Jabez Prayer Quotes

Your Father knows your gifts, your hindrances, and the condition you're in at every moment. And He also knows something you can't possibly know--every single person who's in desperate need of receiving His touch through you.

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. (1 Chronicles 4:9-10)

Simply put, God favors those who ask. He holds back nothing from those who want and earnestly long for what He wants.

Ask,” promised Jesus, “and it will be given to you” (Matthew 7:7). “You do not have because you do not ask,” said James (James 4:2). Even though there is no limit to God’s goodness, if you didn’t ask Him for a blessing yesterday, you didn’t get all that you were supposed to have.

Most of us think our lives are too full already. But when, in faith, you start to pray for more ministry, amazing things occur. As your opportunities expand, your ability and resources supernaturally increase, too. Right away you’ll sense the pleasure God feels in your request and His urgency to accomplish great things through you.

The most effective war against sin is to pray that we will not have to fight.

The only thing that can break the cycle of abundant living is sin. Sin breaks the flow of God’s power.

O God and King, please expand my opportunities and my impact in such a way that I touch more lives for Your glory. Let me do more for You!

Thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence” (Exod. 33:15).

When we ask for God’s blessing, we’re not asking for more of what we could get for ourselves.

As God’s chosen, blessed sons and daughters, we are expected to attempt something large enough that failure is guaranteed…unless God steps in.

Regarding 'Jabez's Prayer', I will say at once that I am a very poor Christian, and indeed a bad man. My besetting sins are many, and the least of them are the fleshlier ones: the really deadly ones are pride and intellectual arrogance. But I can honestly say I have never sunk to confusing prayer: the soul's colloquy with the Creator, mortal man's dialogue with the Deity: with magical incantation and the ritual of the 'spell.

Jabez would have continued to lament in sorrow until he died with no hope of amend, if he was unwilling to change that predicaments through prayer. A person is helpless until he prays. Your situation remains when you don’t pray and disappear when you pray aright. Cancers can break off by prayers, HIV and AIDS can be handled in prayers. The horrors of abusive relationship can be dissolved by prayer. Every challenges of your life can be arrested by prayers. No condition is permanent when prayer is invoked.

Lord, enlarge my territory, grant me increase.

One day when I was out walking on an early January morning, the brisk air had quickened my pace and I felt invigorated to repeat out loud The Prayer of Jabez, which I’d recently read. It was helping me reconnect with God. I came to the passage which says, “And Jabez called upon God of Israel saying, ‘Oh that You would bless me indeed.’” The author’s interpretation of this particular section was that God was waiting to shower us with blessings, big ones; all we need is the courage to ask, as Jabez did. Well, I substituted the name of Jabez for mine and added a few twenty-first century verses of my own. I said, “And Karen called upon God of Israel saying, ‘Oh that You would bless me indeed.’ Pile it on, God — give it to me — heap it on — sock it to me — sock it to me — sock it to me!” Okay God, if you are listening, show me a sock! I knew it was silly, but I needed something, anything, to know He was listening. I walked a few feet ahead and glanced to my left at a snow bank. There lying in the snow, next to the curb, was a wet dirty sock. Not a comb, not a glove, but one sock. Now, I have the proof that God does listen, that He can be spontaneous and humorous. That day, not only did I take home one slightly used sock, but a renewed faith in God.

Isaiah 49:17-18 Your sons hasten back, and those who laid you waste depart from you. 18) Lift up your eyes and look around, all your sons gather and come to you. As surely as I live declare the Lord, you will wear them as ornaments. ·         Isaiah 49:28, the captives will be taken from the warriors and plunders retrieved from fierce; I will contend with those who contend with you and your children will be saved! ·         1 Chronicles 4:10 Prayer of Jabez ·         Isaiah 55:8, for my thoughts are not your thoughts…so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts and 11) my word will not return empty but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which it was sent.

Oh that Thou wouldest bless me indeed, and make these inferior blessings real blessings;

My Father, Thou hast denied me this outward and seeming good, now enrich me with Thy love. Give me the gold of Thy favor, bless me indeed. Then, allot to others whatever Thou wilt, Thou shalt divide my portion, my soul shall wait Thy daily will. Do Thou bless me indeed, and I shall be content.

But here, as of riches, it is indisputable that the greatest fame does not bring with it any equal measure of gratification.

We hear a great deal about the German “Fatherland”—we like the sound. But the word “Father” is the whole of it. The “land” is nothing: the “Father” is key to the music.

If today He deigns to bless us  With a sense of pardon’d sin,  He tomorrow may distress us,  Make us feel the plague within, All to make us Sick of self, and fond of Him.