Hannah’s life divulges life lessons from which we can all benefit.Īnd Hannah prayed and said, “My heart exults in the Lord my horn is exalted in the Lord. I love everything about Hannah’s story- especially her brave walk from focusing on the negative to asking God boldly for change to praising God for the positives in her life. God answered her request for a baby and she, in turn, gave him back to the Lord. Though the beginning of her story paints a quiet, mousy, anxious picture of a woman, we learn that Hannah grew to be a mama with some clout. Hannah’s prayer path moved victoriously from a tiny verse with a big request to 11 verses praising God for how she saw his glory through her life. Does not the Lord go out before you?” Judges 4:14 She certainly had the courage to tell Barak what to do:Īnd Deborah said to Barak, “Up! For this is the day in which the Lord has given Sisera into your hand. I’d like to know what Deborah ate for breakfast and maybe even how much she weighed. It was so unheard of that her fellow judge, Barak, wouldn’t go to battle without her, even though God had told him to do so. As a judge in the age where everyone in Israel did that which was right in their own eyes, Deborah set a standard that was unheard of. If you wanted to meet a woman who truly lived before her time, Deborah is the girl. I’d say that any woman in that hall is a favorite of mine. Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven and as many as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore. However, Sarah is on my list because even after she tried to help God fulfill His promise and obviously failed…and even after she laughed when the angel told her she was pregnant with child, at age 90, no doubt, she is still listed in the Faith Hall of Fame in Hebrews 11.īy faith Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered him faithful who had promised. Wow- that’s all I have to say about that. And here is a list of 5 of the most beautiful and brave women in the Bible, in no particular order:Īlright, so Sarah started out a little risky with her inability to give God the control. God told Abraham that he and Sarah would have a child and when His timing didn’t match Sarah’s, she chose to help God out a bit by giving Abraham her handmaid.

If you’d like to read it, you can find it here: Acts 16:18-40 But as a result of thinking on my favorite Bible stories and characters, after teaching the study, I reflected on some of my favorites in the Bible. Last week at women’s Bible study, I was reading the story of Paul and Silas singing praises to God in the prison it’s one of my very favorite New Testament Bible stories.

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