2 Chronicles 1:7-12 NLT
7 That night God appeared to Solomon and said, “What do you want? Ask, and I will give it to you!”8 Solomon replied to God, “You showed faithful love to David, my father, and now you have made me king in his place. 9 O Lord God, please continue to keep your promise to David my father, for you have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth! 10 Give me the wisdom and knowledge to lead them properly, for who could possibly govern this great people of yours?”11 God said to Solomon, “Because your greatest desire is to help your people, and you did not ask for wealth, riches, fame, or even the death of your enemies or a long life, but rather you asked for wisdom and knowledge to properly govern my people— 12 I will certainly give you the wisdom and knowledge you requested. But I will also give you wealth, riches, and fame such as no other king has had before you or will ever have in the future!”
It seems as if God is speaking to us today saying, "My children, what do you want? What will you ask of me?" We have an open invitation to lay our request before Him, to show Him our list of desires. Many many times, our list has looked nothing like Solomon's list of wisdom and knowledge...yet we need those two things so desperately in our lives. That is something that Solomon understood. Yesterday, we prayed that our daughter would embrace wisdom and seek it all her life, and today we pray, in much the same way, that she would desire knowledge and be given that knowledge.
Dear Lord, we thank You and praise You for giving wisdom and knowledge to all who ask. God, we especially thank You for the wisdom and knowledge that we have received at certain times with assurance that it could have only come straight from Your hand. Father, we pray today that You would flood us with the knowledge of how to love and take care of a child. Help us to seek knowledge that would make us better equipped to carry out Your call on our lives, both our call to the ministry of the church and our call to the ministry of parenthood. Give us a deeper knowledge of You so that we may share that knowledge with our daughter and others. Help our sweet Ember to be full of knowledge relevant to Your call on her life. Help her to earnestly search for opportunities to gain knowledge. Give her knowledge of Your saving grace, Your loving character, and Your will for her life. May her heart never become puffed up because of the knowledge she has, but help her to see that knowledge as a precious gift from You to be used for Your glory. May she also put her knowledge into action everyday, always acting and speaking with wisdom. This we pray as we await the arrival of our beautiful gift, Ember Faith.
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