A Prayer To Pray!

The arsenal for living life well has many weapons and The Prayer of Jabez includes one of the most powerful. Why don't we make it our practice once or twice or three times a day to pray to God to help us avoid sin? Think of the pain sin causes, to you and to others. Let's follow the example of Jabez.

A Prayer begins . . .

Heavenly Father, oh, that you would bless us, indeed, and enlarge our territories. Let your hand be with us, and keep us from evil that we many not cause pain.

A Comment . . .

I chose to use The Prayer of Jabez to introduce several differently shaped SoAmazing Cards which are called "Squares," "Rounders," "Zoids" and "Marks." There are 99 different Jabez Cards that you can print out. Clickle the NE corner of any card anywhere on the site and print out multiple color copies.

Check out our Jabez Section! Also, notice that there is a Jabez link in the left column of most of our pages.

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Two selected book quotations begin . . .

Keep Away

Bruce Wilkinson, The Prayer of Jabez, Breaking Through to The Blessed Life, Multnomah Publishers, 2000, p. 67. Part of the Break Through Series.    SoAmazing.com

Category: Christian Living, Prayer
Keywords: satan, devil, pray, prayer, temptation, sin, Christians, God, Multnomah Publishers, Wilkinson, Bruce Wilkinson

"We've arrived at one of Satan's hidden strongholds in believers' lives. In my experience, most Christians seem to pray solely for strength to endure temptations--for victory over the attacks of our raging adversary, Satan.

Somehow we don't think to ask God simply to keep us away from temptation and keep the devil at bay in our lives.

But in the model prayer Jesus gave his followers, nearly a quarter of its fifty words ask for deliverance. 'And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one' (Matthew 6:13). Nothing about spiritual insight or special powers. Not a word about confrontation.

When was the last time you asked God to keep you away from temptation? In the same way that God wants you to ask for more blessing, more territory, and more power, He longs to hear you plead for safekeeping from evil.

Without a temptation, we would not sin."

SoAmazing Review: Between asking for blessings, increasing your territory, enlisting God's power, and keeping away from evil, Jabez's prayer covers a lot of ground. It is ground that all of us should cover. I would not be surprised if The Prayer of Jabez, reaches the status of a "Christian classic."

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Prayer Circle

Kathleen Norris, Amazing Grace, A Vocabulary Of Faith, Riverhead Books, New York, 1998, pp. 59, 60.    SoAmazing.com

Category: Inspiration, Christian Inspiration
Keywords: prayer, Dorotheus of Gaza, God, Riverhead Books, Norris, Kathleen Norris

"While prayer may originate in our own desires, it quickly moves beyond them, into our life with others, and toward the greater society. The inward/outward dynamic of prayer is perfectly expressed in the way that the sixth-century monk Dorotheus of Gaza imagined our world. He saw it as a circle, with God at the center and our lives as lines drawn from the circumference toward the center. As Dorotheus relates it, the closer the lines crowd toward God, the closer they are to one another; and the closer they are to one another, the closer they become to God."

SoAmazing Review: Kathleen Norris' thoughtful reflections on familiar Christian words bring rich insight to them which will touch your soul.

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