The Heart of Hannah

Hi Everyone,

I just want to say thank you so much to those who have been praying form me! I know that God has been moving through you. Thank you for joining in on what he is doing, he just loves when we pray for each other! Please be praying especially for tonight (thursday, if you read this before than) because the DTS and the school of worship will be having a 12-hour (7 pm to 7 am) prayer and worship night. I am so excited for this! We will have special times of intercession specific topics and also just times of worship and listening to what God leads up to intercede for. Pray that this will be a time God can transform my heart, speak to me personally and also speak to up as a group.

I thought i would share another journal entry.

February 24

After the day of giving and our call to holiness there have been a new sort of unity within the DTS. A more profound transformation had been triggered in me. The morning of the 22^nd, in worship time, I had such a strong desire to feel his love and he responded to that by giving me a deeper understanding of and sensitivity to his love. During a time of prayer, right after I had prayed a lady named Grace (she is from Uganda!) came over and began to pray for me. She said the things that were on my heart; things of God and how I only longed for him. After the worship time she took me aside and told me that she felt in her heart that I am like Hannah of the Bible. Hannah’s husband had given her every material thing she could ever need, but it didn’t matter to her because her heart’s desire was for a son. She constantly prayed, crying out to God for her hearts desire. He gave her the desire of her heart, which she gave back to him as she promised. Her son blessed the nation of Israel. Grace told me that God showed her that even though I have every “thing” I could ever need in this life, it is worthless to me because my heart only has one desire. I long with all me being just to be with him and know him more. I am willing to forsake everything else just to be in his arms and go deeper into his love. Like Hannah, my heart cries out in pain for this, being grieved at the thought of not having my heart’s desire. In the same way, God has heard my cry and is giving me my desire! Grace spoke of the things that are on my heart. His love is all I want. The only things I really need are found in his love.

The next day, God showed me more of his beauty through his creation. Some friends and I went to the rainforest and… Wow… it was so beautiful. I have never seen any other thing in nature like it. God is so creative! In the middle of our hike, it started to rain. We got so excited about this that we sang out loud to God, “Rain more! Rain harder!” More and more it began to pour, illuminating the beauty of the forest. It was cool because some parts of the forest were so thick that I could just feel a bit of the raindrops, but it would just be dumping down in the more open spaces. We were singing, dancing, and laughing like no other! That was a day to remember. Surely, it was a week to remember.