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Barb
03-21-2008, 12:52 PM
I admit to having never read The Prayer of Jabez, not for any other reason than I don’t readily follow the proverbial bandwagon.

However, someone bought it for me a couple of years ago for my birthday, and it was sitting there on my dresser…picking it up, I turned to a chapter that I’d like to share here…just a portion that is...

"Do you think God has favorites? Certainly God makes His love available to all, and Jesus came to earth so that 'whosever' might call on His Name and be saved.

But Jabez, whose prayer earned him a 'more honorable' award from God, might have made the case that God does have favorites. His experience taught him that equal access to God’s favor does not add up to equal reward.

Simply put, God favors those who ask. He holds back nothing from those who want and earnestly long for what He wants.

To say that you want to be 'more honorable' in God's eyes is not arrogance or self-centeredness. 'More honorable' describes what God thinks; it's not credit we take for ourselves. You would be giving in to a carnal impulse if your were trying to outdo someone else, but you are living in the Spirit when you strive to receive God’s highest reward.

'I press toward the goal for the prize,' Paul wrote in his last epistle (Philippians 3:14), and he looked forward to the day he could give an account for what he had done (II Corinthians 5:9-10).

The sorrowful alternative does not appeal to me. I don’t want to get to heaven and hear God say: 'Let's look at your life…let me show you what I wanted for you and tried repeatedly to accomplish through you, but you wouldn’t let me.' What a travesty!

I've noticed that winning honor nearly always means leaving mediocre expectations and comfortable assumptions behind. But in this case it has very little to do with talent.

How encouraging it is to find very few super saints listed among those God has placed on His honor roll (Hebrews 11). They are mostly ordinary, easy-to-overlook people who had faith in an extraordinary, miraculous God and stepped out to act on that faith.

What they discovered was a life marked by God's blessings, supernatural provision, and divine leading at the very moment they needed it."

tamor
03-21-2008, 01:16 PM
Awesome word, Barb!! :friend

Barb
03-21-2008, 01:26 PM
Awesome word, Barb!! :friend

Well, it blessed me, girl...thanks...:friend

missdkendall
03-21-2008, 01:27 PM
Awesome word, Barb!! :friend

Agree with you as usual. WONDERFUL

COOPER
03-21-2008, 02:36 PM
hi

Barb
04-04-2008, 07:51 AM
The tragedy of life is that there are people who have never heard a positive word. The negative has been thrown at them for so long, that even when hearing the Word of truth, they often find fault or hear it in a negative manner.

So if you need a good word today, here it is...

You are blessed of God!!

You are called and chosen for such a time as this!!

God ordained befor ethe beginning of time for you to be blessed so you could be a blessing!!

Receive His best for you today!!

Despite how you feel or what it looks like, you are loved by God!!

Have a great day...you deserve it!! :bliss

LilSissy
04-04-2008, 08:12 AM
Very good post...

Sister Alvear
04-04-2008, 08:18 AM
thank you Barb...very good...we must be postive people in a negative world...we have hope while others dispair....
Thank God for peace and love and friends and life and eternal life that is in us right now...