FAITH CAPSULE: What is it that is representing your barrenness?

1 Samuel 1:1-28 

The Bible records how Elkanah, Hannah, Peninnah, and all of Peninnah’s sons and daughters went to Shiloh every year to worship and sacrifice to the Lord of hosts. 
Every year they went, nothing changed in the story of Hannah. 
Hannah was barren yet going and coming to worship at Shiloh. 
On every trip to Shiloh, 1 Samuel 1:4-7 records, “And whenever the time came for Elkanah to make an offering, he would give portions to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and daughters. But to Hannah, he would give a double portion, for he loved Hannah, although the LORD had closed her womb. And her rival also provoked her severely, to make her miserable, because the LORD had closed her womb. So it was, year by year, when she went up to the house of the LORD, that she provoked her; therefore she wept and did not eat.” 
Trips of Hannah to Shiloh must have been emotionally challenging, but there was no record of her forcing with none.
Hannah was the neediest and probably the quietest. 
Hannah was barren, but she trusted God for intervention and did not stop going to serve God.
Hannah maintained her focus on serving God when God looked upon her and visited her.
In your life challenges, what is it that is representing barrenness?
Are you experiencing a delay in the calling of God over your life?
Waiting on God demands persistence, but God will act, and you will experience the visitation of God.
Be persistent, call on God without a doubt. 
Persistent is a demonstration of faith to please God. Hebrews 11:6 buttresses, “But without faith, it is impossible to please him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.” 
The situation with Hannah was: God closed her womb, and God opened her womb.
The persistence of Hannah provoked the hand of God to open her closed womb. God responded to Hannah with blessings beyond her expectation. Know today that God is God. Let no man seal up the close door that is already upon you. 
In every area of life, choose persistence with the understanding that it is not beyond God to open or close the door over your life.
God alone is God!
Hannah persistent, and God at His appointed time, remembered her. 1 Samuel 1:20 records: So it came to pass in the process of time that Hannah conceived and bore a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked for him from the Lord.
If you have received the calling of God over your life, remain focus on God.
If your expectation from God is experiencing delay, know that delay will fail to deny the manifestation of God over your life.
Hannah testified that she has asked from God.
Just like Hannah, are you waiting for the direction of God as you answered His calling? Give the name for your expectation as: I have asked from God.
God will act on your behalf.

Prayer for today: Ask that God enable you to remain focus on Him for His appointed time.