Giving Names!
Dear Lord, I pray for wisdom for those who are choosing names for their children. In Jesus name, amen.
In Psalm 139:13 (ESV), the psalmist is referring to God when he writes,
“For you formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.”
In 1 Samuel 1:14-18 Hannah prayed for a child, and 1 Samuel 1:20 (ESV) explains what happened next.
“And in due time Hannah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Samuel, for she said, “I have asked for him from the Lord.”
There is a note in the English Standard Version that explains the derivation of the name: “Samuel sounds like the Hebrew for heard of God.”
God answered Hannah’s prayer.
God knit together Samuel, and he knit us together.
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