This is Sol Wise Greeting You Warmly Today!
This is the heart-warming true story
of an ordinary woman in the Bible
who had a broken heart
and decided to pray about her problem.
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9 - Can I keep my promise?
I Samuel 1 23. ..... So (Hannah) stayed home until the baby was weaned. 24. Then, though he was still so small, they took him to the Tabernacle in Shiloh, along with a three-year-old bull for the sacrifice, and a bushel of flour and some wine. 25. After the sacrifice they took the child to Eli. 26. "Sir, do you remember me?" Hannah asked him. "I am the woman who stood here that time praying to the Lord! 27. I asked him to give me this child, and he has given me my request; 28. and now I am giving him to the Lord for as long as he lives." So she left him there at the Tabernacle for the Lord to use. LB Many people like Hannah would have looked at her own heart and said that it was now too painful to keep her promise to God by giving her son back to Him. But this was not Hannah's attitude. She kept her promise to God and gave her son back to Him. Was that difficult to do? Undoubtedly. It was probably the single most difficult thing she had ever done in her life. She probably agonised over it all the time Samuel was that beautiful baby in her arms. But Hannah's attitude was Have you made promises to God in a time of difficulty? Have you kept them? Or is it now too difficult for you to do so? Prayer: Father, I have promised to take the direction for my life from You and Your word. Help me to be a person of integrity like Your servant Hannah, and keep this promise from today to the end of my life, in Jesus' name, Amen. 
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