HEAVEN WILL HELP.

19 The Lord remembered [Hannah]. 20 So it came to pass in the process of time that Hannah conceived and bore a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, “Because I have asked for him from the Lord.”

1 Samuel 1:19-20 [NKJV]

1 I lift up my eyes to the mountains — where does my help come from? 2  My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth. 

Psalm 121:1-2 [NIV]

3 Places Heaven Sends Help.

1. Heaven Will Help Our Hurts.

6 Because the Lord had closed Hannah’s womb, her rival kept provoking her in order to irritate her.7 This went on year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the house of the Lord, her rival provoked her till she wept and would not eat. 8 Her husband Elkanah would say to her, “Hannah, why are you weeping? Why don’t you eat? Why are you downhearted? Don’t I mean more to you than ten sons?”

1 Samuel 1:6-8 [NIV]

12 As she kept on praying to the Lord, Eli observed her mouth...13 Hannah was praying in her heart, and her lips were moving but her voice was not heard. Eli thought she was drunk….15 “Not so, my lord,” Hannah replied, “I am a woman who is deeply troubled. I have not been drinking wine or beer; I was pouring out my soul to the Lord.”

1 Samuel 1:12-13, 15 [NIV]

15 This is what the Lord says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.” 16 This is what the Lord says: “Restrain your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears, for your work will be rewarded,” declares the Lord. “They will return from the land of the enemy. 17  So there is hope for your descendants,” declares the Lord. “Your children will return to their own land.”

Jeremiah 31:15-17 [NIV]

2. Heaven Will Help Our Hope.

17 Eli answered, “Go in peace, and may the God of Israel grant you what you have asked of him.” 18 She said, “May your servant find favor in your eyes.” Then she went her way and ate something, and her face was no longer downcast. 19 Early the next morning they arose and worshiped before the Lord and then went back to their home at Ramah. Elkanah made love to his wife Hannah, and the Lord remembered her.

1 Samuel 1:17-19 [NKJV]

6  This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all his troubles. 7  The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear Him, and delivers them.

Psalm 34:6-7 [ESV]

20 Bless the Lord, O you His angels, you mighty ones who do His word, obeying the voice of His word!

Psalm 103:20 [ESV]

11 For He will command His angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways.

Psalm 91:11 [ESV]

6  This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all his troubles. 7  The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear Him, and delivers them.

Psalm 34:6-7 [ESV]

14 Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation?

Hebrews 1:14 [ESV]

3. Heaven Will Help Our Home.

18 But Samuel was ministering before the Lord — a boy wearing a linen ephod. 19 Each year his mother made him a little robe and took it to him when she went up with her husband to offer the annual sacrifice. 20 Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, saying, “May the Lord give you children by this woman to take the place of the one she prayed for and gave to the Lord.” Then they would go home. 21 And the Lord was gracious to Hannah; she gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile, the boy Samuel grew up in the presence of the Lord.

1 Samuel 2:18-21 [NIV]

6 God sets the lonely in families, He leads out the prisoners with singing; but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.          

Psalm 68:6 [NIV]