hannah's prayer

September 30, 2012, our families gathered together with our church family to dedicate Rebekah Elaine to the Lord. This is a commitment that Brian and I do not take lightly. We believe that God wants us as parents to raise Bekah up in His word. Our commitment during this ceremony is a public statement to our families, and church family that we are committed to raising her within the church and prepare her to make the decision to become a follower of Christ. We pray that when it comes time, that she will make the decision just like we have!

Hannah's Prayer is a constant reminder to put God first in Rebekah's life...1 Samuel 1

Hannah Dedicates Samuel

²¹ When her husband Elkanah went up with all his family to offer the annual sacrifice to the Lord and to fulfill his vow, ²² Hannah did not go. She said to her husband, “After the boy is weaned, I will take him and present him before the Lord, and he will live there always.”^[c]
23 “Do what seems best to you,” her husband Elkanah told her. “Stay here until you have weaned him; only may the Lord make good his^[d] word.” So the woman stayed at home and nursed her son until she had weaned him.
²⁴ After he was weaned, she took the boy with her, young as he was, along with a three-year-old bull,^[e] an ephah^[f] of flour and a skin of wine, and brought him to the house of the Lord at Shiloh.²⁵ When the bull had been sacrificed, they brought the boy to Eli, ²⁶ and she said to him, “Pardon me, my lord. As surely as you live, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the Lord. ²⁷ I prayed for this child, and the Lord has granted me what I asked of him. ²⁸ So now I give him to theLord. For his whole life he will be given over to the Lord.” And he worshiped the Lord there.

After our church service, our families gathered together at my mom & dad's for lunch and some good lovin' on Bekah!