Prayer Of Jabez

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The Prayer of Jabez is the run-away best seller that has taken the Christian world by storm. Do you want to be extravagantly blessed by God? Are you ready to reach for the extraordinary... to ask God for the abundant blessings He longs to give you? This remarkable prayer of a little-known Bible hero can release God's favor, power, and protection in your life. It can help you leave the past behind - and break through to the life you were meant to live.

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This little book has challenged my faith to do greater things for a great God, and to believe Him for the miracles necessary to get the job done. After reading the book I felt inspired to put Jabez's prayer into song. Memorizing scripture isn't one of my strengths, but I've found that when a verse is set to music I have no problem! Download this song in mp3 format and sing it every day! You'll soon find yourself on the way to the blessed life, "sitting on the front seat of a life full of miracles!"

Book Description

Jabez who? And you might well ask! Very little is mentioned in the Bible about Jabez, and what we do have is squeezed in between a whole list of begats and begots - the passages of the Bible most of us are tempted to skip! But doing so in this instance would rob you of a great blessing, for it is here, tucked away in the genealogy of Judah in 1 Chronicles 4 is this now famous prayer. This simple petition is the cornerstone of The Prayer of Jabez and has become a call to live a more "blessed life" for countless readers.

The prayer is a simple one: "And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, 'Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain.' So God granted him what he requested."

The author of the book, Dr. Bruce Wilkinson, founder and president of Walk thru the Bible Ministries and a popular speaker for Promise Keepers,says he has used the Jabez prayer for more than 30 years, and testifies enthusiastically to the changes it has wrought in his own life. Wilkinson challenges readers to recite the Jabez prayer every morning and keep a record of the changes that occur. The power, he emphasizes, is not in the prayer itself, but "rather, the power is in what you believe will happen as a result of the prayer, and the action you take."

Prayer of Jabez Sermons

The following abridged article is taken from Pastor J McNair's sermon notes found at:
http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/djdickinson/sermons/041199p.html ( Used with permission )

What A Prayer

1 Chronicles 4:9-10
Pastor J McNair

This is not a very familiar passage of Scripture, because it is one of those genealogies where we get lost in all the begats and begots. Nevertheless, it is a very insightful passage. Here in the midst of all the names that appear in the opening verses of Chapter 4, there is a sudden focus on one individual, and I want to call your attention to him. After these verses the list of names resumes again. This brings to mind a camera scanning all these faces, moving rapidly from one face to another, until it suddenly zooms in and focuses on one individual, Jabez. This is God's way of calling attention to him. Though we have a brief account of who he was and what he did, the theme of this little story is that Jabez was a man who believed in prayer. His prayer is recorded for us as an outstanding example of a man whose life was changed by the power of prayer.

When he was born, his mother named him "Pain," or "Sorrow." That is a strange name to give to a newborn baby, but the mother's remark was, "I named him this because I bore him in sorrow, or pain." That remark could, of course, be referring to the pain of childbirth, but I doubt if that is what it means. If that were true it would mean that every baby born in pain ought to be named "Jabez," so it would be the most popular name ever, if that were the case. Jabez had several brothers, we do not know how many, who were probably born in pain of childbirth too, but this indicates that something else was troubling the mother when Jabez was born. She was discouraged, she saw nothing ahead but hopeless difficulty, and she named the baby "Pain," or "Sorrow," because of that experience.

This is telling us something very significant about Jabez. It is very likely that here is an account of someone whose inheritance has been squandered by the irresponsibility and dissolution of his father, gambled away perhaps, or lost in some crazy scheme which probably had some illegality about it, resulting in shame and disgrace coming upon the family. At any rate, Jabez's mother seems to feel hopeless, dispossessed, and gripped by very difficult circumstances. Jabez's brothers too seem to have inherited some kind of a family trait which has rendered them a proverb of shame in Israel. We can put all that together from the clues given.

But this child called Jabez was not to fulfill his destiny as a man of sorrow. Oh no! But Jabez was a man of a different breed - a man cut from a different mold! For the Bible said he "was more honorable than all his brethren. His life and character was so great that not only did man notice, but God took note of it, and had it written here that Jabez was more honorable than his brethren!

Jabez prays, "Oh that thou wouldst keep me from evil so that it might not grieve me." Actually, his prayer is, "that thou might keep me from the harm, the evil, so that it might not pain me." There is a play on words here. "Hurt," or "pain," translate into the name "Jabez", so what he is praying, therefore, is, "Lord, whatever it is that is in me that is wrong, I pray that you will keep it from 'Jabez-ing' me -- from hurting me," because that seems to be his lot in life. There are some things that are born out of pain and sorrow that we hastily label as "sorrowful and painful!" And we leave such things recorded on the ledgers of our mind as something we did not like and wish we could forget! But God knows that through the pains of struggle, inside there is a life of greatness that is about to be delivered! And God calls it honorable and worthy! Don't call it sorrowful! Call it blessed! It is always through struggle that we find strength. It is always through pain that we find power. And it is always through adversity that we find approval!

The story of Jabez would not even be here if it did not tell us that Jabez had found an answer; he knew where help was to be found. The remarkable thing about this little incident is this prayer that he prayed. Not much was recorded about Jabez's life except for these few verses, but God took his life and recorded it's greatness into a brief, yet powerful summary!

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Matthew Henry Commentary

The most remarkable person in this chapter is Jabez. We are not told upon what account Jabez was more honourable than his brethren; but we find that he was a praying man. The way to be truly great, is to seek to do God's will, and to pray earnestly. Here is the prayer he made. Jabez prayed to the living and true God, who alone can hear and answer prayer; and, in prayer he regarded him as a God in covenant with his people. He does not express his promise, but leaves it to be understood; he was afraid to promise in his own strength, and resolved to devote himself entirely to God. Lord, if thou wilt bless me and keep me, do what thou wilt with me; I will be at thy command and disposal for ever. As the text reads it, this was the language of a most ardent and affectionate desire, Oh that thou wouldest bless me!

Four things Jabez prayed for.

1. That God would bless him indeed. Spiritual blessings are the best blessings: God's blessings are real things, and produce real effects.
2. That He would enlarge his coast. That God would enlarge our hearts, and so enlarge our portion in himself, and in the heavenly Canaan, ought to be our desire and prayer.
3. That God's hand might be with him. God's hand with us, to lead us, protect us, strengthen us, and to work all our works in us and for us, is a hand all-sufficient for us.
4. That he would keep him from evil, the evil of sin, the evil of trouble, all the evil designs of his enemies, that they might not hurt, nor make him a Jabez indeed, a man of sorrow. God granted that which he requested. God is ever ready to hear prayer: his ear is not now heavy.

Scripture taken from the New King James Version. Copyright C 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permision. All rights reserved.