Hannah and Mary's Trust in the Redeemer (Paperback)

Hannah and Mary’s Trust in the Redeemer is a seven-week Bible study for women who are still waiting on God. Verse by verse, it walks through Hannah’s story in 1 Samuel and Mary’s in the Gospel of Luke — two women separated by a thousand years and joined by a single thread of trust. One was barren. One was a virgin. Both faced a future they could not control, and both handed it to God before they could see how the story would end. When their prayers were answered, each woman lifted nearly the same song of praise. Through their example, Stephanie Watson teaches women to trust God with their own longings and His unexpected timing. Built for small groups — for the Table — the study pairs personal weekday reading with group discussion and video teaching, so Scripture is not only studied but carried into real life.

Every woman knows what it is to want something God has not yet given.

A child. A husband. An answer. A door that will not open.

Hannah knew that ache. Year after year she went up to the temple with empty arms, until the longing spilled out of her in prayer so raw the priest mistook it for drunkenness. Mary knew her own version of the impossible — a womb filled by a promise she never asked for, one that would cost her reputation, her plans, perhaps her engagement. A thousand years lay between these two women. They never shared a room. Yet the God who met Hannah at Shiloh met Mary at Nazareth, and when each of them saw at last what He was doing, she answered the only way her heart could. She sang.

Read the two songs side by side — Hannah’s in 1 Samuel 2, Mary’s in Luke 1 — and you will hear one melody. The proud scattered. The lowly lifted. The hungry filled. The barren made fruitful. One faith, one Redeemer, two women singing across a thousand years.

Hannah and Mary’s Trust in the Redeemer is a seven-week study of that shared faith, part two of the three-part Redeemer series on the women God used to bring redemption into the world — Ruth’s need, Hannah and Mary’s trust, and the gospel women’s life with the Redeemer.

Over seven weeks, this study leads women to:

• Walk verse by verse through Hannah’s story in 1 Samuel and Mary’s in Luke
• Trace the thread that ties the Old Testament to the New — one Redeemer, one rescue
• Hear the echo between Hannah’s prayer and Mary’s Magnificat, and what it reveals about God
• Trust God with their own deepest desires and His unexpected timing
• Pray honestly in the waiting, the way Hannah and Mary did

Hannah trusted God with the desire of her heart. Mary trusted Him with a plan she never chose. Neither could see the end of her story on the day she said yes. Their example is an invitation to trust the same God with yours — against all odds, before the answer comes.