Silence Your Peninnah

I know God used this experience to train me to trust Him instead of murmuring about the unfairness. The only option for the righteous is to turn to the Lord and trust His judgment and trust His training programme. When it all comes down to it, the wicked go to hell, so any annoyance at their prospering is only envy which must be sacrificed by faith.

The reality is, the wicked prosper to stir the righteous and this forces the righteous to give up their envy of position and grow in spiritual strength. If the father enforces his authority from a platform of positional envy the spirit behind his wife and children will dictate their wills over his.

1 Samuel 1:6-20

The 1 st question you should ask yourself when faced with a Peninnah experience is …. God, what are you trying to teach me about me? God measures by spirit not by deeds. Why did God choose Hannah and not Peninnah?

Why did God love Jacob and hate Esau? Why did Jesus forgive the adulteress but hates adultery? Why did Jesus eat with prostitutes? Does He like prostitution? As mentioned in Romans 9, most people are designed by God to be used by Satan as a means of diverting people away from God and His ultimate plan for them and His kingdom. But God uses this apparent contradiction to test and strengthen His genuine remnant.

God has an agenda for His entire remnant. My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into diverse temptations, knowing that the trying of your faith works patience, but let patience have its perfect work that you may be perfect and entire wanting nothing for yourself. May God soften the hearts of His remnant via the pain of faith for His eternal glory.

Firstly, it was a test for Hannah to see which way she would turn Secondly, and more importantly, it was to get a Samuel for the kingdom of God. Thirdly, it was to prove that God is above every circumstance and every impossibility. Don't I mean more to you than ten sons? She was deeply distressed, and she cried bitterly as she prayed to the LORD. Meanwhile, Eli the priest was sitting in his place by the door. Hannah made a solemn promise: See my trouble and remember me! If you give me a son, I promise that I will dedicate him to you for his whole life and that he will never have his hair cut.

Our lives and situations and experiences are all unique, we all have agency, and ultimately the accountability for our actions will rest solely on ourselves, so all we can do is rely on the Lord and commune with him so that we can know His plan for us.

I just had to get it all out. Great food for thought, I too have been far too judgmental about others choices in regards to children.

1 Samuel 1:6-28

Thanks so much for you thoughts on this topic. It is something I have thought about over and over. I think sometimes we get a little self-centered in these kinds of decisions and life choices. When we make these choices of how many children to have, how far to space them, breastfeeding, circumcision And, hopefully, we make them in conjunction with much prayer and fasting.

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Maybe sometimes we get in this mindset of "I received revelation that this is how it is to be done. What is good for me and my family may not be what is good for another. I have been guilty too many times of thinking others are not doing for their children what is best, etc. And I am always working on not judging others. Thank you for helping me think about this more and realize what it means for me. Thank you for sharing so much history. There is a lot of valuable information that I wish everyone could read while studying this story.

I recently suffered a miscarriage and God lead me to study 1 Samuel and of course Hannah's story is in the first chapter. I had not thought about the points you made of being less judge mental and feeling less criticized. I would love to just stop caring what everyone else thinks about my mourning process. I admire Hannah for being able to just pray and put her situation into Gods hands.

She stood up, wiped her tears and went away a little more content. Then he gave her even more children.