Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.”Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother named him Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him with sorrow.”And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.And Jabez was more honorable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.
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1 Chronicles 4, verse 9 says, Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers, and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bore him 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. And let's read this last sentence together. So God granted him what he requested. Amen. Give some high fives, some thumbs up as you find your seat. today is the finale of the best of both worlds and we're looking at jabez's finale jabez's amen to his prayer. He says, and that you would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain. And the title of my message today is The Prayer That Overcomes Curses. The Prayer That Overcomes Curses. We've been learning that from the day that Jabez was born, he had been cursed. His mother had a choice to bless him or to curse him, and she chose cursing. …
… prayer that answers other prayers. What is it? Well, let's read our text once again from 1 Chronicles chapter 4. Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers, and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, because I bore him 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 and that I may not cause pain. And I love this. So God granted him what he requested. God gave him what he asked for. And it goes without saying that if we're not praying any prayers, we're giving God nothing to grant. Think about every prayerless day of your life. What a missed opportunity it was. If God opens a drawer where he finds a stack of prayers from his people, and he has nothing in there for you to, that you've asked for, what a missed chance. What a forfeited opportunity. …
And so let's read. 1 Chronicles 4, verse 9. Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. Everyone say more. And his mother called his name Jabez, saying, because I bore him 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. And Father, we thank you for your word. We thank you that it is living and powerful, sharper than a two-edged sword and it's able to dive deep into our lives. It's able to point us to you, our Savior. It's able to distinguish and discern the things that you are working in each of our lives, individually, but also together as a church. And so, Lord, we just humbly tremble before your word. And we ask that you would open our eyes to see glorious truths in your word. …
… Let's read starting in verse 9 of 1 Chronicles 4. Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. And his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bore him in pain, all the women said, men. 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 look at this. God granted him what he requested. We have called this collection of messages the best of both worlds. The best of both worlds. Because that is what prayer allows us to experience. There is a world that we live on. We call it the earth. and there is a greater sense of the world that John uses in the epistle of 1 John when he talks about what we are not to love, the things of this world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of life. …
… They conferred upon its subject identity and destiny. And though Jabez was considered more honorable than his brothers, because of his name, his identity and destiny was less than honorable. In Hebrew, Jabez's name phonetically sounds like the word pain and is literally translated to he causes pain. And if you doubted that someone could ever call their child pain, let's go back to the scripture. His mother herself said, I bore him in pain. and yet he was considered to be the most honorable among his brothers but was still called pain have you ever been good at something but something you had no control over casted a shadow on you has anyone in here ever been discounted before you could really be counted at all Here we are, we meet Jabez, and Jabez is literally good at life, more honorable than all his brothers, and even then, his whole identity is dictated by something he had no control over. Jabez, I believe, one day had to have had a moment when he realized that his name was what he was going to be remembered for. …