'Hannah was speaking in her heart; only her lips moved, and her voice was not heard. Therefore Eli took her to be a drunken woman... but Hannah answered, "No, my lord, I am a woman troubled in spirit. I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I have been pouring out my soul before the Lord."'
Don't push it! Maybe some of the people in your pews won't sing or pray together visibly, but we'd never know that those people may pray or worship the Lord in their heart like how Hannah was speaking in her heart. Some of us may dance and lift our hands up, but some of us may stand up stiffly and quietly with the groaning in our hearts, crying out to the Lord. The people standing beside those quiet people may think that they aren't spiritually enough to worship Him like how Eli thought Hannah was drunk. We may be wrong! Those quiet people like Hannah who didn't use her voice (or hands) may have shown their authenticity toward God through their hearts' groaning in prayer, "I believe that You are the Lord and that You can do everything through Your Name!"
'And the Lord remembered her. And in due time Hannah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Samuel, for she said, "I have asked for him from the Lord."'
God gave each of us dream seeds inside us and in due time they will be conceived in us and we will bore those dreams. I don't know what your dreams are, but are we groaning for those dreams to be planted into us? Maybe we aren't being broken enough to groan for them? Let's ask God to break us down so that we may begin to groan for those dreams to be planted in us when we began to realize that our God is the Lord.
"Pray like it depends on God, work like it depends on you"
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