PASSIONATE PRAYERS and FEARLESS FAITH INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY OF PRAYER MARCH 4, 2017 WRITTEN BY Gina Wahlen

What About You? Have you poured out your heart to the Lord? Do you plead for His direct intervention? Is your prayer so personal that you must whisper it? Is your prayer so deep that only God Himself is meant to hear?

Ellen G. White, Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 569, 570 Unhappy Home Peninnah Peninnah was jealous and narrow- minded, and she bore herself with pride and insolence. She taunted Hannah with her childless state as evidence of the Lord’s displeasure . Hannah To Hannah, hope seemed crushed and life a weary burden; yet she met the trial with uncomplaining meekness. Ellen G. White, Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 569, 570

ONLY GOD COULD SOLVE No, my lord, I am a woman of sorrowful spirit. I have drunk neither wine or intoxicating drink, but have poured out my soul before the Lord. Do not consider your maidservant a wicked woman, for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief I have spoken until now. 1 Samuel 1:15, 16, NKJV

A BLESSING RETURNS O my lord! As your soul lives . . . I am the woman who stood by you here, praying to the Lord. For this child I prayed, and the Lord has granted me my petition which I asked of Him. Therefore I also have lent him to the Lord; as long as he lives he shall be lent to the Lord. 1 Samuel 1:26-28

A BLESSING RETURNS My heart rejoices in the Lord! The Lord has made me strong. Now I have an answer for my enemies; I rejoice because you rescued me. No one is holy like the Lord! There is no one besides you; there is no Rock like our God. 1 Samuel 2:1, 2, NLT

TWO WOMEN – TWO STORIES I am poor and needy; THEY RECOGNIZED THEIR HELPLESSNESS AND REACHED OUT IN FAITH. I am poor and needy; Yet the Lord thinks upon me. You are my help and my deliverer; Do not delay, O my God. Psalm 40:17, NKJV

The Rock of my salvation.” TWO WOMEN – TWO STORIES THEY BELIEVED THAT GOD WAS REAL, AND ALTHOUGH OMNIPOTENT, HE WAS ALSO PERSONALLY INTERESTED IN THEM. “The Lord lives! Blessed be my Rock! Let God be exalted, The Rock of my salvation.” Psalm 44:47

TWO WOMEN – TWO STORIES “Behold you desire truth in the inward parts, THEY WERE COMPLETELY HONEST WITH GOD, HIDING NOTHING. “Behold you desire truth in the inward parts, And in the hidden part You will make me to know wisdom.” Psalm 51:6

TWO WOMEN – TWO STORIES THEY WERE FULLY SURRENDERED TO GOD. “O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will.” Matthew 26:39, NKJV

TWO WOMEN – TWO STORIES THEY WERE FULLY SURRENDERED TO GOD. “Can a woman forget her nursing child And not have compassion on the son of her womb? Surely they may forget, Yet I will not forget you. See, I have inscribed you in the palms of My hands.” Isaiah 49:15, 16

THE PRIVILEGE OF PRAYER Ellen G. White, Steps to Christ, p. 96 “If we take counsel with our doubts and fears, or try to solve everything that we cannot see clearly, before we have faith, perplexities will only increase and deepen.”

THE PRIVILEGE OF PRAYER ”But if we come to God, feeling helpless and dependent, as we really are, and in humble, trusting faith make known our wants to Him whose knowledge is infinite, who sees everything in creation, and who governs everything by His will and word, He can and will attend to our cry, and will let light shine into our hearts.”

THE PRIVILEGE OF PRAYER “Through sincere prayer we are brought into connection with the mind of the Infinite. We may have no remarkable evidence at the time that the face of our Redeemer is bending over us in compassion and love, but this is even so. We may not feel His visible touch, but His hand is upon us in love and pitying tenderness.”

JESUS IS OUR ROCK AND HE IS TRUSTWORTHY “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.” Jeremiah 29:11, NKJV