The Prayer of Jabez: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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