Did you miss your chance to do the take home lesson for Patience last month? Read over this lesson to review the story and then answer the questions at the end.

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Remember, if you complete all 6 take home lessons from this year during Released Time, you will earn a $60 scholarship towards a week of summer camp at Camp Victory! We will also give out prizes on the Released Time trailer for those who complete the lessons each month. Make sure to fill out the answer form at the end of the lesson with your name and school information so we can get it recorded.

 

Do you remember what  happened in the story? You can read it for yourself in 1 Samuel 1-2. A woman named Hannah was sad because she and her husband had not been able to have any children. Hannah went to the tabernacle to pray and ask God to give her a son. She promised God that if He did, she would give her son back to God to serve Him all his life. 

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She and her husband continued to be patient and wait on God's timing. Soon, God answered her prayers with a yes, and Hannah had a baby boy. 

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She named him Samuel which means "asked of God". When Samuel was old enough, Hannah brought him back to the tabernacle just like she had promised God she would. Young Samuel grew up there serving God, and the priest Eli took care of him. Because Hannah was patient and willing to wait on God's timing, God blessed her by giving her a son who loved and served God.

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God's Word tells us to be patient also. Patience means waiting without complaining, and God wants us to remember we don't always get things when we want them. We need to learn to wait on God to answer our prayers in His time. We also need to learn to be patient with others even when things don't go the way we think they should. Later on this year we will find out how David and others learned to trust God when they faced big problems like Hannah and her husband did.

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Memory verse: Psalm 37:7 "Rest in the Lord and wait patiently for Him."