She worshipped

Then they rose early in the morning and worshiped before the LORD, and returned and came to their house at Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and the LORD remembered her. 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." – 1 Samuel 1.19-20

Hannah prayed and Eli (after he accused her of being drunk – poor girl) prayed that God would hear her. She got up and dried her tears.

The next morning, before they went back home and before they did anything else she and Elkanah did something that is a challenge to us all.

They rose up in the morning early – and they worshipped.

Did you notice that they worshipped before God answered their prayer? Their faith was so strong that they didn’t have to see anything before they worshipped God.

Our for the kind of faith and trust that allows me to trust God and worship Him before I see Him act.

But notice one key point of this story. They worshipped, they went home, and ‘Elkanah knew his wife.’

They worshipped God. They acted on their faith – and God ‘remembered them.’

Obviously God can’t forget – God called their pray and their faith to mind. Hannah conceived and had a son.

Then she kept doing right – she honoured the Lord in naming her son Samuel, which means ‘asked of the Lord.’

This is a pretty special woman. She had the kind of faith that we ought to seek in our lives.