Pain Reliever The Prayer of Jabez

[1Ch 4:9-10 NASB95] 9 Jabez was more honorable than his brothers, and his mother named him Jabez saying, “Because I bore [him] with pain.” 10 Now Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that You would bless me indeed and enlarge my border, and that Your hand might be with me, and that You would keep [me] from harm that [it] may not pain me!” And God granted him what he requested.

• Pain hurts. Due to sin, the curse, and Satan, we experience pain on this earth. Lately, we have endured a lot of pain.

• Yet, God’s loving and powerful nature wants to alleviate the pain we are enduring.

• Let’s look at a prayer that Jabez prayed.

He was honorable but had a bad name probably due to the circumstances of his birth.
He was a praying man.
He asked God to bless him, enlarge him, empower him, and keep him from “harm”.
God answered him and relieved him from pain.

• God wants us to be relieved from pain.

How can we tap into the relief of pain God offers to us?

The prayer of Jabez sheds light on how we can tap into the relief of pain that God wants to give us.

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