Hannah: A great woman of prayer
God knows your story See, Grace's story is nothing more than the tale of Hannah (which means Grace) and her rival, Peninnah, or Penny for short. We find the story in 1 Samuel 1 through 1 Samuel 2:1-21. Each year, Elkanah would take his two wives, Hannah and Peninnah, to Shiloh to present a sacrifice to God and worship the Lord at the Tabernacle there. And every year it was the same for Hannah: the same insulting comments from Peninnah; the same emptiness that her husband could never fill. She walked away with her deepest longing unmet. She desired children, yet God had not opened her womb. To make matters worse, Peninnah taunted Hannah concerning her barrenness. Although Elkanah loved Hannah and was very kind to her (1 Samuel 1:5, 8), Peninnah’s unkindness on top of her natural grief was too much for Hannah to bear. Hannah cried out to God about her situation. She promised the Lord that if He would give her a son, she would dedicate him to God as a Nazirite (a man set apart