1 Samuel 1:27
"Devout souls delight to look upon those mercies which they have obtained in answer to supplication, for they can see God’s especial love in them.
When we can name our blessings Samuel, that is, “asked of God,” they will be as dear to us as her child was to Hannah.
Peninnah had many children, but they came as common blessings unsought in prayer: Hannah’s one heaven-given child was dearer far, because he was the fruit of earnest pleadings.
How sweet was that water to Samson which he found at “the well of him that prayed!”
Q: Did we pray for the conversion of our children?
How doubly sweet, when they are saved, to see in them our own petitions fulfilled!
---Even when prayer speeds not, the blessings grow all the richer for the delay."
Charles Spurgeon