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A Study in The Life of Samuel:
"Ministering in the Middle of Your Mishap"
I Samuel 1:1-5;10-13; 20; 27-28
Rev. Darryl K. Fields
August 12, 2012
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Scripture Text- I Samuel 1:1-5 KJV-CIT: Hannah ministered to God in the middle of her maternal mishap.
MOJ: Consecrative At the completion of the sermon the church will know we serve God even when times are severe.
Specific Enabling Objectives
1.
The church will recognize MISHAPS happen.
2. The church will value being in the MIDDLE of God’s happenings.
3. The church will commit to staying out of the MARGINS and in the middle of God’s will.
Introduction
There is something about being in the middle.
The middle can bring out the best and most often the worst in us.
For example, Middle School is often a time of difficultly and adjustment for adolescent.
Even being Middle aged is time when some people have what some call a “mid-life crisis.”
Or maybe you are just the middle child born to your parents.
So, they assigned you disorder called “middle child syndrome.”
(Am I right about it?)
It can be hard to be in the middle of somethings.
The middle is often a time trying and testing.
The “middle” points to having as much behind you as you have before you.
The middle will make some people pessimistic and others optimist.
A cup filled to the mid point will lead some to it is half full while others say the cup is half empty.
And such is the case of the modern day Church.
We are in the Middle of a recession, depression and if there is honest confession we will admit some church folks will stop “Ministering in the Middle of a Mishap.”
Background
I don’t want to jump into the middle of the text, but I do believe some of us are missing chances to “Minister in the Middle of our Mishaps.”
Elkanah’s wife Hannah was in a the middle of a mishap.
According to verse 5 she was barren and in the middle of that she was burdened according to verse 8.
There are barren and burdened folks around us today.
And some of them go to church to provoke and not to praise.
I’m in the text because Pininnah according to verses 6-7 “provoked” Hannah “to make her fret.”
This doesn’t happen at Union, but some folks show up to church to cause “fret” and not to fellowship.
That’s why the Psalmist David reminds us, “Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.”
(Psalm37:1) They may want fret, but lets fellowship!
They may even provoke, but we are going to praise.
Christians have been presented the profession of ministering in mishaps.
Ministering is your service to God.
The Bible say, “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice...” (Romans 12:1) That you present your bodies...
You can’t pre-sent what your not present for.
The text says in verse 3 that Elkanah “went up...yearly to worship.”
Elkanah went up regularly in worship and sacrifice.
To minister to God in accordance with the Exodus instruction on the Jewish feast.
In other words, Elkanah was present to pre-sent.
Matter fact, tell your neighbor, “you got to be present to pre-sent.”
When it was time to present Elkanah was present and accounted for.
Elkanah was a minister to his family and foremost to God.
Verses 4 & 5 say he gave “portions” to his wives and children.
Elkanah in today’s lingo, “broke his peeps off a little something.”
He blessed them materially and spiritually.
We need more Elknah’s.
He did not miss the chance to Minister because of a Mishap.
Mishap is short for mis-happening.
Mishaps are those things in life that happen that you would rather miss.
Car broke down; kids in trouble; bills unpaid; layoffs; shutdowns and shut offs...those are mishaps.
Let me parenthetically say that some mishaps you can miss if we just recognize somethings are going to happen.
You lose your check at the casino!
Some stuff is going to happen.
Repossessions are going to happen; shut offs are going to happen.
(Amen somebody) Somethings are going to happen.
Some of us misappropriations is mishap when already know what’s going to happen.
Things happen and some are mishaps.
But, nothing ever happens that God misses.
The Bible says, “Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.”
(Psalm 121:4) It maybe a mishap to you, but nothing happens that God misses.
Nothing happens that is such a mishap that God can’t turn mishap into a miracle.
Does anybody in this house of God believe God can turn Mishaps into Miracles.
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to [his] purpose.
(Romans 8:28) God can turn a mishap into a miracle.
That’s a word of encouragement for some in the middle of a mishap, right now.
Maybe, you’re in the middle of a messed up marriage.
God can turn a mishap into a miracle.
Or you struggling with a situation.
God can turn a mishap into a miracle.
Maybe you can’t see Christ in your circumstance.
God can turn a mishap into a miracle.
Do you believe that?
You maybe in the middle of a mishap, but turn your mishap into a miracle.
The Bible says, “For with God nothing shall be impossible.”
(Luke 1:37) With all the mess and mishaps in the world Christians can’t go MIA (Missing In Action) when it is time to minister.
We are called to “Minister in the Middle of Mishaps.”
Exposition
Hannah is teaching us how to manage the mishaps that are in the middle of our lives.
Don’t Mess Up Because of A Mishap. (Vs.
13)
Mishaps mess a bunch of us up! Hannah manages one mishap after another with the precision of a master.
Look at verse 13.
Hannah is at the shrine at Shiloh praying, pouring out her heart to the point her voice was not heard.
I want you to see this she is hurt.
She got evil doers trying fret her!
She got folks that supposed to praisers and even a priest now provoking her.
But, there’s something about practicing praisers, who can get a prayer through.
The text says, “Eli thought she had been drunken.”
Hannah was just pouring out her soul.
Now, she has a mishap with the minister of God!
She been dealing with burden of barreness.
And with all that she still doesn’t mess up! Can I tell you why?
Because she knows the same God that closed her womb, created her womb and that same God can allow a child to come her womb.
You’ll missing it!
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