We will call her Hannah Ryan...I have always loved double names for girls! :) Hannah means grace or favor. We pray that Hannah Ryan will know the grace of God that has been lavished on us by the sacrifice of Christ. When Hannah of the Bible prayed for a child, God heard her prayers and gave her a son, Samuel. In her prayer of thanks she said, "...He raises the poor from the dust, and lifts the needy from the ash heap; he seats them with princes and has them inherit a throne of honor." What a beautiful picture of what our Heavenly Father does through the beauty of adoption!
For each of our children, we have a passage of scripture that we pray for them. Hannah Ryan's will be Ephesians 3:17-19:
And I pray that you, being rooted and
established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to
grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to
know this love that surpasses knowledge - that you may be filled to the
measure of all the fullness of God.
So many sin struggles that girls go through could be avoided if they truly understood the lavish love that Christ has for them. We pray that Hannah Ryan will know and be secure in the love that her earthly Daddy has for her and that this will give her a better understanding and security in the love of her Heavenly Father. Being named after her Daddy will be a constant reminder that she is Daddy's little girl and that she is loved unconditionally by him!!!
Precious:) Can't wait to meet Hannah Ryan!
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