Morning Prayer, Wednesday, December 17, 2025 - WORD(S) OF THE DAY:  THE SILENT PRAYER

Father God, thank You for hearing and answering even the prayers I speak in my heart.  Amen

“[13] Hannah was praying in her heart, and though her lips were moving, her voice could not be heard. So Eli thought she was drunk and said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Put away your wine! No, my lord,” Hannah replied. “I am a woman troubled in spirit. I have not had any wine or strong drink, but I have poured out my soul before the LORD.  Do not take your servant for a wicked woman, for all this time I have been praying out of the depth of my anguish and grief.  Go in peace,” Eli replied, “and may the God of Israel grant the petition you have asked of Him . . . So in the course of time, Hannah conceived and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, saying, “Because I have asked for him from the LORD.”  (I Samuel 1:13-17, 20 NIV)

“God is the best listener.  He hears even the silent prayer of a sincere heart?”  Hannah was a woman who was probably frustrated and devasted that she was unable to bear children.  She had gone before God countless times asking for a child.  It must hurt to see the excitement on her family members, friends and neighbors face when they announced their pregnancy.  You can almost hear her crying out in her soul, “God when?  When will it be my time?”  One day Hannah goes to the temple and falls down at the altar, praying.  Thing is, she wasn’t praying out loud.  Sometimes, you don’t need to speak into the atmosphere what you are believing God for.  Why, because the devil just may use it against you.  Be like Hannah and pray silently in your heart.  God hears even the prayers in our heart.  We may not get what we want right away, but in God’s time, it will happen.  Like Hannah, we just have to believe.  The fact that Hannah kept showing up before God, says she believed.  Eli tells her to go in peace, and may God grant what she asked.  Not soon after she conceived.

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"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."  John 3:16