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This Week’s Theme: Praise God for His Blessings

Memory Verse: Matthew 6:33 “33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.”

This Week’s Word is Blessings: Spiritual and material benefits given by God to be enjoyed.

Blessing the name of God is also the appropriate response of believers to all that God has done for them.

1 Samuel chapter 1

CHAPTER ONE

Contents: The vow of Hannah and the birth of Samuel.

Characters: God, Eli, Elkhanah, Hannah, Samuel, Peninnah.

Conclusion: Prayer is heart’s ease to a gracious soul.

If we seek on the basis of God’s glory (v.

11) we shall be confident that we do not seek in vain.

Prayer smoothes the countenance (v.

18).

Key Word: Bitterness, v. 10.

Strong Verses: 17, 27, 28.

Striking Facts: True prayer may only be offered on the grounds of the sacrifice (v.

3).

By Christ’s offering, not only is atonement made for sin, but the audience and acceptance of our prayers is obtained for us.

In all our supplications, we must have an eye to the Great Sacrifice.

1 Samuel chapter 2

CHAPTER TWO

Contents: Hannah’s prophetic prayer.

Evil sons of Eli.

Samuel in the tabernacle.

The warning to Eli.

Characters: God, Hannah, Eli, Samuel, Hophni, Phinehas, Elkanah, a prophet.

Conclusion: Nothing is more provoking to God than the profanation of sacred things and men serving their lusts with the offerings of the Lord.

Those who allow and countenance their children in an evil way by not using their authority to restrain and punish them, involve themselves in their guilt and may be expected to be cast off from God’s service.

Key Word: Evil sons, v. 23.

Strong Verses: 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 30.

Striking Facts: v. 35.

This had its full accomplishment in the priesthood of Christ, that faithful High Priest raised up of God when the Levitical priesthood was cast aside, who in all things did His Father’s mind, and for whom God builds a sure house, built on a rock so that the gates of hell cannot prevail against it.

1 Samuel chapter 3

CHAPTER THREE

Contents: Samuel becomes Jehovah’s prophet-priest.

Characters: God, Samuel, Eli.

Conclusion: A child may have an ear for God’s call; a mind for God’s service and a message for God’s bidding, for God will not be without a mouthpiece even though the ordained priesthood be deaf to His voice.

Key Word: Called, v. 4.

Strong Verses: 10, 18, 19.

Striking Facts: God’s ministers must nourish a holy sensitiveness to sacred things, or callousness will lead them to some sin for which God will be compelled to lay them aside.

(v.

13).

1 Samuel chapter 4

CHAPTER FOUR

Contents: Ark taken by Philistines.

Characters: God, Eli, Hophni, Phinehas, his wife, Ichabod.

Conclusion: One may go forth with a Bible under the arm and a shout upon the lips and yet not have God Himself.

Many who have estranged themselves from the vitals of religion putting their confidence in the rituals of religion, find themselves with only a form of godliness without the power thereof.

Key Word: Ark taken, vv.

11, 17.

Strong Verses: 22.

Striking Facts: Farewell, all in this world, if the ark, the token of Christ’s presence with us, be lost.

1 Samuel chapter 5

CHAPTER FIVE

Contents: Ark of God a curse to Philistines.

Characters: God.

Conclusion: Sacred signs are not things that God is tied to or that man can trust to for blessing.

His presence may be a savour of life unto life or of death unto death.

Key Word: Hand of the Lord, vv.

6, 9, 11.

Strong Verses: 6.

Striking Facts: Those who contend with God, His ark and the followers of His Beloved Son will invariably be ruined at last.

1 Samuel chapter 6

CHAPTER SIX

Contents: Ark brought to Joshua.

Characters: God.

Conclusion: The Word of God in the hands of the world brings them condemnation (v. 2) causing them to seek to get rid of it.

By refusing to part with their sins, sinners but lengthen out their own miseries (v.

4).

Key Word: Ark, v. 1.

Strong Verses: 13, 20.

Striking Facts: v. 13.

The return of the ark (token of God’s presence) and the revival of holy ordinances after days of restraint and trouble must be a matter of great joy to Christians.

We must reverently use the tokens of God’s grace through Christ or we will be made to sink under the tokens of His displeasure (v.

19).

1 Samuel chapter 7

CHAPTER SEVEN

Contents: Ark brought to house of Abinadab.

Revival of Mizpah.

Victory at Eben-ezer.

Characters: God, Samuel, Eleazar, Abinadab.

Conclusion: When we are truly sensible that by sin we have provoked God to withdraw from us and that we are undone if we continue in that state, if we make a solemn business of returning to God we may be assured we are on the way to a renewed prosperity and deliverance.

Key Word: Return, v. 3.

Strong Verses: 3, 8, 12.

Striking Facts: v. 12.

The Christian should, as he passes along, set up his Ebenezers by which he will be reminded that “hitherto the Lord hath helped him” and by which he will give all the glory of his victories to God and His Son Jesus Christ.

1 Samuel chapter 8

CHAPTER EIGHT

Contents: Israel demands a king; theocracy rejected.

Characters: God, Samuel, his sons, Joel, Abiajah.

Conclusion: When God’s people will not accept His best for them, they will get the best they can be persuaded to take and, with the answer to their selfish prayers, will receive also an added judgment.

Key Word: King, vv. 5, 19.

Strong Verses: 7, 9, 18.

Striking Facts: v. 20.

For a professed Christian to want to live like the world means not only that he is displeasing Christ, but will at last find himself a dupe.

It was God’s will that Israel should have a king but in His own time.

He must come of the tribe of Judah (Gen.

49:10).

Because of Judah’s sin (Gen.

38, Deut.

23:2) his line was prohibited from office for ten generations.

David is found to be the first one to satisfy these conditions.

(Matt.

1).

1 Samuel chapter 9