Watch & Pray_5

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Friday 28th May    Watch and Pray 5   We are still looking at the life of this wonderful woman of faith called Hannah    1 Samuel 1:16-18 (NLT)  Don’t think I am a wicked woman! For I have been praying out of great anguish and sorrow.” “In that case,” Eli said, “go in peace! May the God of Israel grant the request you have asked of him.” “Oh, thank you, sir!” she exclaimed. Then she went back and began to eat again, and she was no longer sad.   For years, Hannah had been going to the temple of God at Shiloh to pray to God for a child but nothing seemed to be happening. At this time, she was looking at her husband and her mate Peninnah and the more she looked at them the angrier and more frustrated she became. Her prayer wasn’t making any difference because she was watching people and not God. But this time was different, she was completely lost in prayers as she poured out her heart and her pain to God. Eli the priest saw how she was praying and was convinced she was drunk.   Eli approached her and scolded her because he thought she was drunk. On answering him and telling him her problems, Eli prayed for her and immediately her countenance changed and she wasn’t sad again. From that moment, she took her eyes of her husband and Peninnah and began watching out for the answer to the prayers of Eli. God honoured her "praying and watching" and she gave birth to a beautiful son - Samuel. As long as she was watching the wrong things and the wrong people, nothing happened. But the moment she changed her focus and her attitude changed, she became pregnant.    Peninnah mocked her, Eli wrongly accused her but she wasn’t discouraged, she kept watching out for the prophetic word spoken by Eli. The moment God's word can change your attitude, situations that used to cause her anxiety, fear and anger no longer affected nor troubled her. When this happens, that is the sign that your mirac

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