PRAYER

PRAYER 1 SAMUEL 1 We are told of how Samuel came to be born. Samuel the prophet is a product of prayer. Samuel means “because I asked the Lord for him” [1 Samuel 1:20]. I am reading the genesis of why her mother had to name him Samuel. We all have Samuels in our life, things we asked God and he granted the answer to our prayers. Hannah Samuel mum acknowledges God. What did you ask God? Have you admitted that it was God who gave you what you asked? Jesus said “Ask and it will be given to you, seek and you will find, Knock and the door will be opened for you” [Matthew 7:7]. And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions: But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the Lord had shut up her womb. And her adversary also provoked her sore , for to make her fret, because the Lord had shut up her womb . And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of the Lord, so she p...