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The Story Finding Your Story in God’s Story “Stand Tall Fall Hard”
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The StoryFinding Your Story in God’s Story
“Stand Tall Fall Hard”
Series 1 - God Forms His People
Review Chapter 9“Faith of a Foreign
Woman”
I. Samuel – the Blessing of Dedication
1 Samuel 1:1-11
Elkanah - Why so downhearted – you have me
Hannah’s vow of dedication
1 Samuel 1:27-28
He will belong to the Lord his whole life
1 Samuel 2:11The boy served the LORD by assisting Eli the priest
1 Samuel 3:1In those days messages from the LORD were very rare, and visions were quite uncommonSamuel learns to hear the voice of the Lord
1 Samuel 3:19-4:1Samuel’s words proved to be reliableSamuel was confirmed as a prophet of God
1 Samuel 7:15-16
II. Be Careful What You Wish For
1 Samuel 8Israel wants a kingGod said - It’s me they have rejectedThey don’t want me to be their kingWarn the people what a king will doGive them a king
Saul on a Wild Donkey Chase
1 Samuel 9:15 – 10:1
Anoint Saul leader of IsraelHe will rescue the Israelites
1 Samuel 10:6-9
The Spirit of God will come upon youChanged into a different person
I will join you to make sacrificeGod gave Saul a new heart
III. To Obey is Better Than Sacrifice
1 Samuel 13:1-14
Your kingdom will endThe Lord has sought out a man after his own heart
1 Samuel 15:1-23Destroy the Amelakites completely – God settling accounts
Destroyed only what was worthlessKept the good stuff for sacrificeGod rejects Saul
1 Samuel 16:1-3
I have selected one of the sons of Jesse to be king
The Blessing of DedicationOur childrenOur occupationOur possessions
Be careful what you ask forThy will be doneNevertheless thy will be done
Sacrifice is good – but never trumps obedience