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Jabez’s Prayer

1 Chronicles 4:9-10

⁹ Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers, and his mother called his name Jabez,^[a] saying, “Because I bore him in pain.” ¹⁰ 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.

These are the only verses in the bible that talk about this man, Something about Jabez’s simple, direct request to

God changed his life and left a permanent mark on the history books of Israel:

My goal is to pray this simple prayer every morning, I want God’s blessings to pour from heaven.

The Bible says

‘Ask and it will be given to you’  (Matthew 7:7)

‘You do not have because you do not ask’ (James 4:2)

I have been reading in 2 Corinthians the past couple of days

There is so much good stuff in those chapters…definitely a book to re-read

I dont have a particular verse to share today…tomorrow for sure.

Since the 1st of the year i have been working
on getting my house in order, deep cleaning, hanging photos,
doing all the little things that have been swept under the rug
and forgotten about.
The Garage for one, i try not to go in that direction unless absolutely
nessasary, Laundry being pretty high on the list, makes my trips there
more than i would like. New Years Day i walked in there with a vengeance
and decided this was the day. Surprisingly R. joined in and we got rid of SO
much clutter.
I had a trash pile and a freecycle pile on my curb
All of the freecycle items have been picked up and
some of the trash (one mans trash is another man's treasure)
including our basketball hoop. yeah that was not suppose to have been taken
so if you hear someone bragging that they found a hoop in someones
trash, Please inform them we want it back! I have let this go,
my anger has subsided, its only an object. not the end of the world.

I also hung the vertical blinds in my dining room, they look amazing
by the way. 

cleaned out the back room.

And attempted to mop the kitchen 3 times in the last week, but never get farther
than sweeping.

So far, i would say my year is going pretty spanking fine.

Oh best of all, tomorrow we are getting NEW Tires on the car...if
you have not seen our tires, you would not understand how
excited this makes me, literally,they are as bald as Mr Cleans shiny head.
Not good at all.

God is so good and always provides and makes a way, when there seems
to be no way.

Put an application in at DES again today, fingers crossed we will get
insurance again. Many things that need to be taken care of.

Nighty night, boy i really should not have fallen asleep on
Adia's bed this afternoon.

For today’s verse i wanted to give you an excerpt from a book i am reading called ‘He Loves Me’ by Wayne Jacobsen

Daisy-petal Christianity

The Little Girl stands in the backyard chanting as she plucks petals one by one from the daisy and drops them to the ground. At games end the last petal tells all: whether or not the person desired returns the affection.

Of course no one takes it seriously, and if children don’t get the answer they desire they take another daisy and start again. It doesn’t take long even for children to realize that flowers weren’t designed to tell romantic fortunes. Why should they link their heart’s desires to the fickleness of chance?

Why indeed! But it is a lesson far easier learned in romance then in more spiritual pursuits. For long after we’ve put away our daisies, many of us continue to play The game with God. This time we don’t pluck flower petals but probe through our circumstances trying to figure out exactly how God feels about us.

I got a raise. He loves me.

I didnt get that promotion I wanted; i lost my job altogether. he loves me not.

Something in the bible study inspired me today. he loves me.

My child is seriously ill. he loves me not!

I have played that game most of my life, trying to sort out in any given moment how God might feel about me personally. i grew up learning that he is a God of love, and for the most part I believed it to be true.

In good times, nothing is easier to believe. On days when my family is healthy and our relationships a joy, when my ministry thrives and both income and opportunity increase, when we have plenty of time to enjoy our friends and are not burdened with need, who wouldn’t be certain of God’s love?

But that certainty erodes when those times of bliss are interrupted with more troublesome events

The day one of my friends in high school dies of a brain tumor even as we prayed earnestly for his healing.

The night my house was robbed

When i didn’t know from where my next paycheck would come

When i saw my wife crushed by circumstances that i couldn’t get God to change, no matter how hard i tried.

When doors of opportunity that appeared certain to open would suddenly slam shut like a windblown door.

Then i wondered how God really feels about me. I couldn’t understand how a God who loved  me either would allow such things into my life or wouldn’t fix them immediately so that I or people I loved wouldn’t have to endure such pain.

He loves me not! Or so i thought on those days. My disappointment with God could easily turn two directions. often in my pain and frustration, when i felt as if i had done enough to deserve better, i would rail at God like the job of old, accusing him of being either unfair or unloving.

Truly God has never acted toward us in any way other than with a depth of love that defies human understanding. I know it may not  look like that at times. When he seems to callously disregard our most noble prayers, our trust in him can easily shattered and we wonder if he cares for us. we can even come up with a list of our own failures that seemingly justify God’s indifference and beckon us into a dark whirlpool of self loathing.

When we’re playing the he-loves-me-he-loves-me-not game, the evidence against God can appear overwhelming. For reasons we will probe throughout these pages, God does not often do the things we think his love would compel him to do for us. He often seems to stand by with indifference while we suffer. How often does he seem to disappoint our most noble expectations?

But perception is not necessarily reality. If we define God only in our limited interpretation of our own circumstances, we will never discover who he really is.

He has provided a far better way. Our daisy-petal approach to Christianity can be swallowed up by the undeniable proof of his love for us on the cross of Calvary. That’s the side of the cross that has all but been ignored in recent decades. we did not see what really happened there between the Father and his son that opened the door to his love so vast and so certain that it cannot be challenged even by our darkest days.

Through that door we can really know who God is and embrace a relationship with him that our deepest hearts have hungered to experience. That is where we’ll begin, because it is only in the context of the relationship God desires with us that we can discover the full glory of his love.

he does love you more deeply than you’ve ever imagined; he has done so throughout your entire life. Once you embrace that truth, your troubles will never again drive you to question God’s affection for you or whether you’ve done enough to merit it. Instead of fearing he has turned his back on you, you will be able to trust  his love at the moments you need him most, You will even see how that love can flow out of you in the strangest ways to touch a world starved for it. Learning to trust him like that is not something any of us can resolve in an instant; it’s something we’ll grow to discover for the whole of our loves. God knows how difficult it is for us to accept his love, and he teaches us with more patience than we’ve ever known. Through every circumstance and in the most surprising ways, he makes his love known to us in ways we can understand.

So perhaps its time to toss your daisies aside and discover that it is not the fear of losing God’s love that will keep you on his path, but the simple joy of living in it every day.

On the day you discover that, you will truly begin to live!

How great is the love the Father has lavished on us,

that we should be called the children of God! And that

is what we are!     -1 John 3:1

I am on the journey to understanding God’s love for me,

I want to be at the place where i am not looking to my husband, family, parents, children

for approval and love. But to God.

For he has loved me from the beginning, through everything i have gone through,

through pain, through joy.

His love is all i need.

I am a child of the most high God.

I am Royalty

I Have Destiny

I have been set Free

I’m going to change History

2 Corinthians 5:11-13 (The Message)

^11-14That keeps us vigilant, you can be sure. It’s no light thing to know that we’ll all one day stand in that place of Judgment. That’s why we work urgently with everyone we meet to get them ready to face God. God alone knows how well we do this, but I hope you realize how much and deeply we care. We’re not saying this to make ourselves look good to you. We just thought it would make you feel good, proud even, that we’re on your side and not just nice to your face as so many people are. If I acted crazy, I did it for God; if I acted overly serious, I did it for you. Christ’s love has moved me to such extremes. His love has the first and last word in everything we do.

We are reading in 2 Corinthians in bible study,
these verses popped out at me, Wow...how amazing!
I love how it says we 'act crazy for God' in the NIV is says 'out of our mind'
So awesome...yes i am out of my mind crazy for God.
I am moved to such extremes by His love.

I want 2010 to be the year i win souls for His kingdom,
where i step out of my comfort zone and get
crazy for HIM.

The Lord bless you and keep you;

The Lord make His face shine upon you,

And be gracious to you;

The Lord lift up His countenance upon you,

And give you peace.

Numbers 6:24-26

He Gives power to the weak,

And to those who have no might

He increases strength.

Even the youths shall faint and be weary,

And the young men shall utterly fall.

But those who wait on the Lord

Shall renew their strength;

They shall mount up with wings like eagles.

They shall run and not be weary,

They shall walk and not faint.

No Matter what happens in life,  we just need to WAIT on the Lord.

Our strength will be renewed.

How good God is, always keep His word before you.

I wanted to start my new years idea early!  I was reading through my bible this morning

and this scripture popped out at me…One of these days i should take a photo of my bible

it has weathered the storms of life, been with me through thick and thin. My Papa bought

it for me when i was about 15 i believe, its New King James Version, although i do love reading in

other versions to get a different out look on what is being said.  I have tried to get other bibles

in the past, but i always come back to this one. I love it dearly, it carries so many memories, and

i know where everything is in it.

So anyways, i was reading in Romans, and saw this….i liked out it explained it in the message bible,

so thats what i pasted below.

Romans 6:1-11

1-3So what do we do? Keep on sinning so God can keep on forgiving? I should hope not! If we’ve left the country where sin is sovereign, how can we still live in our old house there? Or didn’t you realize we packed up and left there for good? That is what happened in baptism. When we went under the water, we left the old country of sin behind; when we came up out of the water, we entered into the new country of grace—a new life in a new land! 3-5That’s what baptism into the life of Jesus means. When we are lowered into the water, it is like the burial of Jesus; when we are raised up out of the water, it is like the resurrection of Jesus. Each of us is raised into a light-filled world by our Father so that we can see where we’re going in our new grace-sovereign country. 6-11Could it be any clearer? Our old way of life was nailed to the cross with Christ, a decisive end to that sin-miserable life—no longer at sin’s every beck and call! What we believe is this: If we get included in Christ’s sin-conquering death, we also get included in his life-saving resurrection. We know that when Jesus was raised from the dead it was a signal of the end of death-as-the-end. Never again will death have the last word. When Jesus died, he took sin down with him, but alive he brings God down to us. From now on, think of it this way: Sin speaks a dead language that means nothing to you; God speaks your mother tongue, and you hang on every word. You are dead to sin and alive to God. That’s what Jesus did.

We are NOT slaves to sin, when Jesus died and we accepted him into our lives, He took that away,

does this mean we no longer sin? of course not, but it does mean sin does not have a hold of us.

The sin we used to have before we were saved, should not even matter, it was our old nature, we are

now ‘a new creation in Christ’   Isn’t this Good News?  So if we do sin, Go before God, repent, ask

for forgivenness, and move on, its now in the past. There is so many things we can be doing for God

that if we stay being hung up on the things we mess up on, that’s where we will stay.

There are consiquences for sins, yes. But there is forgivenness in Christ.