The God who Hears, Day 2 God is the provider. Read 1 Samuel chapter 2. As we look and understand this 2nd chapter of a 1 Samuel, we see the joy that Hannah describes as she praises God for the birth of her son Samuel. She understands and shares a very important truth about who God is. God is the one who gives and God is the one who takes away. Everything we have and everything we don’t have is a result of God’s allowing it in our life. We can be frustrated by what we don’t have, but we misunderstand that God is the one who brings us everything…

The God who Hears, Day 1 The God who hears. Read 1 Samuel chapter 1. When you read through the history of the people of Israel, so much of what happens can be boiled down to the phrase, “the God who hears.” You see, as the people are going through situations, they cry out to God and he hears them. He hears them as a nation and he hears them as individuals. This chapter starts off two books of history of the nation of Israel, and it begins with a story of a woman in distress who cried out to God, and he heard her. So many times we turn…