#625 – Children Belong to the Lord (1 Samuel 1:27–28)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 26 April 2019
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Summary
Children are wonderfully made by God and belong to Him. May we pray for children in the church and throughout the world to be saved by God's grace through Christ.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical. net. |
| 0:06.0 | First Samuel chapter 1 verses 27 and 28. |
| 0:09.7 | For this child I prayed and the Lord has granted me my petition that I made to Him. |
| 0:15.8 | Therefore I have lent Him to the Lord. |
| 0:19.2 | As long as He lives he is lent to the Lord and he worship the Lord there. These verses come at the end of |
| 0:27.0 | this chapter that depicts Hannah praying, pleading for a child in her barrenness, and God answering, God providing |
| 0:38.4 | a son named Samuel. |
| 0:41.9 | And Hannah says, the Lord granted me my petition and I surrender this gift, this son to the Lord. |
| 0:51.4 | He is lent to the Lord, she says, and this specifically leads to Samuel now |
| 0:58.8 | dwelling at the temple with Eli the priest, which is why it says in verse 28 that he |
| 1:06.2 | worshiped the Lord there but this is a powerful picture just think about it of what it means to be a parent or what it |
| 1:17.1 | means to live for the worship of God in children. Whether they are our children or children around us, |
| 1:25.0 | this should be our posture. |
| 1:28.0 | Praise and Thanksgiving to God for them. |
| 1:32.0 | Children don't come merely biologically. They come ultimately, |
| 1:38.6 | supernaturally from God's provision. he provides children and our response of gratitude and |
| 1:47.2 | praise to him with our children. I think about my children, they belong to the Lord I pray that they might grow up to |
| 1:58.0 | love and know and honor and worship God to glorify God. |
| 2:04.8 | They don't ultimately belong to me. |
| 2:06.9 | They don't ultimately belong to my wife and myself. |
| 2:10.8 | They belong to God. |
| 2:13.1 | So for us as parents to surrender our children to the Lord, |
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