²⁵ For You, O my God, ^[a]have revealed to Your servant that You will build him a house. Therefore Your servant has found it in his heart to pray before You.

Confidence and Compassion in Prayer

¹⁴ Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that ^(A)if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. ¹⁵ And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him.

³⁷ ‘Thus says the Lord God: ^(A)“I will also let the house of Israel inquire of Me to do this for them: I will ^(B)increase their men like a flock.

^15 (A)Now the Lord had told Samuel in his ear the day before Saul came, saying,