1 Samuel

We come this morning to the end of our summer series on the life and ministry of Samuel. I invite you to turn in your Bibles to 1 Samuel chapter 12. Rather than reading the whole chapter at the beginning, we’ll move through this scene by scene and read the verses as come to them….

Heavenly Father, we pray for Your grace. We don’t pray in this brief moment before the sermon because that’s just how we start sermons; we pray because we need Your help. We need ears to hear or this will be wasted time. I need Your Spirit, or what I preach will just be my own…

I encourage you to turn in your Bibles to 1 Samuel, chapter 7. 1 Samuel, chapter 7. In chapter 4 we saw the Philistines defeat the Israelites and so the Israelites bring the ark into battle, but they presume upon the Lord and they are defeated again, and the ark is captured. In chapter 5…

Father in heaven, help us. Help us to listen, to pay attention, to not be distracted, to not be overcome with hunger or curiosity about what’s happening on the other side of our phones, but to give You our attention. It’s not so important that anyone here hear from a mere man, but we want…

Heavenly Father, we come once again, not merely out of habit or custom, but out of our sense of deep need, that we want to hear from You. Give me the words to say and help me to say them in the right way, and give us ears to listen, that You may strengthen us,…

Our heavenly Father, as we think of those two truths, our worth and our unworthiness, we come to Your Word asking, believing in faith, that You would speak to us, tell us just what we need to hear, cut through all of the distractions. May we hear not simply a man speaking behind a pulpit…