He also wants to give your heart a desire to spread the Gospel to others. Once we receive His blessings, we must never forget the Source. Often, we get so blinded by the good things God gives us that we forget about God Himself.
Jabez recognized this, and so he also prayed that God will continue to take the lead and guide his way. And we can maximize our blessings as we go along those right paths. Equally important is asking God for protection from evil.
There are many temptations and things in this world that may distract us from the paths God leads us to. Because of these, we need His constant covering over us. Thus, we need to ask God to shield us from anything that may take the lead instead of Him. Jabez is a very minor character in the Bible. He was only ever mentioned a few times, all in the book of 1 Chronicle.
His mother had named him Jabez, saying, 'I gave birth to him in pain. So, for the reason that her mother took great pain in giving birth to her son — more pain than the usual childbirth — she named him Jabez. Also, in ancient Jewish customs, the name of a person somehow foretells his future.
By naming her son Jabez, the mother is probably giving a vision of what is yet to come for her son. We need more than human power, we need a higher power John ! For example, in Daniel 9 as Daniel was praying, the angel Gabriel appeared and gave him understanding of the vision.
In Acts 10, Peter went up on the rooftop to pray and God gave him a vision. In this new series on prayer we will study some of the great prayers of the Bible. There is power when we pray scripture John I want us to start the new year praying the prayer of Jabez.
There are three reasons:. God Loves People The context of this prayer is 1 Chronicles. This book traces genealogy all the way back to Adam, which is the first word in chapter The writer summarizes the main stories of the Old Testament and lists the main characters. Remember your heritage! The stories of the past give us hope for the future.
You see, they had been in Babylonian captivity for 70 years. Use my life to serve Your purposes. Protect me from evil and deliver me from temptation, forgive me for my continual sin and heal me completely.
Bless my life with Your provision and protection. He will faithfully guide us to and through His plan for our lives—the good and the suffering. We are never alone, and that makes us blessed and prosperous. The mighty Sprit of God lives in us, in spite of us!
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Meg Bucher. Share Tweet Save. Sandra Hamer Smith. Emma Danzey. Expand my borders and use my life to bring you honor and fame. Enlarge my influence in my workplace, my community, my home. May I bring you praise for all that you have done. Give me a deeper love for the lost and the broken of this world and grant me access to be used mightly for you. Thank you that you have set us free and that you are bigger than anything we face in this life. God, may your hand guide me as I walk with you each step of the way.
Help me to trust in your righteous right hand that strengthens and upholds me. Father God, lead me into the territory that you would have me claim for your righteousness. Father God, we praise you for your love and faithfulness towards your children. We praise you for being a perfect, holy, trustworthy God that is bigger than all the evil we experience here on earth.
We ask that you give us eyes to see when evil is before us, hearts to hate evil and the desire to flee from its presence. We ask that you would not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil and draw us closer to yourself. We ask for the long-expected Jesus to come quickly and make all things new.
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