Hannah’s Prayer of Praise

Samuel 2 verse 1 and 2:

V1:
“My heart rejoices in the Lord! The Lord has made me strong. Now I have an answer to my enemies: I rejoice because you rescued me;”

V2: “No one is holy like the Lord! There is no one beside you; there is no Rock like our God.”

Hannah was praying and rejoicing at the same time! She was thinking of God’s blessing to the nation as well as to herself and her home. When prayer is selfish it is not spiritual and does not honor the Lord.

“I rejoice because you rescued me” suggest more than Hannah’s being delivered from barrenness. Hannah sees the miracle of her pregnancy at the beginning of new victory for the nation, who time after time had been invaded, defeated and abused by the enemy. {Judges 2 verse 10 to 23}

But the word “rescued” or saved is based on Yeshua—Joshua—the Hebrew equivalent of the Greek name Jesus {both mean ‘The Lord is Salvation’.

Hannah gives us a healthy example of prayer. It is good for us to begin our praying with praise because praise helps us focus on the glory of the Lord and not on the greatness of our needs, when we see the greatness of God, we start to see life with the right perspective.

When Hannah calls God her ‘Rock’, she is speaking of the Lord’s strength, stability, and steadfastness and magnifying the fact that He does not change.

We can depend on the Lord, for His character is unchangeable, and His Promises never fail.

God Bless.