CHAPTER 4
PRAYER SPEAKS TO GOD: person to PERSON.
After my reply, “Here I am, Lord,” I remembered:
The purpose of a PRAYER of Samuel’s mother Hannah had been to glorify God — as had been the purpose of a latter prayer from a just announced virgin mother-to-be of the Son of Man.
Samuel 2: And Hannah prayed and said:
“My heart rejoices in the Lord;
My horn [strength] is exalted in the Lord.
6 “The Lord kills and makes alive;
He brings down to the grave and brings up.
8 He raises the poor from the dust
And lifts the beggar from the ash heap,
To set them among princes
And make them inherit the throne of glory.
Here I lay, in a conversation with the LORD MOST HIGH, which THE LORD had initiated. I gave the ONLY answer I knew: the answer of obedience.
To be continued…
A Temporary Throne is an original work of Roger Harned,
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