"... They brought the boy to Eli, and she said to him, "As surely as you live, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to The Lord. I prayed for this child, and The Lord has granted me what I asked of Him. So now I give him to The Lord." 1 Samuel 1:1-28 (NIV)
For years, Hannah had been unable to have children so she prayed to God for a child. Eli, the priest, had observed her praying in the temple and thought that she was drunk. After hearing her story he prayed for her, that she would get what she asked for. Hannah prayed for what she wanted. She made God a promise. God blessed her with what she asked for. She kept her promise to God and gave the child back to God. She was blessed to have six more children.
Be very careful what you ask God for, you just may get exactly that, and you may receive more than you asked for. Also, when you make God a promise, keep it. It is not good to disappoint God. All to often after God blesses us, we forget about the promises that we made to Him when we were asking for His help. Hannah remembered and kept her promise to God and she was blessed even more afterwards.
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