It reads: “Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! I have written a more comprehensive blog about the meaning of Jabez’s prayer.
The prayer of Jabez is one of the most important prayers in the bible that we can learn a lot from. Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain.” Let’s have a look at those lines carefully and analyze what they mean.
The prayer of Jabez is a very short yet powerful prayer mentioned in 1 Chronicles 4:10. Jabez was not using prayer as a formula to get something from God, rather He was calling upon God to help him accomplish the promises of God! The prayer of Jabez in 1 Chronicles 4 is remarkable, but not for the reasons it has often been celebrated in contemporary evangelicalism. Moreover, the author paused in this long list to give Jabez a place of honor in the long list of Kings and lineage. What Is the Prayer of Jabez? Please click here. “They think that they will be heard for their many words,” Jesus said in Matthew 6:7-8. Remembering the prayer of Jabez. In the year 2000 Bruce Wilkerson turned an obscure passage in the Old Testament into a runaway best seller that sold more than 2 million copies in just over a year. We can not only pray like Jabez but also expound upon his prayer. The prayer has become well-known due to the publication of the best-selling book, The Prayer of Jabez: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life (2000), by Dr. Bruce Wilkinson with David Kopp. These are just some of the best lessons we can learn from the life of Jabez. The Mantra of Jabez : A Christian Parody by Douglas M. Jones (Canon Press, ISBN 1-885767-88-9) was published in 2001.
In 1 Chronicles, Jabez is a well-respected man (ancestor in the lineage of the kings' tribe of Judah) whose prayer to God for blessing was answered (see 1 Chronicles 4:9-10). Very little was said of Jabez in the bible, but the lessons from his life is one we can never exhaust in our life time. Jabez’s Old Testament prayer can be aligned with the way Jesus taught us to pray (Matthew 6:5-15). "Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him."
This shows us that Jabez’s main intention of asking for God’s blessing is for him to be better equipped in doing the work of God.