1 Samuel 1
Day 5 of 21 · 21 Days of Prayer
In her bitter distress, Hannah prayed to the LORD and wept with many tears.
And she made a vow, pleading, “O LORD of Hosts, if only You will look upon the affliction of Your maidservant and remember me, not forgetting Your maidservant but giving her a son, then I will dedicate him to the LORD all the days of his life, and no razor shall ever come over his head.”
As Hannah kept on praying before the LORD, Eli watched her mouth.
CONTEXT
Original word: נָ֑פֶשׁ (nephesh) · properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
REFLECTION
Scripture gives us words when we have none. Borrow the words of 1 Samuel 1:10 today.
PRAYER
Lord, hear my prayer today, and help me listen as well as speak. Amen.
QUESTION
What gets in the way of prayer for you?
ONE ACTION TODAY
Pray with someone else today, even briefly.
Reflections are drafts awaiting pastoral review.
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Source
The Holy Bible, Berean Standard Bible (BSB). Public domain (dedicated to the public domain by BSB Publishing as of April 30, 2023). Source: eBible.org (engbsb). Editorial rendering: in this app the divine name "Yahweh" is displayed and read aloud as "God" (and "Yahweh God" as "God"). The stored text and the imported source are unchanged; this is a display-layer substitution, not part of the translation.
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