Speaker 1: Hey, I'm coming to you now from the basin.
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Speaker 1: I hope you enjoy this overflow message.
Speaker 2: Let me know, let's go. Got something today that was
Speaker 2: a little bit of a mind shift for me reading
Speaker 2: about the story of Hannah and when she was unable
Speaker 2: to conceive and her rival Panigna would provoke her every day.
Speaker 2: In first tun of chapter one, it says that she
Speaker 2: would refuse to eat, and her husband Elkina, he kept
Speaker 2: trying to feed her. Lie you know, I am gonna
Speaker 2: bring you a double portion, because the Bible says that
Speaker 2: the Lord had closed Hannah's womb, and in this time
Speaker 2: they saw things pretty clearly. They saw a closed womb
Speaker 2: as being from the Lord, an open woman as being
Speaker 2: from the Lord. And typically this particular Israelite conception of
Speaker 2: God's favor was if you are able to conceive, you're blessed.
Speaker 2: If you're not able to conceive, that's a curse. And
Speaker 2: they associated all kinds of things with the ability to
Speaker 2: bring life was a sign of a righteous relationship with God,
Speaker 2: was a sign of God's favor was a sign of
Speaker 2: God's pleasure, and the inability to produce life, whether that
Speaker 2: was the land or whether that was human life, would
Speaker 2: be seen as a sign of God's displeasure, God's punishment
Speaker 2: consequence of sin. And so you see that show up
Speaker 2: a lot in the different writings, not only of the prophets,
Speaker 2: but you see it all throughout the stories of the
Speaker 2: Old Testament. And then when we come into the New Testament,
Speaker 2: we find out that Jesus has come that we might
Speaker 2: have life and have it more abundantly, not to kill
Speaker 2: still and destroy.
Speaker 1: That's what the thief does.
Speaker 2: And so we see kind of this progression of the
Speaker 2: idea that not only does life come from God and
Speaker 2: that we're given life by God, but life comes from
Speaker 2: inside of us when we're in relationship with God, that
Speaker 2: we're able to bring life and bring joy and bring
Speaker 2: ideas and bring opportunities and bring partnership and bring encouragement
Speaker 2: and bring inspiration when we're in a place of connection
Speaker 2: with God. So I was reading Hannah's story today about
Speaker 2: how the Lord enabled her to conceive and give birth
Speaker 2: to a son who was Samuel, a prophet whom like
Speaker 2: there has not arisen one sense, and who did amazing
Speaker 2: things for the nation of Israel. In the nation of Israel,
Speaker 2: none of his words fell to the ground, the Bible say,
Speaker 2: but he started out as the product of a woman's
Speaker 2: womb that had been barren year after year after year.
Speaker 2: And the longer it went on that she was barren,
Speaker 2: the more she became distressed and disappointed, until it got
Speaker 2: to the place where her husband was like, don't you
Speaker 2: love me? Why can't I make you happy? And see,
Speaker 2: it wasn't him that she was unhappy with. It was
Speaker 2: the inability inside of herself to produce something that she
Speaker 2: had a desire for. Will that not preach to us
Speaker 2: when we want something, when we want to get above
Speaker 2: something or past something but we can't. When we want
Speaker 2: a certain type of experience, and we want a certain
Speaker 2: type of feeling, when we want to be able to
Speaker 2: make a certain type of difference, but we can't.
Speaker 1: Sometimes our desires are not all that noble, you know.
Speaker 2: Sometimes we want something that we can't afford, or we
Speaker 2: want something to get easier and it won't. And then
Speaker 2: sometimes a desire is given to us by God, and
Speaker 2: that desire when conceived, When the desire is conceived in
Speaker 2: your heart and in your spirit. It becomes very powerful,
Speaker 2: and it can be I'm dominant to the point that
Speaker 2: everything else in your life is overshadowed by.
Speaker 1: This one desire.
Speaker 2: And I've met people before who wanted to be married
Speaker 2: more than anything else. I've met people before who wanted
Speaker 2: their marriage to get better more than anything else. People
Speaker 2: who not only wanted to have children, but wanted something
Speaker 2: in the life of one of their children. People who
Speaker 2: were desiring healing for their body or someone that they love,
Speaker 2: people who were desiring clarity, people who were desiring peace.
Speaker 2: On the other hand, the Bible talks about evil desires,
Speaker 2: and that's something that we could spend a whole devotion
Speaker 2: talking on here. Though I don't see an evil desire
Speaker 2: from Hannah. I just see the evil one trying to
Speaker 2: discourage her about a desire that she has that has
Speaker 2: not yet been delivered. She has not yet been able
Speaker 2: to conceive a child. And I use the word yet
Speaker 2: because since we're reading a book called First Samuel, we
Speaker 2: know that something's going to happen, and Hannah is crying
Speaker 2: and she's in anguish in this season, but we understand
Speaker 2: that this season, we're seeing Hannah in is going to
Speaker 2: give way to Samuel, the one who she already has
Speaker 2: the potential to bring forth.
Speaker 1: It's inside of her, but it's.
Speaker 2: Waiting on the moment for God to speak the word
Speaker 2: and open her womb, and she's going to bring forth.
Speaker 2: She doesn't know that, though, And that's the hardest thing
Speaker 2: about discouragement, is that you don't know that there is
Speaker 2: a tomorrow, and you certainly don't know that there's a
Speaker 2: better one ahead. And you don't know if tomorrow is
Speaker 2: literally tomorrow, if it's if it's ten years from now tomorrow,
Speaker 2: these elements of time, you know. I was talking to
Speaker 2: friend the other day about how disappointment operates on the
Speaker 2: basis of time. If you take time out of the equation,
Speaker 2: it becomes more difficult for the devil to disappoint you
Speaker 2: because you can show up and know like, Okay, I
Speaker 2: prayed for that today, or I prayed for that in
Speaker 2: this area. But God is the Lord of the harvest.
Speaker 2: Say that out loud. God is the Lord of the harvest.
Speaker 2: It's on his timetable. I trust him with the timing.
Speaker 2: He has trusted me with this task. I trust him
Speaker 2: with the timing he has trusted me with this task.
Speaker 2: My task is to trust him and to do what
Speaker 2: I can today with what He's given me. That mentality
Speaker 2: leads to a lot of freedom. That mentality leads to
Speaker 2: greater faith. Okay, it may be today, Okay, it may
Speaker 2: be today. Okay, it may be today, or it may
Speaker 2: be that today something else that I didn't even pray
Speaker 2: for comes out of the Let's call it the out
Speaker 2: of the garden of what I asked God for that
Speaker 2: he didn't do. Yet that will actually become more important
Speaker 2: than the thing that I asked for. And I could
Speaker 2: go off on that, because yesterday I did a key
Speaker 2: verse about how Boas Boas bought the land and redeemed
Speaker 2: the land, but he also got Ruth. And I did
Speaker 2: a whole devotion on the God of Also. I'll teach
Speaker 2: it here sometime soon, if I don't preaching in the
Speaker 2: pulpit first. It was such a good word for me,
Speaker 2: the God of Also. Many times what we call Also
Speaker 2: is God's top priority. Like Boas said, if you redeem
Speaker 2: the land, you also get Ruth.
Speaker 1: But of course Ruth.
Speaker 2: Ruth became the great grandmother of David, and David was
Speaker 2: of course the great, great, great, great great great great
Speaker 2: twenty eight times grandfather of Jesus. Anyway, the side note
Speaker 2: God of the Also in this passage here, you've got
Speaker 2: a woman who is very frustrated. It hasn't happened yet,
Speaker 2: looks like it never will. She goes to the temple
Speaker 2: with their husband, which they would do yearly, and she's
Speaker 2: praying before the Lord and Eli Caesar, and she's praying,
Speaker 2: but no sound is coming out, and so he's like,
Speaker 2: she must be drunk. She's like, now you misunderstand me.
Speaker 2: You're watching my actions, but you don't understand my anguish.
Speaker 2: A lot of times people judge you by your actions.
Speaker 2: They have no clue the anguish that produced those actions.
Speaker 2: You even judge yourself by your actions. Man, Why am
Speaker 2: I so so stuck? Why am I so messed up?
Speaker 2: Why am I so screwed up? Well, a lot of
Speaker 2: times that's coming from a place of anguish, from a
Speaker 2: place of desperation, from a place of I don't know
Speaker 2: what else to do, from a place of I don't
Speaker 2: feel like anybody hears me. I don't feel like anybody
Speaker 2: sees me. I feel like God has forgotten me. I've
Speaker 2: got a closed womb. But the verse that I chose
Speaker 2: from my key verse today from verse Samuel one is
Speaker 2: where after Hannah says, I'm praying out of great anguish
Speaker 2: and grief, Eli answered verse seventeen, go in peace and
Speaker 2: made the God of Israel grant you what you have
Speaker 2: asked of him. And look at verse eighteen. She said,
Speaker 2: may your servant find favor in your eyes. Then she
Speaker 2: went her way and ate something, and her face was
Speaker 2: no longer downcast verse nineteen. Early the next morning they
Speaker 2: arose and worship before the Lord, and then went back.
Speaker 1: To their home at Rama.
Speaker 2: Conna made love to his wife Hannah, and the Lord
Speaker 2: remembered her. So in the course of time, what a phrase.
Speaker 2: We talked about the course of time, sometimes leading us
Speaker 2: to disappointment because it's taken too long.
Speaker 1: But the Lord said, if you.
Speaker 2: Take the element of time out of the expectation and
Speaker 2: go man, I right now am believing God. In the
Speaker 2: course of time, Hannah became pregnant and gave birth to
Speaker 2: a son, and she named him Samuel, saying because I
Speaker 2: asked the Lord for him.
Speaker 1: But here's what I want to point out.
Speaker 2: The Bible says she did something after Samuel said, or
Speaker 2: after Eli said, rather.
Speaker 1: Go in peace. The Lord will grant your request.
Speaker 2: She did something after Eli said that that she didn't do.
Speaker 1: When Elkana came back from the temple.
Speaker 2: Other times, other years, she'd did something that she didn't
Speaker 2: wait to do it after she found out she was pregnant.
Speaker 2: She didn't have a pregnancy test and then do this.
Speaker 1: She did this after she received the assurance.
Speaker 2: That she would have what she had asked God for,
Speaker 2: and is very simple verse eighteen.
Speaker 1: Then she went her way and ate something. Then she
Speaker 1: went her.
Speaker 2: Way and ate something. Now the timing of this is
Speaker 2: very important. She didn't eat something after she found out
Speaker 2: she was pregnant. No, she ate something after she received
Speaker 2: the confirmation from Eli, who represented God's house, after she
Speaker 2: received the word that it will be fulfilled that you'll
Speaker 2: have a boy. She went her way and she ate.
Speaker 2: So I wrote down this phrase. I ate because I asked,
Speaker 2: I ate because I asked, or I I ate after
Speaker 2: I asked. And here's what I'm using that to me.
Speaker 2: Let me make sure it's not some mystical Yeah, she ate, Yeah,
Speaker 2: but she didn't eat. The other times she prayed, she
Speaker 2: sat in anguish, But this time when she prayed and
Speaker 2: her lips were moving, but her mouth wasn't saying anything.
Speaker 2: And then Eli said, are you drunk? She's like, no,
Speaker 2: I'm in anguish. And then Eli said, go in peace.
Speaker 2: The Lord has heard your request. She went away and
Speaker 2: her face was no longer downcast. She ate, She ate,
Speaker 2: and she went on her way, and she did the
Speaker 2: thing that she would do if she believed that God's
Speaker 2: word was true.
Speaker 1: I say it again.
Speaker 2: She did the thing that she would do if she
Speaker 2: believed God's word was true. The word of God said,
Speaker 2: it's gonna happen. She got up, even before being intimate
Speaker 2: with her husband. That happened the next day, but that
Speaker 2: day she ate. She ate by faith. She ate, believing
Speaker 2: that she had found favor. She asked for favor. The
Speaker 2: word of God came and she ate. She asked, and
Speaker 2: then she ate. A lot of times, we're like in
Speaker 2: a state of torment. We're calling it prayer, but really
Speaker 2: we're just in a state of anguish and confusion. And look, look, look,
Speaker 2: the devil can use it to discourage us to an
Speaker 2: even worse place, because all we're doing is just asking God, please, please, please, God,
Speaker 2: make it better, make it stup rning God, God, God, God,
Speaker 2: you know our prayers sometimes selling I'm so sorry, God,
Speaker 2: I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1: I'll do better. I'll do better. I'll do better, make
Speaker 1: a change.
Speaker 2: I think something shifted not only in Hannah's expectation, but
Speaker 2: in her energy. And she got up and she's like,
Speaker 2: I've got it, even before I've got it. Now, you
Speaker 2: get into a lot of extremes with this kind of teaching,
Speaker 2: and that's where they have it called for name it
Speaker 2: and claimant theology. They say, like, you know, we can't
Speaker 2: just name it and claim it or blab it and
Speaker 2: grab it. I'm sure you've heard all that before. Well,
Speaker 2: I'm not talking about blab it, grab it, name it claimant.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about walking the word God gave you and
Speaker 2: do the thing you would do if you believe it
Speaker 2: was true. Do the thing that you would do if
Speaker 2: you believed that it was true. Like Hannah, she got up,
Speaker 2: she went in. She was intimate. Ooh ooh. One thing
Speaker 2: Gods showed me this morning that sometimes your fear of
Speaker 2: intimacy keeps you from conceiving what God wants to do
Speaker 2: in you. It keeps you from conceiving in your mind
Speaker 2: because you don't want to sit with anything long enough,
Speaker 2: and it keeps you sometimes from conceiving anything in your relationships.
Speaker 2: It keeps you from taking the desire and making it
Speaker 2: known and seeing it fulfilled in your life. But something
Speaker 2: so simple as that little detail, I think we'll give
Speaker 2: us a mindset for how we need to approach today.
Speaker 2: Is that she asked and then she ate. She asked
Speaker 2: and then she ate. It's like Elijah laying down and
Speaker 2: the Angel comes and he's like, get up and eat something.
Speaker 2: You know, when I think of eating something in this context,
Speaker 2: I think of what we feed ourselves. I think of
Speaker 2: feeding ourselves.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: The joy of the Lord is our strength. I think
Speaker 2: of getting up in seasons of our life and believing
Speaker 2: that if we're praying for God to bring about something
Speaker 2: in our life, that we then kind of get in
Speaker 2: the mindset and get in the movements and get in
Speaker 2: the rhythms of what that's going to look like. If
Speaker 2: we're believing God to do something in our life, Let's
Speaker 2: be the kind of person that looks like we believe it.
Speaker 2: Let's don't ask God to send us opportunities but we
Speaker 2: can't find our work gloves.
Speaker 1: Let's don't ask God.
Speaker 2: To send us people, but we're very batty, and even
Speaker 2: the people that he sends would run out of our life.
Speaker 2: It's like a state of preparation, ask and then eat.
Speaker 2: But also it's a little bit deeper than that, because
Speaker 2: sometimes we ask God. I remember thinking about the song
Speaker 2: we sing a lot in my church growing up. Surely
Speaker 2: the presence of the Lord is in this place. I
Speaker 2: can feel his mighty power in his grace. I can
Speaker 2: feel the brush of angel wings. I see glory on
Speaker 2: each face. Surely the presence of the Lord is in
Speaker 2: this place. And sometimes you look around you and be like,
Speaker 2: glory on each face. I see gloom on a lot
Speaker 2: of faces, like and that's okay, Like, hey, look, I
Speaker 2: got that RBF sometimes to that resting believer's face.
Speaker 1: But I want you to understand, Oh RBF be good.
Speaker 2: I've used it before, but never with believer resting believer face.
Speaker 2: What does a resting believer face look like. Hannah before
Speaker 2: had this this anguish that was making her act a
Speaker 2: certain way, and then after she heard the word of
Speaker 2: the Lord, she had this resting believer's face. So she
Speaker 2: acted on the word that she heard. She acted as
Speaker 2: if it had already happened. She acted her way into
Speaker 2: activating the word that God gave her. She acted her
Speaker 2: way into intimacy with Elkina. She acted her way into
Speaker 2: the next season of her life.
Speaker 1: And then she.
Speaker 2: Weaned the boy and brought him back when he was ready,
Speaker 2: and he served in the temple, and she gave it
Speaker 2: back to God what God had given to her.
Speaker 1: But the first thing she did was got up and ate.
Speaker 2: So you're asking God for some things, right, or maybe
Speaker 2: you've stopped asking. You need to ask again. Ask and
Speaker 2: then eat. Don't ask and then get up and just
Speaker 2: stay in anguish about it. Ask and then eat. Ask
Speaker 2: and then feed your faith with the word of God.
Speaker 2: Ask and then ask others to help you with it.
Speaker 2: Ask and then eat. Don't ask and then starve. You're
Speaker 2: not going to get anywhere, You're not going to step
Speaker 2: into anything. You got to ask and then eat. Because
Speaker 2: what's interesting is when the passage began, Hannah was definitely
Speaker 2: she was not eating.
Speaker 1: She was being eaten.
Speaker 2: So sometimes I allow things to eat me because I
Speaker 2: won't eat what I need to eat. So then my
Speaker 2: disappointment ends up eating me because I won't get the
Speaker 2: word of God in my heart, I won't listen to
Speaker 2: a podcast that's going to give me perspective. I won't
Speaker 2: read something that's going to lift me up. I won't
Speaker 2: have conversations with healthy people who are going to challenge
Speaker 2: me to be a better self. And I won't eat
Speaker 2: so it eats me. I guess the title of this
Speaker 2: one is eat or be eaten? Eat or be eaten?
Speaker 2: Eat God's word, which is living and active.
Speaker 1: Or be eaten alive by.
Speaker 2: Anxiety and anguish and thoughts of what didn't happen. Eat
Speaker 2: gratitude and sing songs of joy and make a decision
Speaker 2: to do the thing that you would do.
Speaker 1: And lift up your countenance and lift up your eyes
Speaker 1: and bring something wonderful into the world for the people.
Speaker 2: That you love, and even for yourself, for the glory
Speaker 2: of God, and offer the life and the breath that
Speaker 2: He's given you back to him.
Speaker 1: Eat or be eaten? You got a choice to make today.
Speaker 1: Will you eat what God put right by your head,
Speaker 1: Elijah and go on your journey.
Speaker 2: Will you get up and eat and believe that what
Speaker 2: God said is going to happen in the course of time,
Speaker 2: Or will disappointment chew through your dreams and your future
Speaker 2: potential to develop what God is placed in the soil.
Speaker 1: Of your heart.
Speaker 2: Right now, Are you gonna let disappointment chew through your
Speaker 2: destiny another year? Are you gonna get up and eat,
Speaker 2: eat or be eaten? I want to be like pac
Speaker 2: Man man going through life, goblin up, pellets of praise,
Speaker 2: Goblin up pellets of purpose, goblin up the promises of God.
Speaker 2: And sometimes I don't do too good, so then they
Speaker 2: come around and get me boomo, boom, I get eaten.
Speaker 2: I want you to see that picture today. You like that,
Speaker 2: that pac Man picture. This is a little bit dated illustration,
Speaker 2: but it is very visual for those of us who
Speaker 2: grew up around arcades. Eat or be eaten, and move
Speaker 2: and keep moving because God wants to make you stronger,
Speaker 2: and God wants to bring forth awesome things. And God
Speaker 2: wants to open your womb.
Speaker 1: But if you just.
Speaker 2: Worry, worry, worry, worry, worry, your womb won't open. If
Speaker 2: you take his word, get one promise. I had one today.
Speaker 2: I put it on a post it note, I looked
Speaker 2: at it. I let it eat the anxiety away from
Speaker 2: me so that the anxiety didn't need me. Eat or
Speaker 2: be eaten. Take God's word, take this scroll, eat it
Speaker 2: it was like, Honey, God wants to give you something
Speaker 2: sweet today, not that you stay in the bitterness of
Speaker 2: your rival, provoking you. Hannah had previously been praying in
Speaker 2: the energy of her enemy. She saw her rival Panina
Speaker 2: was able to conceive if she wasn't, and she prayed
Speaker 2: out of that energy. I think something shifted when she
Speaker 2: switched her energy and she's like, I'm gonna eat. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go and be intimate with my husband. I'm going
Speaker 2: to worship the Lord. And she conceived and you can too.
Speaker 2: Maybe not tomorrow, but in the course of time if
Speaker 2: you don't let it. You've been letting things eat at
Speaker 2: you because of what you want.
Speaker 1: Eat Eat Eat, Eat this bread of life, Eat this
Speaker 1: word of God. Take it in. Oh, you feel so
Speaker 1: much better. You know the Snaker's commercial.
Speaker 2: You're not you when you're hungry, and you're not you
Speaker 2: when you're hopeless. Hannah, get up and eat. God is
Speaker 2: going to do some great things in my life today.
Speaker 1: How about you.
Speaker 2: I'm excited to see it. I'm gonna eat today. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna eat believing that what he said to me, He's
Speaker 2: going to do it. And I'm going to go into
Speaker 2: the situations that produce, not the ones that bring death.
Speaker 2: And I'm gonna live this day, blessed. All right, go
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