1 Chronicles 10:9-10• Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers, and

his mother called his name Jabez, saying, ‘Because I bore you in pain.’ And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, ‘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.

Prayer of Jabez

• A familiar passage.

• A frequently preached passage.

• A short and little details passage.

• An out of context passage.

• Many possibilities in Jabez’s struggle.

Prayer of Jabez

• He caused pain and difficulty to her mother in giving birth of him?

• He was born with certain disability or deformity?

• He was an illegitimate child?

• Abandoned by his mother/ father?

• Haunted by shameful family tree?

Prayer of Jabez‘Oh, that You would bless me indeed,’

1. We do not need to resign to our fate or succumb to hopeless situation.

•. Everyone has issues in life that cannot be changed.

•. To live is to look and move forward.

Prayer of Jabez

‘And enlarge my territory,’

2. We were born with a plan and vision bigger than ourselves.

•. Blessed is the one who knows how to ask God.

•. God’s plan for us is far bigger than what we can dream of.

Prayer of Jabez

• ‘That Your hand would be with me,’

3. Greatest comfort is to realize that we are not walking all alone.

•. God is always ready to help those who need Him.

•. Real greatness is not self made but God given.

Prayer of Jabez

• ‘And that You would keep me from evil,’

4. There will always be things that beyond our control.

•. Drawing near to God is to distant oneself from evil.

•. Live above that we cannot change.

Prayer of Jabez

• ‘That I may not cause pain.’

5. Pain could produce stain or gain.

•. Stain in our life could be our greatest gain.

•. Graciousness is the best expression of one’s experience of grace.

Prayer of Jabez

5. So God granted him what he requested.

•. The pity of vain hope.

•. The joy of prayer answered.

•. The definite of our hope.