I can think of three places in the Bible where someone says this prayer. There\u2019s Abraham when he was tested and asked to take his son Isaac up to the mountain and offer him as a sacrifice.<\/p>\n
When God first called him, Abraham said, \u201cHere I am.\u201d<\/p>\n
Or in the New Testament in the Book of Acts, the disciple named Ananias was told to go to the man named Saul who had been blinded on the road to Damascus and heal Saul of his blindness through the gift of the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n
When God called to Ananias in a vision, Ananias said, \u201cHere I am.\u201d<\/p>\n
And then there was the prophet Samuel when he was a young man serving the old priest Eli. Three times he heard the voice of God calling him and three times he thought it was Eli.<\/p>\n
Each time he said to Eli, \u201cHere I am, for you called me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, I didn\u2019t call,\u201d Eli said again and again until that third time he realized that Samuel had heard the Lord. That\u2019s who was calling him. <\/p>\n
The next time the Lord called, Samuel was ready. \u201cSpeak,\u201d he said, \u201cfor your servant is listening.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Bible is full of many prayers, long and short ones, poetic expressions like the psalms or honest heartfelt pleas like the man who told Jesus, \u201cI believe. Help my unbelief.\u201d (Haven\u2019t we all been there?)<\/p>\n
But there\u2019s something straightforward and open about not asking God for anything, not pushing for any favors, but just opening yourself up and saying, \u201cHere I am.\u201d <\/p>\n
When anyone in the Bible says, \u201cHere I am,\u201d something happens.<\/p>\n
Put yourself in a quiet place and let your yearning for God be known. \u201cHere I am,\u201d you can say. Let something happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I can think of three places in the Bible where someone says this prayer. There\u2019s Abraham when he was tested and asked to take his son Isaac up to the mountain and offer him as a sacrifice. When God first called him, Abraham said, \u201cHere I am.\u201d Or in the New Testament in the Book […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":31085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[211],"tags":[159,30],"ppma_author":[476],"class_list":["post-24897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prayers-for-stronger-faith","tag-bible","tag-prayer"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n