Sermon Title: “A Mother’s Faith” (Pastor Bob)

Sermon Text: 1 Samuel 1:8-2:11

Summary:

I have known and know great women of faith. Actually, all the prayer warriors I have known have been women. Hannah was a prayer warrior. She asked the Lord for a son. She prayed so hard, moving her lips without speaking, that Eli the priest thought she had too much wine. But why did she want a son? There were several reasons. What matters, however, is if God gave her a son, he would be devoted to the Lord’s service. Samuel would become a great prophet of God partly because a mother had enough faith to pray and ask God for a son. Truly, “the prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.” Isn’t the prayer of every Christian mother that her children will grow up and serve God with all their heart? Our children are not our own. We do not want them to be like us, we want them to be like God, like Jesus. We want them to be in his service, not in ours, all the days of their life. Ok, we want part of that service to be taking care of us in our old age.

Meditation: James 5:16 - “The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.”

Call to Worship: Psalm 32:6-11

N.T. Reading: Luke 18:1-8