Dedicate Our Lives to The Divine

"Dedicate Our Lives to The Divine" - 1 Samuel 2:3 Hannah, the prophet's wife, prayed and said, "And He will exalt the power of her Anointed One." It wasn't a prayer for what she wanted, there was a devotion to God in it. Her words reveal a deep understanding of God, His disposition, and His deeds. Prophetically, she goes beyond the "personal" of her life to Israel's triumph over their enemies and ultimately the kingdom of Christ. (1 Samuel 2:10)

I. Her inscrutable wisdom (which cannot be known or ascertained), so Hannah saw God.

A. Hannah knew the God of all knowledge.

1. His infallible justice ("He cannot fail," or err, surely, certainly): And it is up to Him to weigh the actions.

2. Hannah poured out her heart in exaltation (praise, passion, fervor).

3. (Isaiah 40:27-28) He does not faint; He does not grow weary and His understanding "there is none that can reach it."

4. Have you not heard that "those who hope (Isaiah 40:31) in the Lord are promised new 'strength'?"

5. You have no strength, no passion, no service, no devotion, no peace, no joy, the reason; you do not wait on Jehovah God.

6. It is absurd to think that He cares for His people less than He cares for the stars, "which He guides so perfectly and thoroughly."

7. Our problem with doubting is unbelief and distrust of the all-knowing, God.

8. Many times, we talk about God as if He doesn't care about us, so we lose all hope when it comes to His presence.

9. Because God is eternal, He knows no change or decay.

10. "Being the Creator of all," He has the right and power to rule all, He will do according to our haughtiness or humility.

11. Because His intelligence is inscrutable (cannot be known or ascertained), there is no one who can thwart His designs (plan, purpose).

12. Thus, we can understand that on this earth and the wide universe one can do evil to another, even if one wants to harm someone, because it is what is in that Mind of God that will be fulfilled, not in the human who wants to do evil.

13. Because He does not faint or grow weary, there is no fear of His strength diminishing.

14. The Mighty God is Israel's strength and yours.

15. God gives strength to the weary and increases the energy of the weak.

16. God must be trusted; He is the creator of everything.

17. You want strength? trust in Him.

18. (Daniel 2:22) (28) But there is a God in heaven, who reveals mysteries.

19. God reveals the deep and the hidden.

20. Know what is in darkness, for "He dwelleth the light."

21. (Matthew 6:8) For our "Father knows what things" we need, even "before" we ask Him.

22. Then you may think: Why then pray?

23. The reason is that in prayer we recognize our need and dependence on Him.

24. It is the basis of our communication with God.

25. God also does things in answer to prayer that He would not have done otherwise.

26. Here we hit rock bottom in the very concept of prayer. We don't pray for God to know what we need, but to "realize our need ourselves and humbly show that we depend on Him in all things and "expect all things from Him."

27. The God to whom we pray is our Father.

28. (Romans 8:27) If God "searches the hearts of men, to make us plainly aware of something, He can also interpret the mindset of the Spirit, though this mind finds expression only in groaning.

29. The sure success of such intercession.

30. The searcher of hearts, God the Father, "knows what the mindset of the Spirit is, and how can He not know, if it is His own mind?

31. Since we are one with God, the Spirit intercedes for us "according to the will (two designs: purpose, plan to be carried out) of God, for He knows very well what is best for us and hears prayer as the Spirit brings them before the throne of grace.

32. The important thing is that the Holy Spirit's prayers for us are always "according to the will of God.

33. And since they are always in conformity with the will of God, they are always for our God.

34. Moaning = pain. Amen.