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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

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    Praise God, beloved, receive the blessing of saying to God, “Here I am.”   Samuel bonded with God through ministering to

Today’s Word Of Encouragement From Wayne: “Now Samuel was ministering before the Lord, as a boy” 1 Samuel 2:18   This verse reminds me of what our Savior, Jesus Christ, declared when he said “Truly I say to you, unless you are converted and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 18:3).    Ministering to the Lord is our entering the kingdom of heaven, in Spirit and in truth and in practice, which is within us, because of our indwelling resurre

Today’s Word Of Encouragement From Wayne: “Now Samuel was ministering before the Lord, as a boy.” 1 Samuel 2:18   What a beautiful heart Samuel had, in that he wanted to minister to the Lord so much.    His mother Hannah, had dedicated him in prayer to God and had left him, “and he worshiped the Lord there” (1:28).    His father, Elkanah, went home to Ramah, “but the boy ministered to the Lord” (2:11).    Oh may we learn now, what Samuel seemed to know even as a boy, which is

Today’s Word Of Encouragement From Wayne: “Then Elkanah went to his home at Ramah. But the boy ministered to the Lord before Eli the priest.” 1 Samuel 2:11    Samuel’s father went back home to Ramah, “but the boy ministered to the Lord.”    This is the first time in Scripture that the phrase “ministered to the Lord” appears.    Ministering to the Lord is so simple that even a child can do it.    However, ministering to the Lord is so special that only a child of God can do it

Today’s Word Of Encouragement From Wayne: “For this boy I prayed, and the Lord has given me my petition which I asked of Him. So I have also dedicated him to the Lord; as long as he lives he is dedicated to the Lord.’ And he worshiped the Lord there” 1 Samuel 1:28   Hannah, who was greatly loved by her husband, yet childless, sought the Lord and prayed fervently for His mercy upon her, that she would be blessed to bear a child which, she promised God, “I will give him to the

Today’s Word Of Encouragement From Wayne: “You shall not do at all what we are doing here today, every man doing whatever is right in his own eyes; for you have not as yet come to the resting place and the inheritance which the Lord you God is giving you.” Deuteronomy 12:8-9   Bless God, here is a piece of good news for us!   God wanted, and still wants, all of His people to “come to the resting place and the inheritance which the Lord your God is giving you.”    In the Old T