Re: Verse reading–1 Samuel 1:1-20 (day six)
“Then the woman went to her quarters, ate and drank with her husband, and her countenance was sad no longer.” (v 18) It is a strange power that prayer has. “A peace that passes understanding” is the way the Bible describes it. Nothing has changed for Hannah. Not materially. She is still barren. Still trapped in a dysfunctional family. But her countenance reveals a deep inner transformation. Her face is no longer sad because her heart is no longer defeated. People who pray report this positive result. The problems remain but somehow we are different! “Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day. . .while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things that are not seen; for the things that are seen are temporal, but the things that are unseen are eternal.” (2 Corinthians 4:16, 18)
