1 Sam 2:1, Then Hannah prayed and said, "My heart exults in the Lord; My horn is exalted in the Lord, My mouth speaks boldly against my enemies, Because I rejoice in Thy salvation. 
We are in the midst of our consideration that we are to exalt the Lord and our hearts are to exult in Him. This is such a vital reality that we must spend the necessary time to just rejoice in Him as did all those whom we have recounted to this point. Hannah’s prayer and worship and declaration of the goodness of God is to reverberate completely within the depths of our beings. There should be that calling forth, as deep calls to deep, that we respond to the praise of God with even greater and increasing worship unto The Lord God Almighty, Creator of Heaven and earth!
We pick up this chorus of praise unto the Lord in the Psalms, with Ps 28:6-9. The Psalmist is fully echoing the praise brought forth from God’s answered prayer as expressed in our morning’s text.
Ps 28:6-9, Blessed be the Lord, Because He has heard the voice of my supplication. The Lord is my strength and my shield; My heart trusts in Him, and I am helped; Therefore my heart exults, And with my song I shall thank Him. The Lord is their strength, And He is a saving defense to His anointed. Save Thy people, and bless Thine inheritance; Be their shepherd also, and carry them forever. 
There is that confident assurance that God will save His people, no matter what! We are to set our hearts and our minds upon Him and bring forth His praise and His worship as the course of our daily, moment by moment walk with Jehovah. He is our strength to make it through the trials and the joys that each day brings. For that He is to be praised! He is our Omnipotent Helper in every situation and circumstance. For that He is to be praised! He is our Defender, no matter what the odds arrayed against and surrounding us. For that He is to be praised! He is our Shepherd, Glorious and mighty, never leaving us to the wolves and the lions and the bears of this age. For that He is to be praised! As Our Shepherd, He always seeks out each one of us, no matter which way we may have strayed. For that He is to be praised!
Now please turn to Ps 32:9-11. The Psalmist herein encourages us to not be stubborn and mule-headed - set in our imaginations about what is and what should be! No, we are to learn to daily trust the Lord and be led by Him as each moment presents ample opportunities to see and to rejoice in the goodness and the lovingkindness of God. As His people, so blessed by His Omnipresence and eternal salvation, our lives should reflect the joy of our salvation with the unending chorus of worship unto Our Savior, Our God!  
Ps 32:9-11, Do not be as the horse or as the mule which have no understanding, Whose trappings include bit and bridle to hold them in check, Otherwise they will not come near to you. Many are the sorrows of the wicked; But he who trusts in the Lord, lovingkindness shall surround him. Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, you righteous ones, And shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart. 
When we first come to know the Lord, we need to come into the reality of death to self that the Life of Jesus Christ will reign supremely in our lives. This requires that training and that discipline which can be equated to the instruction of a stubborn horse or mule under the patient and deliberate hand of the one doing the training. This requires the guidance, and the deliberate and unyielding correction, as with a bridle and bit. 
However, after we have been brought through those intense sessions of the Lord’s work in our lives, we should no longer be in need of the harness and the rein. We should learn to know the quiet and still voice of the Holy Spirit within our hearts and minds. His whispered direction should prompt our earnest and desirous obedience unto the fullness of the joy of the perfection of the Hand of God upon our lives. This work should cause us to rejoice that we are so loved! Our hearts and beings should evidence the satisfaction and the delight of being in the course of the very plan and purpose of God in His design of humanity.
This, then, will lead to the utmost praise throughout all the universe as recounted by the Psalmist in Ps 148. Please turn to it so we can all join our hearts with the creation of God in the praise and adoration and exultation that He, Alone, deserves! 
Ps 148, Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord from the heavens; Praise Him in the heights! Praise Him, all His angels; Praise Him, all His hosts! Praise Him, sun and moon; Praise Him, all stars of light! Praise Him, highest heavens, And the waters that are above the heavens! Let them praise the name of the Lord, For He commanded and they were created. He has also established them forever and ever; He has made a decree which will not pass away. Praise the Lord from the earth, Sea monsters and all deeps; Fire and hail, snow and clouds; Stormy wind, fulfilling His word; Mountains and all hills; Fruit trees and all cedars; Beasts and all cattle; Creeping things and winged fowl; Kings of the earth and all peoples; Princes and all judges of the earth; Both young men and virgins; Old men and children. Let them praise the name of the Lord, For His name alone is exalted; His glory is above earth and heaven. And He has lifted up a horn for His people, Praise for all His godly ones; Even for the sons of Israel, a people near to Him. Praise the Lord! 
The prayer of Hannah, this morning’s passage, echoes throughout the glory of this Psalm of praise. "My heart exults in the Lord; My horn is exalted in the Lord, My mouth speaks boldly against my enemies, Because I rejoice in Thy salvation. 
In it we see the fruition of the plan of God coming into being. As His salvation proceeds forth unto His people, through the glorious and victorious work of the death and resurrection of The Only Begotten Son of God! Accordingly, the whole of creation rejoices in the wondrous splendor of what the Lord God Almighty, Creator of Heaven and earth has accomplished! Every element of creation, from the angelic hosts to the creatures on the earth and in the depths of the seas all exalt the glory and the praise and the honor of Jehovah, Yahweh, The Lord God Almighty, Great and Awesome! The whole of creation will be singing forth His praises forever and forever.
This then brings us to the Prophet Isaiah and the call forth unto the people of God to stand upright and to join in this chorus of praise and exultation in the Lord. Please turn to Isa 60:1-5, wherein the Prophet encourages each of us to rise up from the darkness of our imagined frustration and our enslavement to the depressing visions of this age. We are to open our eyes to the light of God as He reveals His victory, eternally triumphant and glorious and clothed in majesty!
Isa 60:1-5, "Arise, shine; for your light has come, And the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. "For behold, darkness will cover the earth, And deep darkness the peoples; But the Lord will rise upon you, And His glory will appear upon you. "And nations will come to your light, And kings to the brightness of your rising. "Lift up your eyes round about, and see; They all gather together, they come to you. Your sons will come from afar, And your daughters will be carried in the arms. "Then you will see and be radiant, And your heart will thrill and rejoice; Because the abundance of the sea will be turned to you, The wealth of the nations will come to you. 
In the writings of Isaiah there is encapsulated the hope of all that God has brought into place in His saving grace and mercy and love. We are to wrest our eyes away from the deception of this age with its moans of agony and lies of defeat. This world power tries to pull down the blind on the truth of Who God is and all that He has done, is doing, and has eternally accomplished in the work of the Only Begotten of the Father. We must never capitulate or give up! While this age futilely tries to minimize and diminish and tarnish and eliminate the victory of Christ, it is all just a dark sheath vainly trying to block out the Light of the Son. The glory of God, seen in the resurrection power of Jesus, the Son of God, is never dimmed nor diminished nor kept from shining forth in the Triumphant Splendor of His Eternal Victory over death and sin!  
Accordingly, we are to see ourselves in His Light, the Life of Christ, and to ask Him to prepare us for all that is His plan and His purpose in being the living witnesses of Him within this present age. As we mentioned earlier, we are in need of that tremendous and patient working of God which puts our self-life to death for the life of Christ to be in full evidence as the very means and expression of our sojourn on this earth. We are to arise and shine forth, not of ourselves, but as those in whom the life of Jesus Christ is everything, every moment of every day of our walk on this earth! 
Then we will join in the chorus as delineated by Isaiah in Isa 61:10+11. Isa 61:10+11, I will rejoice greatly in the Lord, My soul will exult in my God; For He has clothed me with garments of salvation, He has wrapped me with a robe of righteousness, As a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. For as the earth brings forth its sprouts, And as a garden causes the things sown in it to spring up, So the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise To spring up before all the nations. 
This image of the marriage union as seen in the preparation of the bridegroom and the bride carries with it that complete work of God seen in His desire for a relationship with His creation. Mankind was created for that purpose. God wanted to have more than just that nebulous relatedness as Creator. He was and is desirous after a people with whom He can share an intimacy of coming together in love and in rapport and in relational connection. It has ever been the purpose of mankind to so be the recipient of the great love of God which would transform our bond together into that which is a family! It is a related purpose and affiliation in Jesus Christ which transcends anything that ever was and it will fulfill what ever is to be.
The writer of the Book of The Revelation of Jesus Christ holds forth this same image as the result of the wondrous and awesome work of God. Please open to Rev 19:6-8, as we have the picture of how all creation will be exulting in the manifested victory that God has accomplished in the creation of man’s redemptive essence, the fulfilled work of the Lord God Almighty.
Rev 19:6-8, And I heard, as it were, the voice of a great multitude and as the sound of many waters and as the sound of mighty peals of thunder, saying, "Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns. "Let us rejoice and be glad and give the glory to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come and His bride has made herself ready." 
Then, in verses 11-16 of this 19th Chapter of Revelation, the writer details what will be seen as the groom presents Himself to the Church, His pure and perfected Bride. He will not be merely the Lamb Who was slain. At this point, we definitely need to be very careful never to minimize nor take that splendid work of Christ for granted. Our whole eternity rests on that tremendous act of His selfless love and grace and mercy. 
However, in these verses, we see Him as the glorified One! He is the Lord over all the domains of humanity! He is the Ensign of the victory that He has won. The majestic glory of God will be seen as the Bridegroom is presented in all His splendor and majesty and glory and honor and magnificence unto His redeemed people. 
Rev 19:11-16, And I saw heaven opened; and behold, a white horse, and He who sat upon it is called Faithful and True; and in righteousness He judges and wages war. And His eyes are a flame of fire, and upon His head are many diadems; and He has a name written upon Him which no one knows except Himself. And He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood; and His name is called The Word of God. And the armies which are in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, were following Him on white horses. And from His mouth comes a sharp sword, so that with it He may smite the nations; and He will rule them with a rod of iron; and He treads the wine press of the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty. And on His robe and on His thigh He has a name written, "KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS." 
We will fall on our faces before the splendor of the Lord Jesus Christ and exclaim with endless shouts of acclimation our heart of love for Him! We will proclaim His excellence and rejoice in all that He has done. We will echo the prayer of this morning’s passage with the every fiber of our being - "My heart exults in the Lord; My horn is exalted in the Lord, My mouth speaks boldly against my enemies, Because I rejoice in Thy salvation. 
This will be the resounding anthem and chorus of the redeemed of the Lord as we declare the majesty of God and the grandeur of the great work that He has done in order to bring us into His very family. We will give Him all acclimation of worship for the greatness of His love in the course of how He is proving Himself Faithful and True and Just and Righteous and Holy and Awesome, over and over and over again, without any faltering or failing! He is the "KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS!" He, Alone, deserves all praise and honor and worship as He has done the perfect and excellent work, manifesting His heart’s desire in bringing forth the relationship of family with a people unto Himself. So be it!
Then Hannah prayed and said, "My heart exults in the Lord; My horn is exalted in the Lord, My mouth speaks boldly against my enemies, Because I rejoice in Thy salvation. Amen.

This morning’s benediction is 1 Sam 2:2. "There is no one holy like the Lord, Indeed, there is no one besides Thee, Nor is there any rock like our God. Amen.