New Hope United Methodist Church Welcome to New Hope United Methodist Church November 15, 2015

Announcements Today: Join us for Lunch Children’s Choir Rehearsal 11:10 a.m. Youth 5:30 pm, Upstairs Monday: Genesis Study 7 pm, Rm. 2 Tuesday: Mere Christianity Study 7 pm, Hospitality Rm Wednesday: Adult/Youth Chimes Rehearsal 6 pm, Rm 3 Christmas Musical Rehersal 6:45 pm Adult/Youth Choir Rehearsal 7 pm, Sanctuary Next Sunday: Worship @ 8 a.m. Informal & 10 a.m. Traditional

No one is holy like the LORD— No, no one except you! Meditation I Samuel 2:1-10 Then Hannah prayed: My heart rejoices in the LORD. My strength rises up in the LORD… No one is holy like the LORD— No, no one except you! There is no rock like our God!...

Musical Prelude Bringing in the Light of Christ

Choral Introit Kum Ba Yah

Call to Worship One: My heart rejoices in the LORD. Isaiah 60:1 (The Message) One: My heart rejoices in the LORD. Many: My heart rejoices in the LORD. My strength rises up in the LORD… One: No one is holy like the LORD— Many: There is no rock like our God!.

O God, Our Help in Ages Past Opening Hymn O God, Our Help in Ages Past Hymnal # 117 Used By Permission. CCLI License # 11148194

O God, our help in ages past, our hope for years to come, our shelter from the stormy blast, and our eternal home. Under the shadow of thy throne, still may we dwell secure; sufficient is thine arm alone, and our defense is sure.

Before the hills in order stood, or earth received her frame, from everlasting, thou art God, to endless years the same. A thousand ages, in thy sight, are like an evening gone; short as the watch that ends the night, before the rising sun.

Time, like an ever rolling stream, bears all who breathe away; they fly forgotten, as a dream dies at the opening day. O God, our help in ages past, our hope for years to come; be thou our guide while life shall last, and our eternal home.

Opening Prayer Based upon Mark 13 O Lord, How often we are impressed by the size of things, the design of buildings, and the human made things around us. Speak to us as Jesus spoke to his disciples. Remind us of what is important, who is important. Call us back to the Holy One who gives life and hope. Save us from being deceived by war, reports of war, and people claiming to save us.

Help us to see as long as we dwell on earth there will be nations fighting and earthquakes and famines. May your Holy Spirit burn within us that we might ever claim you and allow the Holy Spirit to proclaim your love and salvation to all the earth. May your Holy Spirit move through us to love and reach out to friend and foe, neighbor and stranger. Amen.

Fairest Lord Jesus Children’s Chime Choir Special Music Fairest Lord Jesus Children’s Chime Choir

Planting and Harvesting Children’s Anthem Planting and Harvesting (Hal Hopson) Children’s Choir

Children’s Time Greg Sokolowski

You Shall Have a Song (Harriet Ziegenhals) Anthem You Shall Have a Song (Harriet Ziegenhals) Choir

II Kings 5:15(The Message) Offering Scriptures II Kings 5:15(The Message) [The healed man] He then went back to the Holy Man, he and his entourage, stood before him, and said, “I now know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no God anywhere on earth other than the God of Israel. In gratitude let me give you a gift.”

Living Our Faith

Offering Our Gifts to God

Alleluia Praise Response Hymnal #95 Used By Permission. CCLI License # 11148194

from whom all blessings flow; praise him, all creatures here below; Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; praise him, all creatures here below; praise him above, ye heavenly host; praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.

Sweet Hour of Prayer Hymnal # 496 Used By Permission. CCLI License # 11148194

Sweet hour of prayer! Sweet hour of prayer! that calls me from a world of care, and bids me at my Father's throne make all my wants and wishes known. In seasons of distress and grief, my soul has often found relief, and oft escaped the tempter's snare by thy return, sweet hour of prayer!

Sweet hour of prayer! Sweet hour of prayer! the joys I feel, the bliss I share of those whose anxious spirits burn with strong desires for thy return! With such I hasten to the place where God my Savior shows his face, and gladly take my station there, and wait for thee, sweet hour of prayer!

Sweet hour of prayer! Sweet hour of prayer! thy wings shall my petition bear to him whose truth and faithfulness engage the waiting soul to bless. And since he bids me seek his face, believe his word, and trust his grace, I'll cast on him my every care, and wait for thee, sweet hour of prayer!

Joys and Concerns Prayers of the People Silent Prayer

Hymnal #895 Used By Permission. CCLI License # 11148194

on earth as it is in Heaven. Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.

And forgive us our trespasses, Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.

but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.

Gloria Patria Hymnal #70 Used By Permission. CCLI License # 11148194

as it was in the beginning, Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Amen.

Scripture Reading I Samuel 1:4-17 4 On the day when Elkanah sacrificed, he would give portions to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons and daughters; 5 but to Hannah he gave a double portion,[a] because he loved her, though the Lord had closed her womb. 6 Her rival used to provoke her severely, to irritate her, because the Lord had closed her womb. 7 So it went on year by year; as often as she went up to the house of the Lord, she used to provoke her. Therefore Hannah wept and would not eat. 8 Her husband Elkanah said to

her, “Hannah, why do you weep. Why do you not eat her, “Hannah, why do you weep? Why do you not eat? Why is your heart sad? Am I not more to you than ten sons?” 9 After they had eaten and drunk at Shiloh, Hannah rose and presented herself before the Lord. Now Eli the priest was sitting on the seat beside the doorpost of the temple of the Lord. 10 She was deeply distressed and prayed to the Lord, and wept bitterly. 11 She made this vow: “O Lord of hosts, if only you will look on the misery of your servant, and remember me, and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a male child, then I will set him

before you as a nazirite until the day of his death before you as a nazirite until the day of his death. He shall drink neither wine nor intoxicants, and no razor shall touch his head.” 12 As she continued praying before the Lord, Eli observed her mouth. 13 Hannah was praying silently; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard; therefore Eli thought she was drunk. 14 So Eli said to her, “How long will you make a drunken spectacle of yourself? Put away your wine.” 15 But Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman deeply troubled; I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I have been pouring out my soul before the

Lord. 16 Do not regard your servant as a worthless woman, for I have been speaking out of my great anxiety and vexation all this time.” 17 Then Eli answered, “Go in peace; the God of Israel grant the petition you have made to him.”

Sermon Hannah’s Prayer

Great Is Thy Faithfulness Hymnal # 140 Used By Permission. CCLI License # 11148194

Great is thy faithfulness, O God my Father; there is no shadow of turning with thee; thou changest not, thy compassions, they fail not; as thou hast been thou forever will be. Great is thy faithfulness! Great is thy faithfulness! Morning by morning new mercies I see; all I have needed thy hand hath provided; great is thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me!

Great is thy faithfulness! Summer and winter and springtime and harvest, sun, moon and stars in their courses above join with all nature in manifold witness to thy great faithfulness, mercy and love. Great is thy faithfulness! Great is thy faithfulness! Morning by morning new mercies I see; all I have needed thy hand hath provided; great is thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me! Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth thy own dear presence to cheer and to guide; strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow, blessings all mine, with ten thousand beside!

Great is thy faithfulness! Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth thy own dear presence to cheer and to guide; strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow, blessings all mine, with ten thousand beside! Great is thy faithfulness! Great is thy faithfulness! Morning by morning new mercies I see; all I have needed thy hand hath provided; great is thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me!

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