Whatever you need for you tell God how he will benefit from it as you give it to others.

Dr Tony Evans says God wants to advance the kingdom even while meeting our needs.

What he's up to is a lot bigger than what you're praying for, but

you just don't know it yet. This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, author,

speaker, senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas, and president of the Urban

Alternative.

When the world around us grows increasingly dim, we need God's light in order to scatter the darkness.

For this Mother's Day, Dr. Evans shows us how to find the Lord's Light in the lesson he shares about a mother and from a mother, but one that has benefit for us all.

Let's join him as he begins.

Hannah is introduced to us in 1st Samuel 1, first by identifying her husband, whose name in verse one is Al-Qaeda.

Al-Qaeda, we're told in verse 2, a First Samuel one has two wives. One was named

Hannah and the other is Penanai.

Hannah being mentioned first was his first wife,

but he married a second wife,

and we're told why.

Because we're told at the end of verse two,

Penn and I had children, but I had no children.

In the Old Testament world, having children was a testimony to the blessing of God. Over and over again, God promised his people that if they would be committed to him there would be

no barren women among you. So when Al-Kina marries Hannah and she doesn't get pregnant, the question on

the floor is, is she cursed? Is something wrong here because God promised there would be no barren woman

among you and she can't get pregnant? So he gets a second wife because the dream of a Jewish father like the dream of most

fathers today is to get not only that children but to get that son.

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