{"id":45137,"date":"2022-10-01T01:41:21","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/hannah-an-unselfish-woman-of-godly-character-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T01:41:21","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:41:21","slug":"hannah-an-unselfish-woman-of-godly-character-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/hannah-an-unselfish-woman-of-godly-character-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannah \u2014 An Unselfish Woman Of Godly Character &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first seven chapters of the book of 1st Samuel record the end of the period of the judges. Samuel was the last judge of Israel. In 1 Samuel 8:1-22, we read that the people demanded a king.<\/p>\n<p>As the book of 1st Samuel begins, we are introduced to Samuel&#8217;s mother and father (1 Samuel 1:1-8). Not much is said about his father, but as we study his mother, Hannah [Heb. &#8211; &#8220;one of grace or favor&#8221;], we begin to see something of the reason why Samuel grew to be such a great man in the service of God.<\/p>\n<p>From the text of 1 Samuel 1:1-28 and 1 Samuel 2:1-11, let us note some of the godly characteristics that Hannah displayed in her life along with applicable New Testament passages:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>From 1 Samuel 1:1-5, we see that she loved her husband despite the fact that she didn&#8217;t have children (Titus 2:4).<\/li>\n<li>From 1 Samuel 1:6-9, we see that she was patient in adversity (James 1:3-4).<\/li>\n<li>From 1 Samuel 1:6-11, we learn that she was a devout and prayerful woman (1 Thessalonians 5:17).<\/li>\n<li>From 1 Samuel 1:11, we see that she was willing to sacrifice the child she wanted in service to God (Romans 12:1-2; Philippians 3:8).<\/li>\n<li>From1 Samuel 1:12-18, we see that she was a wise woman (Ephesians 5:15).<\/li>\n<li>From 1 Samuel 1:19, we see that she was a worshipper of God (John 4:24) and a faithful wife (1 Corinthians 7:3-5).<\/li>\n<li>From 1 Samuel 1:20, we see she was thankful and acknowledged such in naming Samuel [Heb. &#8211; &#8220;Asked of God&#8221;] (1 Thessalonians 5:18).<\/li>\n<li>From 1 Samuel 1:21-23, we see that Hannah was a good mother, taking care of Samuel&#8217;s needs (Titus 2:4)<\/li>\n<li>From 1 Samuel 1:24-28, we see that Hannah kept her promises (1 Samuel 1:11; cf. Deuteronomy 23:21-23) and as Christians, we should as well (Matthew 5:37; James 5:12).<\/li>\n<li>From 1 Samuel 2:1-10, we see that Hannah acknowledged and understood the authority and power of God (Ephesians 1:17-23; cf. Philippians 2:9-10) .<\/li>\n<li>From 1 Samuel 2:11, at the appropriate time, we see that Hannah fulfilled her promise to God (1 Samuel 1:27-28) by allowing her child to immediately enter into God&#8217;s service under the direction and instruction of Eli, the high priest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Let us pray that the Lord will raise up many godly women such as Hannah who will unselfishly serve in His church\/kingdom (Matthew 16:18-19).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first seven chapters of the book of 1st Samuel record the end of the period of the judges. Samuel was the last judge of Israel. In 1 Samuel 8:1-22, we read that the people demanded a king. As the book of 1st Samuel begins, we are introduced to Samuel&#8217;s mother and father (1 Samuel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/hannah-an-unselfish-woman-of-godly-character-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hannah \u2014 An Unselfish Woman Of Godly Character &#8211; Bible study&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}