A Blessing for Sammy
Nathan Samuel was born on Sunday, April 5th, 2009. “Sammy” is my first grandchild; therefore, I am a novice to the whole grand parenting thing. Sammy’s other grandmother, Nathan’s mom, Debbie, sent me the book Extreme Grandparenting by Tim and Darcy Kimmel. It is because of this book that I was motivated to give Sammy a blessing. According to Kimmel’s book, “A blessing is a sacred action, it is instilling into a person a high sense of significance and a hopeful future is best done when a person is young” (p. 81), Nathan Samuel's blessing was easy to give. His name provides the perfect blessing for this young child. Hence, in the company of friends and family on Thursday, July 23rd, Sammy received the following two blessings.
Blessing # 1 – That Nathan Samuel will Hear God’s Voice and Will Answer God’s Voice
In the Old Testament Hannah was married to Elkanah. Elkanah had two wives. His first wife had sons, but his second wife, Hannah was barren. Hannah prayed to God for a child.
“O Lord Almighty, if you will only look upon your servant’s misery and remember me, and not forget your servant but give her a son, then I will give him to the Lord for all the days of his life, and no razor will ever be used on his head” (I Samuel 1:9).
God answered Hannah's prayer and gave her Samuel. After Samuel was weaned, Hannah kept her word and took Samuel to the temple to Eli the priest.* While Samuel was serving at the temple he thought he heard Eli call his name. Samuel went to see Eli but Eli had not called his name, it was God calling Samuel. Samuel answered Here I am.
Samuel was Israel’s last judge and he anointed Saul as King, he also anointed David. Samuel was a great judge and a great prophet. *Hannah then had 3 sons and 2 daughters.
Blessing #2 That Nathan Samuel will be Bold and Fearless for Truth
The name Nathan in Hebrew means God has Given. Nathan followed Samuel as a prophet serving King David and King Solomon. The prophet Nathan was wise and he was a steadfast servant of God. It was Nathan that confronted King David about Bathsheba. The prophet Nathan was bold and he was fearless.
Therefore, Nathan Samuel's second blessing is that he would be bold and fearless for truth.
What an honor to take this action and give Sammy these two blessings. Amen
2 comments:
Wow, Lauren, what an amazing blessing to pray over him, especially from the generations ahead of him. What an honor to have such a Godly heritage! Tammy
Amen to that Sammy's Grammy! What a special gift to take the time to pray those special blessings into Sammy's life. He is such a gift and it will be a blessing to everyone around him to see the ways God uses him (and his Mom and Dad) in people's lives!
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