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Today’s Word Of Encouragement From Wayne: “God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” 1 Samuel 16:7 These are the words the Lord spoke to Samuel after he had arrived at the house of Jesse, where he had gone, following God’s word to him, in order to discover and anoint the next king of Israel. When Samuel first entered and saw Jesse’s son, Eliab, He thought, “surely the Lord’s anointed is before him” (1 Samuel 16: 7

Today’s Word Of Encouragement From Wayne: “Your kingdom shall not endure. The Lord has sought out for Himself a man after His own heart, and the Lord has appointed him as ruler over His people.” 1 Samuel 13:14 These were the words of the Lord through Samuel, now a grown man, to king Saul, who had “not kept the commandment of the Lord your God” (1 Samuel 13:13). David was the one whom God had found, “a man after His own heart,” who would soon be anointed king by Samuel (1

Today’s Word Of Encouragement From Wayne: “But I will raise up for Myself a faithful priest who will do according to what is in My heart and in My soul; and he will walk before My anointed always.” 1 Samuel 2:35 A prophet of God had spoken these words to Eli, shortly before the Lord called to Samuel in the temple at night. The first meaning of this prophecy, I believe, is about Samuel, who was faithful to God and who did, during his life, walk before God’s anointed king

Today’s Word Of Encouragement From Wayne: “Then the Lord came and stood and called as at other times, ‘Samuel! Samuel!’ And Samuel said, ‘Speak, for your servant is listening.’ The Lord said to Samuel, ‘Behold, I am about to do a thing in Israel at which both ears of everyone who hears it will tingle.’” 1 Samuel 3:10-11 God was telling little Samuel first, of a new thing that He was about to do, before He showed anyone else in all of Israel. Why? To me the big obvious

Today’s Word Of Encouragement From Wayne: “Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, nor had the word of the Lord yet been revealed to him. So the Lord called Samuel again for the third time.” 1 Samuel 3:7-8 Why was God calling Samuel? We know God wanted to speak to Samuel, but why to Samuel? The one singular distinguishing element we see highlighted and shining about Samuel in these Scriptures is that He ministered to the Lord (1 Samuel 1:28, 2:11, 2:18, 3:1). In the

Today’s Word Of Encouragement From Wayne: “Then the Lord came and stood and called as at other times, ‘Samuel! Samuel!’ And Samuel said, ‘Speak, for your servant is listening.’” 1 Samuel 3:10 This is the fourth time God called to Samuel, the boy, as he was lying down in the temple at nigh, sleeping near the ark of the Lord. Each time God had called, little Samuel rose up and went to Eli, the elderly priest who, after the third time, discerned that God must be calling t

Today’s Word Of Encouragement From Wayne: “The Lord called yet again, ‘Samuel!’” 1 Samuel 3:6 The first time God had called to him, Samuel did not know it was the Lord calling. Samuel got up and went to Eli, assuming it was he who had called him, as Samuel was sleeping in the temple next to the ark. But it was not Eli who had called him. Scripture goes on to tell us that, after Samuel reentered the temple and laid back down, “the Lord called yet again, ‘Samuel!’” Th

Today’s Word Of Encouragement From Wayne: “Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, nor had the word of the Lord yet been revealed to him. So the Lord called Samuel again for the third time” 1 Samuel 3:7-8 “Samuel did not yet know the Lord,” however his mother, Hannah, had dedicated Samuel to God and had brought him up, in his three years, to be devoted to God. Look at how much God wanted to reveal Himself and speak to this small child who was “ministering to the Lord” (1 S

Today’s Word Of Encouragement From Wayne: “Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the Lord. And word from the Lord was rare in those days, visions were infrequent. The lamp of the Lord had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the temple of the Lord where the ark of God was, that the Lord called Samuel; and he said, ‘here I am’” 1 Samuel 3:1,3-4 Hallelujah, my brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ! This Scripture certainly shows us that “ministering to the Lord” is

Today’s Word Of Encouragement From Wayne: “Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the Lord. And word from the Lord was rare in those days, visions were infrequent. The lamp of the Lord had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the temple of the Lord where the ark of God was, that the Lord called Samuel; and he said, ‘here I am.’” 1 Samuel 3:1,3-4 “Word from the Lord was rare in those days,” yet Samuel, at three years old, heard from God. Here are the simple pri