Bigger Praying

Thursday. 1 Sam. 1 :9-18.

Hannah’s praying changed. Hannah herself changed. She wanted a son; that was all. Then in God’s gentle love-fire her vision cleared and broadened, her will mellowed and bent. She was willing that God might have her son in his sweeping plan for a nation. So she became more. So she got more than a son, a national leader, and through him a world-Saviour. God would change the gauge of our praying so he can enlarge the gauge of his giving.

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