THE LORD HAS GRANTED MY PETITION

Post date: Aug 17, 2015 10:34:08 PM

Everyone who had ever lived on this earth and those who are still living today has a story about their lives and their living to tell: they have certain good or bitter experience in their lives which they try either to remember forever, to hide from people or try to forget forever in their memories and in their hearts; everyone has an expectation to put their hopes and their future on; everyone has a demand that they keep presenting before God and before people at any given time in their lives; everyone had suffered injustice; everyone living today is holding on to a certain dream, a certain vision and a particular desire as they see each new day. The story of your life will not in any way be disappointing because Christ Jesus who is your lord and savior is with you; He is for you; He is in you, and He will do it good for you as He did for Hannah.

Hannah’s story began with her being declared barren after years of marriage by people, by her husband and the immediate family; she suffered injustice in her own home with her own family; she suffered humiliation from her husband’s second wife and her children; she received constant provocations from within which was affecting her thoughts, her view of herself and her actions; she suffered isolations and nursed several hidden thoughts, but one thing was clear, she never for one day thought or believed that God made her barren. He constantly believed God will change her situation and she trusted God for that change through prayers. The things she heard of herself and what she suffered never in any way made her to turn her back on her God, but rather, all that she went through made her the courage to be more focus more her God and to the point of even ignoring temporal pleasure and unnecessary self-entertainment.     

For you, I ask that our Lord Jesus Christ will grant your petition with sweet stories that will bring joy and encouragement to those who will hear you speak; that your story will end in triumph and in the kind of victory that will glorify the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; will lift you up higher than what you are now and will place you on a higher and better place in life than where you are today in life; that your experience in life will result in the building up of your faith and that of others so that they will always depend on God and rely on His words as you do; that with great reward He will wipe away your tears and sorrows, and He will grant your petition.

As Hannah witness her story, you will witness to the things God had done to you personally; they will not be boring to the ears of those who will hear you speak; it will not lack the joy and the motivation in the lives of others; it will not be a distraction to faith and will not discourage others from seeking the Almighty God in their lives, focusing on Him and trusting Him always; it will bring faith and satisfaction because you will witness what is good, acceptable and true story of the goodness of God in your life.

“Hannah became pregnant and in due time bore a son and named him Samuel because, she said, I have asked him of the Lord. And Elkanah and all his house went up to offer to the Lord the yearly sacrifice and pay his vow. But Hannah did not go, for she said to her husband, I will not go until the child is weaned, and then I will bring him, that he may appear before the Lord and remain there as long as he lives. Elkanah her husband said to her, do what seems best to you. Wait until you have weaned him; only may the Lord establish His word. So Hannah remained and nursed her son until she weaned him. When she had weaned him, she took him with her, with a three-year-old bull, an ephah of flour, and a skin bottle of wine, and brought Samuel to the Lord’s house in Shiloh. The child was growing. Then they slew the bull, and brought the child to Eli. Hannah said, Oh, my lord as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood by you here praying to the Lord. For this child I prayed, and the Lord has granted my petition made to Him. Therefore I have given him to the Lord; as long as he lives he is given to the Lord. And they worshiped the Lord there.” 1 Samuel 1:20-28. For prayers, Click here For 2015 Praise and worship Click Here