Crystallization-Study of 1 and 2 Samuel
Message Two
The Hannah Ministry
OPENING WORD OF THE PROPHESYING MEETING
Reading the verses in each day.
Reading the main points in the outlines.
Pray-reading the verses:
1 Sam. 1:10-11 And [Hannah] was bitter in soul and prayed to Jehovah and wept much, and she made a vow and said, O Jehovah of hosts, if You will indeed look upon the affliction of Your female servant and remember me and not forget Your female servant, but give to Your female servant a male child, then I will give him to Jehovah for all the days of his life, and no razor will come upon his head.
Rev. 12:5 And she brought forth a son, a man-child, who is to shepherd all the nations with an iron rod; and her child was caught up to God and to His throne.
Word of Appetizer
What is “the Hannah ministry”?
Hannah’s ministry was just to bring in the King, not to have many children; Hannah’s prayer was the means for the birth of Samuel; Hannah’s prayer indicates that God’s move with His answer to her prayer was to produce a Nazarite, an overcomer, who was absolute for the fulfilling of God’s desire; God wants to get a people who are able to pray and bring in the kingdom with Christ as the King and His overcomers as the co-kings.
Spiritual Burden
There is no other way to reach the high peak of God’s eternal economy, the reality of the Body of Christ, except by praying; our becoming the overcomers as the reality of the Body of Christ to be the bride of Christ will close this age, the age of the church, and will bring Christ as the King of glory back to take, possess, and rule over this earth with His overcomers in the kingdom age.
Concluding Word of the Prophesying Meeting
The Revelation of the Truth
We have to realize what the Lord’s recovery is; the Lord’s recovery is to build up Zion, which typifies the overcomers as the reality of the Body of Christ to consummate the holy city, the New Jerusalem.
The first book of Samuel shows us in typology the bringing in of Christ as the King (typified by David) with His kingdom.
The first book of Samuel stands for a ministry that brings in the King with His kingdom; we may call this “the Hannah ministry”.
Hannah’s experience shows that we need to pour out our soul before the Lord in the midst of our bitterness; in Exodus 15 the children of Israel came to the bitter waters of Marah; when the people murmured against Moses, he “cried out to Jehovah, and Jehovah showed him a tree; and he cast it into the waters, and the waters became sweet”.
The Experience of Life
When we cry out to the Lord in prayer, He shows us a vision of the crucified and resurrected Christ as the tree of life; through our prayer by pouring out our soul before the Lord, we are casting this tree into the bitter waters of our being; then these bitter waters are changed into the sweet waters of His presence.
Whenever we are in bitter circumstances and are bitter in our being, we need to pour out our soul with our heart to the Lord by being real and honest with Him; such prayer produces the overcomers, who will bring in the King with the kingdom.
Practice and Application
What the Lord wants and what the Lord will build up is Zion, the overcomers; we surely need to be desperate to pray at any cost and to pay the cost just as the apostle Paul did. Our response to the Lord’s calling of the overcomers in this age is for us to be vitalized; to be vital is to be living and active in oneness with our living and acting God.
We need to pour out our soul before the Lord in the midst of our bitterness. Our prayers should result in the bringing forth of overcomers; we need to pray in oneness with the ascended Christ in His heavenly ministry in the stage of intensification for the producing of the overcomers.
PROPHESYING TOPICS—TWELVE TOPICS PER WEEK
Day 1
T1 In the Old Testament there was the city of Jerusalem with Zion as the center (Psa. 48:2; Rev. 14:1)
(Please illustrate that what Jerusalem and Zion typify in the Bible.)
T2 Zion is the stronghold of Jerusalem (1 Kings 8:1; Psa. 51:18; Isa. 41:27)
(Please illustrate that the characteristics, the life, the blessing, and the establishment of Jerusalem come from Zion according to the scriptures.)
Day 2
T1 The overcomers as Zion are the reality of the Body of Christ (Rev. 21:2-3)
(Please illustrate that today in the church age, the God-men who were perfected and matured are Zion, the overcomers,)
T2 There is no other way to reach the reality of the Body of Christ except by praying (Rev. 21:2-3; Col. 4:2)
(Please illustrate that the Lord’s recovery is to build up Zion.)
Day 3
T1 God was the origin of Samuel (1 Sam. 1:6, 11)
(Please illustrate that how God used His sovereign authority to force Hannah to pray desperately.)
T2 Hannah’s prayer was an echo of the heart’s desire of God (1 Sam. 1:10)
(Please illustrate that Hannah’s prayer was a base on which God could move.)
Day 4
T1 There are many points in the history of Israel that are similar to the history of the church (Hab. 3:2)
(Please illustrate that what principle we see from the history of Israel.)
T2 The history of the judges is not God’s thought. God’s thought is toward the kingdom (Rev. 11:15)
(Please illustrate that the importance of the first book of Samuel is that God wants to bring in a kingdom and a King not to have more judges.)
Day 5
T1 “The Hannah ministry” is the ministry that bring in the kingdom with the kingship (1 Sam. 1:2; Rev. 12:5)
(Please illustrate that how Hannah’s ministry is different from Peninnah’s ministry.)
T2 God wants to get a people who are able to pray and bring in the kingdom (1 Sam. 1:11; Rev. 12:5)
(Please illustrate that our prayers should result in the bringing forth of overcomers.)
Day 6
T1 The tree that the Lord showed Moses in Exodus 15 signifies the tree of life (Exo. 15:25; 1 Pet. 2:24; John 11:25)
(Please illustrate that the tree that Moses cast into the bitter waters was the crucified and resurrected Christ as the tree of life according to the scriptures.)
T2 Enjoying the healing tree cast into the bitter situation (Exo. 15:25-26)
(Please illustrate that how to experience the Lord’s healing whenever we are in bitter circumstances and are bitter in our being with experiences.)
