May 2nd - Hearing God Call

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Learning Missional Practices
Spiritual Gifts
Knowing the Story
Walking and Talking with Jesus

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Ch 1. Elkanah, Hannah, Eli, Samuel
Ch 2. Samuel / Eli's Sons

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Succession Planning
The boy Samuel ministered before the Lord under Eli.

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Dead Zone
In those days the word of the Lord was rare; there were not many visions.

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Transition Time
2 One night Eli, whose eyes were becoming so weak that he could barely see.... 3 The lamp of God had not yet gone out,

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Three strikes, but not out
8 A third time the Lord called, “Samuel!” And Samuel got up and went to Eli and said, “Here I am; you called me.”

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God opens the door
7 Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord: The word of the Lord had not yet been revealed to him.

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God uses door openers
Then Eli realized that the Lord was calling the boy. 9 So Eli told Samuel, “Go and lie down, and if he calls you, say, ‘Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening.’”

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Given a hard word.
11 And the Lord said to Samuel: “See, I am about to do something in Israel that will make the ears of everyone who hears about it tingle..."

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"My God" finds an obedient son
He was afraid to tell Eli the vision, 16 but Eli called him and said, “Samuel, my son.”
Samuel answered, “Here I am.”

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The Word gives words.
19 The Lord was with Samuel as he grew up, and he let none of Samuel’s words fall to the ground.... 21 The Lord ... revealed himself to Samuel through his word.

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Submit: "Here I am"
Listen: "Speak Lord"
Share:  "What was it?"
Submit:  "He is the Lord"