July 21, 2025 • 26 mins
Pastor Vera McEwen is incredibly excited to give an open welcome to all at Love God Ministries! An online community where all truly are welcome, Pastor Vera embodies the Love of Christ through witness and discipleship. She founded Love God Ministries because conversations with people revealed a need for a community of believers where it does not matter how you look but recognize that you are a child of God.
Pastor Vera has been teaching and preaching the Good News of Jesus Christ and the Word of God for over 30 years. Her primary emphasis is spreading God's Love by providing pastoral care, preaching God's Loving Word, teaching God's Light-Filled Word, and implementing God's Living relational group architecture via in home communities.
She is currently reviewing the prospects of a doctorate in religious studies with an emphasis on Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic as encouraged by her professors at seminary. In addition to her vocation as Pastor she ministers as a certified professional and personal coach.
With God's help, she implements 1 Thessalonians 5.11, motivating people to be and do their very best by building one another up. Pastor Vera is a joyous, ever singing sister in Christ who after years of being pursued by God, stopped running and answered the call, halleluiah, הַלְלוּיָה
https://www.lovegod-ministries.org/
Pastor Vera has been teaching and preaching the Good News of Jesus Christ and the Word of God for over 30 years. Her primary emphasis is spreading God's Love by providing pastoral care, preaching God's Loving Word, teaching God's Light-Filled Word, and implementing God's Living relational group architecture via in home communities.
She is currently reviewing the prospects of a doctorate in religious studies with an emphasis on Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic as encouraged by her professors at seminary. In addition to her vocation as Pastor she ministers as a certified professional and personal coach.
With God's help, she implements 1 Thessalonians 5.11, motivating people to be and do their very best by building one another up. Pastor Vera is a joyous, ever singing sister in Christ who after years of being pursued by God, stopped running and answered the call, halleluiah, הַלְלוּיָה
https://www.lovegod-ministries.org/
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
The following content is provided by I am Refocused radio
contributor Pastor Vera McEwen with Love God Ministries. We'll be
sharing today's message and now here is your host, Pastor
Vera McEwen.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
The short version of today's message is God is listening.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
God is listening, So ask, seek and knock.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
That's your version for one minute to listen. Now, let's
take a deeper dive. Turn with me to First Samuel.
First Samuel, Chapter one is a glorious narrative. A narrative
(01:04):
of a woman, a woman who is abused, a woman
who is belittled, A woman who is berated and ostracized
by the key woman in her community. Her name is Hannah.
(01:30):
Hannah comes to us in First Samuel weeping, bitterly depressed
because she is being bullied. Though she has a loving
husband who loves her with all of his heart. She
(01:56):
is in community with a woman who is able to
bear children. However, Hannah had not been able to bear children,
and this woman in her community belittles her, abuses her,
(02:23):
causing her to be depressed.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
And feel ostracized.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I ask you, are you in a community that calls
itself loving? However, allows the continued abuse of who you are.
Are people texting you and being bullying? Are people sending
(02:55):
you messages verbally and then saying, Oh, but I love you. Yeah,
your hair looks like the color purple verra, but I
love you. We learn how to pray, petition, and be
(03:20):
persistent through Hannah.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
In the scripture reading.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
For today, First Samuel, chapter one, beginning in verse.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Nine, we see that Hannah has gone on a pilgrimage,
a pilgrimage where she will not only ask, seek and knock.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
For the Lord, a pilgrimage where she will petition and
pray and praise God. Imagine Hannah on this pilgrimage, this.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Journey from Ramah, her hometown.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Going to Shiloh, where the priest and the lord's houses,
feeling dejected, ostracized.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Girl.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
I like those pants, but you could have some better shoes.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Er.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Yeah, when was the last time you?
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Yeah, head down cast, not realizing who she is, how
she was created, weeping bitterly.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
When we dive into this word. She reaches.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
The door of the Lord's house and the priest Eli
sees her as she goes in. Now her community that
arrived had been drinking and celebrating their arrival.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
After this long eight.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Hour pilgrimage from Rama to Shiloh, they had been eating
and drinking. It does not say that Hannah had been
eating or drinking.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
She approaches the Lord's house and Eli the priest is there, and.
Speaker 7 (05:32):
In verse ten it says, in her deep anguish Hannah
prayed to the Lord, weeping bitterly.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
God is listening.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
God is listening to you before you begin to weep bitterly.
God hears you when those people deject you, ostracize you,
abuse you, text you bad messages, send you terrible social media.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
God is listening.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
When you ask, and Hannah, Hannah here in verse eleven acts.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
She asked by making a.
Speaker 8 (06:33):
Bow, saying, Lord Almighty, if you only look on your
servant's misery, remember me now.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Last week we talked about that. Ask seek not in remembrance.
Remember me, God, Remember your love for me. Remember who
I am. God is listening.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Ask, seek knock. In verse eleven, she makes her prayer known.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
To God through.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
A sys thematic ask, and it is verse twelve that
we see her sinking the Lord diligently, deliberately, she says,
as she kept on praying to the Lord, the priest
(07:41):
as Hannah's praying, the priest is watching, and she gets
so deep in her sinking out the Lord.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
That her mouth begins to move.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
And she's.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Bitterly, but not a word is coming out because she's
moved from the ask in verse eleven to the actual
sinking God.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
And it says, levev through her heart. She's sinking.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
There are times when we have to move from the
ask to the bitter weeping in the sinking of God.
And this is where Hannah is. Her mouth is moving
(08:48):
and yet her mouth is not saying a word.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Verse thirteen tells.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Us that Hannah is pre in her heart and her
lips were moving, but her voice was not heard.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
This is where Hannah moves.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
She moves from the ask, from the seek to the knock,
and that changes everything. God is listening when you ask.
(09:39):
God is listening when you seek. But something changes, and we're.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Gonna talk about that a little later.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Something changes when you have to knock at the Lord's door.
Eli thinks she's drunk and says, what's wrong with you
drinking and coming in here?
Speaker 3 (10:03):
And Hannah says, oh no, I am not drunk. I
am not drunk.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
She says, your servant here is praying, praying to God,
bitterly weeping. I am in anguish, is what she says.
Do not take your servant for a wicked woman. I
have been praying here out of my great anguish and grief.
(10:34):
Eli tells her, go in peace.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
And may God grant what you have asked for.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
You see, when Hannah.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Begins knocking with her heart voice, it.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Changes and turns the upside down and writes everything. And
not only has this knocking changed what comes to pass,
but Hannah now has a different presence about her. No
longer is she weeping in this way, in this manner.
(11:18):
No longer is she feeling dejected, ostracized, and outside of everything.
No longer will the verbal abuse come to her and
go into her, but it will literally bounce off of.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Her because she is a new creation after knocking. I
tell you God is listening when you ask. God is
listening when you seek. God is listening when you knock.
(11:53):
Turn with me to.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
The song of the Days. Eighty six, the Psalmist says,
hear me, hear me when I cry out to you.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
God is listening when you pray.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
That is the ask in verse two through four. Take
a look at it with me, God, my life.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
It says, have mercy on me, bring me joy. That's
the ask. God is listening.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
The seink happens in verses five through six. Look here,
it says, you, Lord are forgiving and good. Hear my
prayer seeking out God, my cry. Hear my cry for
mercy like Hannah's weeping.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
That crying. Hear me God when I'm knocking.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
And of course it says, when I am in distress,
I call to you, because you answer me. God is
listening when you are in distress. God is listening when
(13:16):
you are depressed and feeling dejected. God is listening when
your heart is knocking at the door, Ask, seek, knock.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
I love the next short verses.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Because in John chapter fourteen, verses thirteen through fourteen, Jesus
tells us what will happen when we ask, when we seek,
when we will when we.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Knock. Jesus says, I will do it. Ask and I
will do it. Verse thirteen. Whatever you ask in my name,
so that the.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Father may be glorified in the sun, Jesus says, you
may ask me for anything, and I will do it.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Ask, seek, knock.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
In today's gospel reading, we learn what The knocking is
all about you.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
See, we ask and God is listening. We seek.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
And God is listening. And when we knock, something incredible happens.
In Matthew Matthew, chapter seven, beginning in verse seven through
verse twelve, that's.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
The reading for the day. Take some time and read
it on your own. It tells us to ask and
it will be given to you. To seek and you
will find.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
To knock and the door will be opened to you.
For everyone who asks receive, the one who seeks finds,
and the one who knocks the door will be opened.
The Greek word for ask is a tel. The Greek
(15:46):
word for sink is zitdale. The Greek word for knock
is cruel, ask, seek, knock. Why is it so important
this creole. It is so important to knock because it
(16:13):
changes things. Yes, Jesus says, I will do it when
you ask.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Yes, Jesus is listening. When we seek and we find God.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
But when we knock, it's an audaciousness that happens, like
we talked about last week in our petition, Because outside
of the door before we knock, where we are right now.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Is the streets, and it is the streets.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
That will overwhelm you, that will abuse you, that will
take you literally out.
Speaker 9 (16:55):
But when you knock, you move from the outside of
a relationship with God.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Into a new realm of relationship.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
When you knock, God is listening, and you will find
that you can.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Hear the door begin to open as God opens the
door for you.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
This is different, you.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
See, because it is a physical entry into a change
from the outside of a physical entry into the realm
of God in relationship.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Where God can meet you all the way something happens.
It's eschatological because the soul changes when you leave the
street realm.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
The soul changes when you migrate from the street realm.
When you pilgrim and knock on that door, it changes you.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Because you are now in a soul relationship with God,
and it is the end of the other things.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
The word eschatology estacological also is Greek related.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
It's two words moving out of. You're moving out of
the streets out of and an end to something.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
It's an end to whatever was happening back there, and
then allowing God to close the door behind.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
You as you bask in the presence of the Lord.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
I tell you, when Hannah asked setting out that fowl.
God was already receiving Hannah. When Hannah sought God out
with all her heart.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
God was found by her.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
And when she knocked, when she knocked on that door
with her heart not able to speak the words, the
knob on that.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Door began to change and turn.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
And she migrated from her pilgrimage where her her women
in community were belittling her, bereting her, and that all
slid off her back. She entered into the holy realm
relationship with God in triune community.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
What happened to her was a transformation.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
You need to read all of Fir Samuel chapter one,
and then you can learn and understand her joy, because
her joy begins in chapter two.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Hannah, praise this.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Now you might be thinking, well, okay, so I asked,
I saw, I knocked, and I received exactly what I needed.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
But it doesn't stop there. God is listening. Now you're
in real relationship with God.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
And now you can commune with God and triune.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
And prayer.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
In speaking in heartfelt knocking all the time. Hannah's prayer
in chapter two begins with my heart rejoices in the Lord.
In the Lord, my horn is lifted high, my mouth
the boasts over my enemies, for I delight in your deliverance,
(21:37):
because when she noted, she was delivered.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Out of her distress by the Lord. There is no
one holy like the Lord. There is no one besides you.
There is no rock like my God.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Is what Hannah tells God in her prayer, after God
answers her. Do not keep talking so proudly, or let
your mouth speak such arrogance.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
For the Lord is a god who knows, and by
God deeds are weighed.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
The bowels of the warriors are broken, but those who
stumble are armed with strength. Those who were full hire
themselves out for food, But those who were hungry are
hungry no more.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
She This is where it gets real, she asked.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
She sought, I add zetio, and then she crew ooh knocked.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
She was barren.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
She she who was barren, has been come.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Born to seven children. But she who has many sons,
pines away. The Lord brings death and makes alive. God
brings down the grave and rises up. The Lord sends
poverty and wealth. God humbles and God exalts. God rises
(23:26):
the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from
the ash heap.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
God sets.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Them among the princes, and God has them inherit the
throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are
the lords. On them God has set the world. God
will guard the feet of the faithful. The wicked will
(24:03):
be silenced in the place of darkness. It is not
by strength that one prevails. Those who oppose the Lord
will be broken. The most High will thunder from heaven.
(24:23):
The Lord will judge the ends of the earth. God
will get strength and exalt the horn of the anointed.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
God.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
God is listening to you. Ask, you will receive, ito.
Speaker 10 (24:58):
Receive, Seek, still seek and you will be found.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
And find not with all your heart, and it will
be given to you. Be the peace.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Of our Lord, Jesus Christ be with you allways. Share
that peace. Share that peace with one another. As you ask,
as you seek, as you knock. God is listening these
(25:58):
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The following content is provided by I am Refocused radio
contributor Pastor Vera McEwen with Love God Ministries. We'll be
sharing today's message and now here is your host, Pastor
Vera McEwen.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
The short version of today's message is God is listening.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
God is listening, So ask, seek and knock.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
That's your version for one minute to listen. Now, let's
take a deeper dive. Turn with me to First Samuel.
First Samuel, Chapter one is a glorious narrative. A narrative
(01:04):
of a woman, a woman who is abused, a woman
who is belittled, A woman who is berated and ostracized
by the key woman in her community. Her name is Hannah.
(01:30):
Hannah comes to us in First Samuel weeping, bitterly depressed
because she is being bullied. Though she has a loving
husband who loves her with all of his heart. She
(01:56):
is in community with a woman who is able to
bear children. However, Hannah had not been able to bear children,
and this woman in her community belittles her, abuses her,
(02:23):
causing her to be depressed.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
And feel ostracized.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I ask you, are you in a community that calls
itself loving? However, allows the continued abuse of who you are.
Are people texting you and being bullying? Are people sending
(02:55):
you messages verbally and then saying, Oh, but I love you. Yeah,
your hair looks like the color purple verra, but I
love you. We learn how to pray, petition, and be
(03:20):
persistent through Hannah.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
In the scripture reading.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
For today, First Samuel, chapter one, beginning in verse.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Nine, we see that Hannah has gone on a pilgrimage,
a pilgrimage where she will not only ask, seek and knock.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
For the Lord, a pilgrimage where she will petition and
pray and praise God. Imagine Hannah on this pilgrimage, this.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Journey from Ramah, her hometown.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Going to Shiloh, where the priest and the lord's houses,
feeling dejected, ostracized.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Girl.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
I like those pants, but you could have some better shoes.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Er.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Yeah, when was the last time you?
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Yeah, head down cast, not realizing who she is, how
she was created, weeping bitterly.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
When we dive into this word. She reaches.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
The door of the Lord's house and the priest Eli
sees her as she goes in. Now her community that
arrived had been drinking and celebrating their arrival.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
After this long eight.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Hour pilgrimage from Rama to Shiloh, they had been eating
and drinking. It does not say that Hannah had been
eating or drinking.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
She approaches the Lord's house and Eli the priest is there, and.
Speaker 7 (05:32):
In verse ten it says, in her deep anguish Hannah
prayed to the Lord, weeping bitterly.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
God is listening.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
God is listening to you before you begin to weep bitterly.
God hears you when those people deject you, ostracize you,
abuse you, text you bad messages, send you terrible social media.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
God is listening.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
When you ask, and Hannah, Hannah here in verse eleven acts.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
She asked by making a.
Speaker 8 (06:33):
Bow, saying, Lord Almighty, if you only look on your
servant's misery, remember me now.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Last week we talked about that. Ask seek not in remembrance.
Remember me, God, Remember your love for me. Remember who
I am. God is listening.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Ask, seek knock. In verse eleven, she makes her prayer known.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
To God through.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
A sys thematic ask, and it is verse twelve that
we see her sinking the Lord diligently, deliberately, she says,
as she kept on praying to the Lord, the priest
(07:41):
as Hannah's praying, the priest is watching, and she gets
so deep in her sinking out the Lord.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
That her mouth begins to move.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
And she's.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Bitterly, but not a word is coming out because she's
moved from the ask in verse eleven to the actual
sinking God.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
And it says, levev through her heart. She's sinking.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
There are times when we have to move from the
ask to the bitter weeping in the sinking of God.
And this is where Hannah is. Her mouth is moving
(08:48):
and yet her mouth is not saying a word.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Verse thirteen tells.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Us that Hannah is pre in her heart and her
lips were moving, but her voice was not heard.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
This is where Hannah moves.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
She moves from the ask, from the seek to the knock,
and that changes everything. God is listening when you ask.
(09:39):
God is listening when you seek. But something changes, and we're.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Gonna talk about that a little later.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Something changes when you have to knock at the Lord's door.
Eli thinks she's drunk and says, what's wrong with you
drinking and coming in here?
Speaker 3 (10:03):
And Hannah says, oh no, I am not drunk. I
am not drunk.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
She says, your servant here is praying, praying to God,
bitterly weeping. I am in anguish, is what she says.
Do not take your servant for a wicked woman. I
have been praying here out of my great anguish and grief.
(10:34):
Eli tells her, go in peace.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
And may God grant what you have asked for.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
You see, when Hannah.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Begins knocking with her heart voice, it.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Changes and turns the upside down and writes everything. And
not only has this knocking changed what comes to pass,
but Hannah now has a different presence about her. No
longer is she weeping in this way, in this manner.
(11:18):
No longer is she feeling dejected, ostracized, and outside of everything.
No longer will the verbal abuse come to her and
go into her, but it will literally bounce off of.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Her because she is a new creation after knocking. I
tell you God is listening when you ask. God is
listening when you seek. God is listening when you knock.
(11:53):
Turn with me to.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
The song of the Days. Eighty six, the Psalmist says,
hear me, hear me when I cry out to you.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
God is listening when you pray.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
That is the ask in verse two through four. Take
a look at it with me, God, my life.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
It says, have mercy on me, bring me joy. That's
the ask. God is listening.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
The seink happens in verses five through six. Look here,
it says, you, Lord are forgiving and good. Hear my
prayer seeking out God, my cry. Hear my cry for
mercy like Hannah's weeping.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
That crying. Hear me God when I'm knocking.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
And of course it says, when I am in distress,
I call to you, because you answer me. God is
listening when you are in distress. God is listening when
(13:16):
you are depressed and feeling dejected. God is listening when
your heart is knocking at the door, Ask, seek, knock.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
I love the next short verses.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Because in John chapter fourteen, verses thirteen through fourteen, Jesus
tells us what will happen when we ask, when we seek,
when we will when we.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Knock. Jesus says, I will do it. Ask and I
will do it. Verse thirteen. Whatever you ask in my name,
so that the.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Father may be glorified in the sun, Jesus says, you
may ask me for anything, and I will do it.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Ask, seek, knock.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
In today's gospel reading, we learn what The knocking is
all about you.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
See, we ask and God is listening. We seek.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
And God is listening. And when we knock, something incredible happens.
In Matthew Matthew, chapter seven, beginning in verse seven through
verse twelve, that's.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
The reading for the day. Take some time and read
it on your own. It tells us to ask and
it will be given to you. To seek and you
will find.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
To knock and the door will be opened to you.
For everyone who asks receive, the one who seeks finds,
and the one who knocks the door will be opened.
The Greek word for ask is a tel. The Greek
(15:46):
word for sink is zitdale. The Greek word for knock
is cruel, ask, seek, knock. Why is it so important
this creole. It is so important to knock because it
(16:13):
changes things. Yes, Jesus says, I will do it when
you ask.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Yes, Jesus is listening. When we seek and we find God.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
But when we knock, it's an audaciousness that happens, like
we talked about last week in our petition, Because outside
of the door before we knock, where we are right now.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Is the streets, and it is the streets.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
That will overwhelm you, that will abuse you, that will
take you literally out.
Speaker 9 (16:55):
But when you knock, you move from the outside of
a relationship with God.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Into a new realm of relationship.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
When you knock, God is listening, and you will find
that you can.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Hear the door begin to open as God opens the
door for you.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
This is different, you.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
See, because it is a physical entry into a change
from the outside of a physical entry into the realm
of God in relationship.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Where God can meet you all the way something happens.
It's eschatological because the soul changes when you leave the
street realm.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
The soul changes when you migrate from the street realm.
When you pilgrim and knock on that door, it changes you.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Because you are now in a soul relationship with God,
and it is the end of the other things.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
The word eschatology estacological also is Greek related.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
It's two words moving out of. You're moving out of
the streets out of and an end to something.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
It's an end to whatever was happening back there, and
then allowing God to close the door behind.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
You as you bask in the presence of the Lord.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
I tell you, when Hannah asked setting out that fowl.
God was already receiving Hannah. When Hannah sought God out
with all her heart.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
God was found by her.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
And when she knocked, when she knocked on that door
with her heart not able to speak the words, the
knob on that.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Door began to change and turn.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
And she migrated from her pilgrimage where her her women
in community were belittling her, bereting her, and that all
slid off her back. She entered into the holy realm
relationship with God in triune community.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
What happened to her was a transformation.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
You need to read all of Fir Samuel chapter one,
and then you can learn and understand her joy, because
her joy begins in chapter two.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Hannah, praise this.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Now you might be thinking, well, okay, so I asked,
I saw, I knocked, and I received exactly what I needed.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
But it doesn't stop there. God is listening. Now you're
in real relationship with God.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
And now you can commune with God and triune.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
And prayer.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
In speaking in heartfelt knocking all the time. Hannah's prayer
in chapter two begins with my heart rejoices in the Lord.
In the Lord, my horn is lifted high, my mouth
the boasts over my enemies, for I delight in your deliverance,
(21:37):
because when she noted, she was delivered.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Out of her distress by the Lord. There is no
one holy like the Lord. There is no one besides you.
There is no rock like my God.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Is what Hannah tells God in her prayer, after God
answers her. Do not keep talking so proudly, or let
your mouth speak such arrogance.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
For the Lord is a god who knows, and by
God deeds are weighed.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
The bowels of the warriors are broken, but those who
stumble are armed with strength. Those who were full hire
themselves out for food, But those who were hungry are
hungry no more.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
She This is where it gets real, she asked.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
She sought, I add zetio, and then she crew ooh knocked.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
She was barren.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
She she who was barren, has been come.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Born to seven children. But she who has many sons,
pines away. The Lord brings death and makes alive. God
brings down the grave and rises up. The Lord sends
poverty and wealth. God humbles and God exalts. God rises
(23:26):
the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from
the ash heap.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
God sets.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Them among the princes, and God has them inherit the
throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are
the lords. On them God has set the world. God
will guard the feet of the faithful. The wicked will
(24:03):
be silenced in the place of darkness. It is not
by strength that one prevails. Those who oppose the Lord
will be broken. The most High will thunder from heaven.
(24:23):
The Lord will judge the ends of the earth. God
will get strength and exalt the horn of the anointed.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
God.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
God is listening to you. Ask, you will receive, ito.
Speaker 10 (24:58):
Receive, Seek, still seek and you will be found.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
And find not with all your heart, and it will
be given to you. Be the peace.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Of our Lord, Jesus Christ be with you allways. Share
that peace. Share that peace with one another. As you ask,
as you seek, as you knock. God is listening these
(25:58):
shall I agree. Refocused Radio make sure you go to
ion refocusradio dot com to listen to today's episode. Once again,
like you always say, keep God first, stay focused in peace.
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