The Bridegroom Fast: The Prayer of Jabez

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“Come back to me!” He really means it. One translation says, “Come sorry for your sins.” The Amplified says. “Who knows but what He will turn, revoke your sentence [of evil], and leave a blessing behind Him …”  God says to come back until every hindrance is removed and the broken fellowship is restored. Say, “Lord, I need to be in that fellowship with you.”

There’s nothing like having God walking with you and you walking with God. When you can call on God, and in that moment, He shows up. God speaks to you and moves you and directs you. And, you don’t go down a road you shouldn’t go. Come on! There’s nothing else like it! Having God alive in your heart, where He’s speaking to you on a daily basis.

You might ask… “Will my prayer and fasting really make a difference? Come on, preacher! Will my fasting matter?” He says, “Keep coming back. Keep coming back.” One of the least read sections of one of the least read books in the Bible tells us, “Yes!” 1st Chronicles is the most boring book in the Bible. I can’t even say the names… Chapter after chapter it lists the Hebrew tribes for thousands of years.

But then, look at Chapter 4:9 – Something happened! The historian deviates off the path. He loses his thought pattern and goes off on a man named Jabez. It says, “Jabez was honorable above his brothers; but his mother named him Jabez [sorrow maker], saying, ‘Because I bore him in pain.’ Jabez cried to the God of Israel, saying, ‘Oh, that You would bless me and enlarge my border, and that Your hand might be with me, and You would keep me from evil so it might not hurt me! And God granted his request.’” Then, verse eleven goes back to, “Chelub, Shuhah, Mehir, Eshton.”  Do you see that there was something that happened?

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