An integral part of any prayer ought to be beseeching God for His divine favors. It was a prayer for prosperity. Here we find biblical support for asking God to help us prosper in material blessings. Some feel that asking God to help them prosper is wrong. This aspect of his prayer modifies the request for material blessings. Material prosperity without God is deadly. How often have we trusted in our own guidance only to meet with failure and find misdirection. It was a prayer for safety and purity.
Jabez did not ask to be kept from all sorrows in life. He did request that God would keep him from the effects of evil in his life! Prayer offered in true spirit is never offered in vain!
If we ask we shall have. God granted Jabez all that he wanted. He had success in life; evil was warded off; God richly blessed him! All aspects of life should be taken to God in prayer! Every detail of earthly life should be included in our prayers to God. Even those things we consider unimportant.
Final thoughts about Jabez. Even though we do not have much biography on Jabez, we can learn a great deal about him. God has preserved the history of this man so that you and I can learn how we can be surrounded by great sorrows yet become a great success! Let us cherish the thoughts of Jabez and follow his example in our daily lives! Moreover, the author paused in this long list to give Jabez a place of honor in the long list of Kings and lineage. Subsequently, question is, how did Jabez bless?
Jabez prayed that in receiving God's blessings that he would not fall into the temptation that happens to many successful people, and that also evil people may not try to harm him. This also relates to the phrase in the Lord's Prayer: "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Jabez was labelled with "sorrow" at birth, but his prayer against contracting sorrow nullified the label.
His life contradicted his name. Enlarge means to increase , expand or add on. So when God adds to your territory it is going to be something new - unfamiliar land. It will be something you. His mother named him ' Jabez ' saying, 'Because I bore him with pain.
And God granted him what he requested. Why was Jabez born in pain? His mother named him 'Jabez' saying, 'Because I bore him with pain. Who was Jabez wife? He lives in Atlanta with his wife, Darlene, and their three children. It is the suggestion that Queen Vashti was a disobedient wife and deserved the loss of her throne. It continues with story after story about women in Scripture who have coerced men, misled men, seduced men, and used men for their own devious purposes.
Collectively, we women are responsible in large part, responsible for creating chaos, confusion, disobedience, and all that comes with it:. Besides, that, they learn to be idle, gaddling about from house to house; and they are not merely idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not say.
All of the usual suspects are there: disobedience, lust, denial, greed, anger, lying, adultery, laziness, cruelty, selfishness, idolatry. And to a woman, we all long to be Good Girls. So what makes us so eager to throw shade at the women of Scripture; but give the men a pass? In her case, this woman was defined by her son, instead of her husband. Maybe her pain was both physical and emotional; but, what kind of mother would decide to transfer her pain to her innocent newborn child, to saddle him with a moniker that would define his existence?
Bruce Wilkinson, a professor of biblical studies, and a graduate of several seminaries B. Not that it made much difference to young Jabez. He grew up with a name any boy would love to hate. She was a mother who is self-absorbed and self-directed by the very nature of her DNA. Maybe or maybe not! These word pairings suggest her emotional state could have been connected to a stressful context, whether temporary or permanent and thus, the naming decision for Jabez, her son.
Further investigation into available biblical commentary leads us to another possibility.
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