Mytery Of Hannah - How Old When She Gave birth to "SAMUEL" !!!!!

[kathiresan jeyapandian]

Mytery Of Hannah - How Old When She Gave birth to "SAMUEL" !!!!!

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DESPERATIONS_  JEFF.IN  V-4 N-1  SUNDAY_  63-0901E

  99     she was past the age of bearing, probably sixty, seventy years old. And she prayed with desperation, she must have this child! What was it? God had spoke to her, no doubt.

Outline of I Samuel 1st before proceeding:

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1-4. Elkanah and his two wives travel yearly to Shiloh

5. Elkanah’s love for Hannah

6-7. Peninnah provokes Hannah

8. Elkanah’s response

9-11. Hannah’s vow

12-18. Discussion with Eli the priest

19-20. Hannah is given a son

21-28. Hannah gives her son Samuel over to Eli to serve God

1. Hannah is old when she had Samuel as the other wife had several children

2. Samuel is about 2 to 3 years age as Hannah took him as soon as he was weaned

3. Hannah was MORE THAN 70 Years when she gave birth to Samuel

4. Sarah was MORE THAN 70 years when she gave birth to Isaac 

5. Hannah conceived through a miracle in spite of her old age

6. God opened the barren wombs of Sarah, Rebecca, Leah, Rachel, and Samson’s mother, before her, God in this case too opens the barren womb of a woman to carry out his greater purposes.

7.  Hannah was passed the age of bearing, 

Significances of Hanna's:

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1. Hannah was perseverant. 

2. Even though God was silent toward her request for a child for many years, she never stopped praying.

3. Hannah realized that it needs divine intervention to open her womb.  It has been year after year that Peninnah has provoked her, year after year that she has been unable to conceive.  Only God could open her womb.

4. Hannah prayer is not selfish.  If her prayer were selfish, then she would want her child to be with her.  

5. Hannah says “no razor will touch his head,” she’s not just making some weird promise that he will have long hair or a long beard.  Instead, she’s vowing that her son will grow up in the Nazirite tradition.  A Nazirite was a person who dedicated themselves to the Lord for a period of separation.  During that time, they were not to eat or drink anything produced by the grapevine, not wine, not even fresh or dried grapes.  

6. She had faith that God had the power to help her. She never doubted God's abilities.

7. She finds this peace in knowing she has turned to the Lord and the Lord will begins to work in her life.

8. She got fasting for him

9. She prayed during the time of desperation too

10. She wanted her reproach taken away. 

11. She asked for a son but got a PROPHET

12. Hannah means to “favour by grace (or petition)”, fulfilling the meaning of her name through her petition to God for a child.

13. Hannah is the only woman in the Old Testament with her name

14. Hannah mentioned is in 1 Sam 1:2 where we are told that Hannah had no children, where that word children is in the masculine. What Hannah was asking for was not children, but specifically as son and if you look in v11 we read that she vowed a vow and asked for a man child, or more specifically that word comes from the word for seed. You see Hannah wanted a seed of man, one who she was willing to dedicate to Lord God, all the days of his life. Hannah’s prayer was for a man to bring salvation to the rest of Israel, a man who would reverse the spiritual decline of the nation. 

Note: Hannah asked to be a part of God’s plan, but Elect of God are already a part of it.  We must live into it then.  We have to see our lives as bigger than just our current struggles.  We too must learn to lay aside our personal dreams and desires that don’t fit with God’s purposes, to lay them at God’s feet in prayer, saying “here Lord, take this…  Take me and use me for your glory.” 

DESPERATIONS_  JEFF.IN  V-4 N-1  SUNDAY_  63-0901E

  98      Hannah, a barren woman in the Bible, she wanted a son, and she got to fasting for him. And she fasted and prayed until even the priest at the temple thought she was drunk. She was in such desperation! With the rest of the women watching what kind of a bonnet the other one had wore; and you know how it goes; and the other one seeing what kind of clothes they had on, and talking about the things going on on the farm. But not Hannah; she stepped right through the whole crowd and went to the altar. She had been fasting. She wanted her reproach taken away.

What a difference it is today. It's almost a reproach to have a child. Then it was--it was a reproach not to have one.

And she got on her knees. And she never noticed the dignity of the temple. She never noticed the dignified priest as he walked out. She was in such distress till her tears was rolling down her cheeks, and she was crying, in desperation, "O Lord God, give me a son. Give me a son!"

DESPERATIONS_  JEFF.IN  V-4 N-1  SUNDAY_  63-0901E

  99      And, notice, she wasn't selfish. When God heard her, and answered her prayer and gave her a son, she gave him back to God. And because that she was willing not to be selfish after God had answered her prayer, He gave her a prophet. Oh, that was a extra blessing. Oh, He's just full of them, those little extra things that He gives. Not only a son, but a prophet. And there had been no open vision for many, many years, in Israel. Samuel, the first prophet, for many, many years, because a mother got desperate; that she could have no children, and she was past the age of bearing, probably sixty, seventy years old. And she prayed with desperation, she must have this child! What was it? God had spoke to her, no doubt.

100    You can't be desperate till God speaks to you. Oh, Church, rise and shake yourself! Pinch your conscience, wake yourself up, in this hour! We must be desperate, or perish! There is coming forth something from the Lord! I know it as THUS SAITH THE LORD. There is coming forth something, and we better get desperate. It's between Life and death. It'll pass through us and we won't see it.

101    Because that she wasn't selfish, she was given a prophet.