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Book - The Prayer of Jabez
Author - Bruce Wilkinson
Scanner - RutzBiz
Date - 5 - 21 - 2001
Version - 1.0
Genre - Christian Inspiration
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The BreakThrough Series
The Prayer of Jabez
Breaking Through to the Blessed Life
DR. Bruce H. Wilkinson
To all who-like those Christians in the book of Acts-look at who they are now and who they'll never be, and what they can do now and what they'll never be able to do... and still ask God for- the world.
Without the friendship, commitment and skill of my writing partner and editor David Kopp, the early help of my previous editor Larry Libby, and the encouragement of my publishing friend John Van Diest, the message of this book would not have found its way to paper. I am so thankful that the Lord brought us together.
PREFACE
Dear Reader,
This petition has radically changed what I expect from God and what I experience every day by His power. In fact, thousands of believers who are applying its truths are seeing miracles happen on a regular basis.
Will you join me for a personal exploration of Jabez?
I hope you will!
Bruce H. Wilkinson
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LITTLE PRAYER, GIANT PRIZE
Jabez called on the God of Israel.
The little book you're holding is about what happens when ordinary Christians decide to reach for an extraordinary life-which, as it turns out, is exactly the kind God promises.
My own story starts in a kitchen with yellow counters and Texas-sized raindrops pelting the window. It was my senior year of seminary in Dallas. Darlene, my wife, and I were finding ourselves spending more and more time thinking and praying about what would come next. Where should I throw my energy; passion, and training? What did God want for us as a couple? I stood in our kitchen thinking again about a challenge I'd heard from the seminary chaplain, Dr. Richard Seume. "Want a bigger vision for your life?" he had asked earlier that week. "Sign up to be a gimper for God."
A gimper, as Seume explained it, was someone who always does a little more than what's required or expected. In the furniture business, for example, gimping is putting the finishing touches on the upholstery patiently applying the ornamental extras that are a mark of quality and value.
Dr. Seume took as his text the briefest of Bible biographies: "Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers" (1 Chronicles 4:9). Jabez wanted to be more and do more for God, and-as we discover by the end of verse 10-God granted him his request.
End of verse. End of Bible story.
Lord, I think I want to be a gimper for you, I prayed as I looked out the window at the blustery spring rain. But I was puzzled. What exactly did Jabez do to rise above the rest? Why did God answer his prayer? I wondered. For that matter, why did God even include Jabez's miniprofile in the Bible?
Maybe it was the raindrops running down the windowpanes. Suddenly my thoughts ran past verse 9.
I picked up my Bible and read verse 10-the prayer of Jabez. Something in his prayer would explain the mystery. It had to. Pulling a chair up to the yellow counter, I bent over my Bible, and reading the prayer over and over, I searched with all my heart for the future God had for someone as ordinary as I.
The next morning, I prayed Jabez's prayer word for word.
And the next.
And the next.
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