HANNAH'S PROPHECY
HANNAH’S PROPHECY
Sunday, May 4, 2025, the Year of Our Lord
Pastor Carolyn Sissom
The month of May has always been for me a time of celebration for families: Mother’s Day, Graduations, School honors, Birthdays, and picnics. This May 2025 is no different. I am going on a vacation trip with my daughters and granddaughter.
My grandson, Mason Bonaventure is graduating from Southeastern University, Hammond, Louisiana.
Our own, Leila Castillo, is graduating from the University of Houston.
Bonnie Lugo has three grandchildren graduating this year:
- Desirey DeLara – Sam Houston State University
- Dante Lugo – Argyle High School
- Lilliana DeLara – Robert Turner High School
We have multiple birthdays of our church members in May.
A baby being born on Monday to Chris and Sunshine Bunke.
I will be out of town nine days and miss two Sundays. You will be blessed with Rev. Robert Steele preaching on the 11th. Rev. Betty Amante will be preaching on the 18th. Rev. Sandra Farley will be preaching on Sunday evening, May 11th. Deaconess Lucy Beaton will teach the Bible Study on Tuesday, 13th. We have a guest speaker, Lisa Enebeli, Tuesday, May 6th. I will plan on preaching on Sunday evening the 18th. On May 25th, we will have a barbecue lunch at the church.
HANNAH’S PROPHECY
It is my custom on Mother’s Day, to preach on one of the women of the Bible. This year, I will honor Hannah, the mother of Samuel. She personifies the ideal in motherhood. Her faith in God and perseverance birthed a New Order and a New Day for Israel with a new priesthood and a monarchy.
Samuel was birthed in answer to His mother’s intense and passionate prayers. He was a warrior of prayer and a prophet of prayer – 1 Sam 3:19: Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him, and did not let any of his words fall to the ground. He was the first of the oral prophets and the founder of a regular order of prophets with schools. The School of the Prophets cleansed the land of witchcraft. These oral prophets functioned through a period of 300 years before the literary prophets (who wrote the closing 17 books of the O.T).
Samuel was a priest and the last of the Judges who ruled Israel until the people of Israel cried to God to give them a King. He was a man of Divine authority. As a prophet, he anointed both Saul and David to the monarchy. The Lord used Samuel to inaugurate the new institution of royalty in Israel. Two books of the Holy Bible bear his name.
Hannah’s environment was not conducive to prayer, for the people of Israel had lapsed from the high standards of morality and spirituality set up by Moses. She had to break through the corruption of the priesthood of Eli and pioneer a new path. That path was found through her persistent intercession and absolute faith.
Her home environment was not conducive to great dreams either. Her husband, Elkanah, was a good, but easy going, undistinguished priest; and in those polygamous times he and his other wife, Peninnah, had children.
1 Sa. 1:3-5: Elkanah went up from his city yearly to worship and sacrifice to the LORD of hosts in Shiloh… when 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 gave a worthy portion, for he loved Hannah…
New King James reads a double portion.
Peninnah was jealous because Hannah was the favorite wife. She made light of Hannah… This went on year by year, when she went up to the house of the LORD, that Peninnah provoked her; therefore, she wept and did not eat.
1 Sam 8-17: Elkanah attempted to comfort her… Eli the priest was sitting on the seat by the doorpost of the tabernacle of the LORD. He questioned Hannah about her anguish of soul. Then she made a vow: “O LORD of hosts, if You will indeed look on the affliction of Your Maidservant and remember me, and not forget Your maidservant, but will give Your maidservant a male child, then I will give him to the LORD all the days of his life, and no razor shall come upon his head… she continued praying before the LORD… only her lips moved… Eli thought she was drunk… She assured him she was not.
Eli answered and said, “Go in peace, and the God of Israel grant your petition which you have asked of Him.
I noted that even though the existing priesthood of Eli was corrupt and a failed priesthood, the LORD used him to decree the miracle to Hannah. His decree is in answer to her persevering prayer, not Eli’s anointing.
Eli is a type of the religious systems, the old order. He speaks of man-rule and carnal leadership. The changing of the priesthood here in 1 Samuel is a picture of the transition from the old order to the new order. The break-through came through the intercession of Hannah who is a type of the remnant church who will not be denied the presence, power and might of God. She not only brought forth a son, but Samuel’s calling was to inaugurate a new institution of royalty, a king-priest institution as a type and shadow of the King-Priest order of Jesus Christ.
Her intense prayers of crying out to God birthed the next move of God for the nation. The monarchy of David and Solomon is known as the “Golden Age” of Israel’s history.
That the throne of the papacy is vacant and a new President of the United States has been seated in 2025 and we are only five months in the New Year tells me the old order internationally is going down by the Hand of God and a New Order, God’s Order is being established. We the church must apprehend this appointed time, and not miss God.
According to Hannah’s vow, after she weaned Samuel, she kept her promise. She took him to Shiloh and left him there with Eli. Her faith was such that she had an assurance that Samuel would fulfill His destiny.
1 Sa. 2:26: And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favor both with the LORD, and also with men.
The key to Samuel’s ministry was prayer. His very name (nature) is filled with communion and devotion. His very existence was an answer to his mother’s travailing prayer.
The judgment of Eli’s house is that his seed would be cut off. Eli honored his sons above Jehovah and therefore, was lightly esteemed. Eli’s line (Aaronic priesthood) would be cut off. The Priesthood would not be changed to the Zadok priesthood.
3:19-21: And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and did let none of his words fall to the ground. All Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of the LORD. The LORD appeared again in Shiloh for the LORD revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the LORD.
I feel to decree Hannah’s Prophecy as a mother over our nation, our government, our churches, and our families. It is prophetic of the LORD’s action in response to her prayer and fasting. It is also a NOW PROPHECY. May the power of Hannah’s prayers that birthed a New Order place a prophetic seal over the New Order of this new day.
1 Sa. 2: 1-10:
My heart rejoices in the LORD.
My horn is exalted in the LORD.
I smile at my enemies,
Because I rejoice in Your salvation.
No one is holy like the LORD,
For there is none besides You,
Nor is there any rock like our God.
Talk no more so very proudly.
Let no arrogance come from your mouth,
For the LORD is the God of knowledge.
And by Him actions are weighed.
The bows of the mighty men are broken,
And those who stumbled are girded with strength.
Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread,
And the hungry have ceased to hunger.
Even the barren has borne seven,
And she who has many children has become feeble.
The LORD kills and makes alive.
He brings down to the grave and brings up.
The LORD makes poor and makes rich.
He brings low and lifts up.
He raises the poor from the dust.
And lifts the beggar from the ash heap,
To set them among princes
And make them inherit the throne of glory.
For the pillars of the earth are the LORD’s,
And he has set the world upon them.
He will guard the feet of His saints,
But the wicked shall be silent in darkness.
For by strength no man shall prevail.
The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken in pieces.
From heaven he will thunder against them.
The LORD will judge the ends of the earth.
He will give strength to His king,
And exalt the horn of His anointed.
Carolyn Sissom, Pastor
Eastgate Ministries Church. 10115 West Hidden Lakes Lane, Richmond, TX