Heroes and Villains - Hannah: Finding Hope When It's Hopeless

We're launching a new sermon series for the summer called Heroes and Villains.  Basically we'll be looking at some folks in the scriptures, mostly in the Old Testament, who God used to impact his mission in the world.

The stories we'll be looking at are some of the more obscure ones; a lot of folks have probably never heard some of them.  While they are all unique they all have one thing in common - how God worked in the story is still affecting the world, in some way, today.

This Sunday we'll talk about Hannah and a very special prayer that changed her life completely.  Her life did a 180 as a result of the prayer she prayed.  In a nutshell, Hannah was desperate.  She was at the end of her rope, hopeless and at the biggest dead-end of her life.

Have you ever been there?  Where you just didn't see how life was ever going to make sense again?  Where you were in such pain that you couldn't even describe it with words?

That's where Hannah was.  And in the middle of her pain, in the middle of this big mess, she did something very, very wise - she prayed.  And that prayer changed everything for Hannah and ultimately changed the nation of Israel.

You can check out the sermon online here.

Here's three truths from Hannah's story that we'll unpack this Sunday:

1. God's power begins to work at the point of your hopelessness.
2. God will use your suffering but don't assume you'll be able to figure out how.
3. Sometimes all we can do is just hold on!