thank You the I AM that I AM! Blessed be Your Name!

We will always glorify your Name! Yes, we will praise You!

The whole world will hear and they will glorify Your Name with us.

Blessed be Your Name! Thank You Lord!

In Jesus’ mighty Name we have worshipped!

(Amen!)

The Lord said there is someone here tonight, an old enemy is about to rear his head again.

The Lord asked me to tell you, I will crush the head.

(Amen!).

Father we want to bless Your Holy Name tonight because we know You are going to do marvelous things in our midst.

Accept our thanks in Jesus’ Name! (Amen!)  Lord we are here for You and we know You are here for us.

We are here in faith and we know we will not go away empty-handed.

(Amen!)  Accept our thanks in Jesus’ Name! (Amen!) Father, take control!

(Amen!) Glorify Your Name.

(Amen!) Do more than we can hope for (Amen!) and at the end of everything Let Your Name be glorified in Jesus’ Name! (Amen!)

In Jesus’ mighty Name we have prayed!

(Amen!) Amen!

Let somebody shout ‘Alleluia!’

(Alleluia!)

I want you to shake hand with one or two people and tell them: “This night is my night!

This night is my night!

If you believe that shout Alleluia!

God Bless you, you may be seated!

Let’s open our Bibles to I’m reading from verse 9-20.

I think the Yoruba readers will just follow along with us.

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9 So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk.

Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of the LORD.

10 And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD, and wept sore.

11 And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head.

12 And it came to pass, as she continued praying before the LORD, that Eli marked her mouth.

13 Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.

14 And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken?

put away thy wine from thee.

15 And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the LORD.

16 Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto.

17 Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace: and the God of Israel grant thee thy petition (Amen!) that thou hast asked of him.

18 And she said, Let thine handmaid find grace in thy sight.

So the woman went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more sad.

(somebody will never weep again tonight (Amen!))

19 And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before the LORD, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD remembered her.

(the Lord will remember somebody here tonight (Amen!) )

20 Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD.

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In this story that I’m sure you know very well, And if you like you can read the whole story from verse one to the end, the Bible says there was a man called Elkanah, he had two wives.

That’s a problem on its own but we won’t talk about that tonight.

Now the first – one of the wives had children and the second one had none.

Now this man was a very good man.

He loved his wife.

Even though she had no child he loved her.

As you see in verse 5 any time he wanted to give something to the wives he gave a worthy portion to Hannah the barren woman.

And this man was constantly going into the temple to worship God.

And in the house there was war for Hannah.

Hannah was always having problem with the other woman.

Any time she was moving about the other woman will say, “What are you doing in this house.

What is value of a tree without fruits?”

All of you that people have been calling trees without fruits you will laugh last.

(Amen!)

And then one day they went to worship the Lord as usual and this time Hannah refused to eat.

She decided to fast.

Something within her just told her ‘Enough is enough!’

And for somebody here tonight ‘Enough is enough!’ (Amen!)

You know I’ve said it before.

Your miracles will only come when you are determined to take it by force.

As long as you are willing to tolerate sickness, sickness will remain with you.

As long as you are willing to tolerate poverty, poverty will remain.

As long as you are willing to tolerate barrenness, barrenness will be there!

But one day you will wake up and say, “No, no, no, no!

I refuse to continue!”

For example, I’ve made up my mind, I will not suffer any more.

The way you said it shows that you are not serious.