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To God, pleading before him at the temple for his provision of a child, just broken in spirit, longing for a child.

And the whole picture here in verse 20 of chapter 1 is God answering her prayer and her naming him Samo.

For she said, I have asked for him from the Lord and my wife, Heather and I have walked this road of

longing for children. For us, it was about five years of longing for children and God not providing

in the way we were continually praying and hoping and just the emotional roller coaster that was

even spiritually just wondering, God, why are you not providing in the way we are asking

and our story got ended up leading us to adopt our first son and long story short. Now we have

four kids in our home, two of whom were adopted, two of whom came along in the more natural way and

were in the process of adopting again. But in this picture, I'm just compelled to pray specifically

for men and women who are longing for children. And for whatever reason, God and His wisdom and goodness

is not answering that prayer in the way that they are longing right now. So I just want to lead us to

pray for them and maybe that's you or maybe that's someone around you or even if you don't know

somebody specifically walking through this struggle. Can we just unite our hearts together before

God for the hannas around us? God, we pray right now for women and men who are longing to have

children. Maybe, maybe single men and women who are longing to be married and to have children

or maybe husbands and wives who are longing to have children and for whatever reason,

oh God, you are not providing in the way they are longing for at this moment. God, we pray for

patience, we pray for faith in the waiting, we pray for trust in you and your goodness and your

wisdom and your power and your love for them. God, may they know your love for them.

God, if we could just join with them right now and interceding for them, God, that you would

grant them children. God, we trust your wisdom. We don't know all that you know, but God, we're asking

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