Highlights:

- Peninnah would provoke Hannah due to her barrenness

- It’s possible to go through so much in life, that you can’t see your favored by God

- There is a need for healthy tension in your life

- In order for you to grow there has to be some resistance 

- You may look like a Christian but it doesn’t mean you can weather storms

- God is strengthening you through healthy tension in your life. 

- Just because it doesn’t look like it, it doesn’t mean God isn’t favoring you. 

- Don’t let the provocation push you away from God

- Let provocation push you into the presents of God

- God will allow you to go through things that others can’t recognize 

- When’s the last time you poured out your soul to God

- Use your bitterness and pain to draw closer to him