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P R AY E R G U I D E
A
Personal
Journey to
God’s
Blessing
A 1 Magazine Book
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the publishing ministry of the Navigators, an international Christian organization whose You are holding in your hands a dangerous little book about a dangerous
mission is to reach, disciple, and equip people to know Christ and to make Him known through
successive generations. little prayer. Right now it is in the process of changing my life; it can change
© 2001 by Jacquie Tyre your life as well.
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permission from Pray!, P.O. Box 35004, Colorado Springs, CO 80935. Visit the Pray! website at
www.praymag.com. I pastor a church in metro Atlanta that is becoming a house of prayer for all
nations. We adopted the prayer of Jabez as our year verse and asked Jacquie
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HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION® (NIV®). Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Tyre to write a supplemental prayer guide that was first published for our
International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights congregation. It struck a chord. More and more people began asking for
reserved. Some quotations are from the NEW KING JAMES VERSION (NKJV), copyright ©
1979, 1980, 1982, 1990, Thomas Nelson Inc., Publishers. copies until now it has found its way into your hands.
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10/ 05 04 03 02 01 Over the next few weeks as you put these pages to good use, I want to issue
a warning. This dangerous little prayer is not a magical formula or a good
Words of Gratitude luck charm. Bottom line, it’s not the prayer of Jabez we need; it is the God of
My deepest gratitude goes to the following people, with much love: Jabez. I and my congregation are praying for you and yours that He will
My husband, Mike, and our three sons, Aaron, Nathan, and Justin. Thank you for supporting me show you just what a dangerous, not-so-little God He really is.
and loving me through times of joy, sorrow, victory, and defeat. In many ways the very writing of
this book comes as the fruit of God’s dealings with me through our journey together as a family.
You are the best! Fred A. Hartley III
My parents, Wade and Charlotte Johnson, who have given me unconditional love, challenged me to Senior Pastor, Lilburn Alliance Church
aim higher, and encouraged me to pursue God’s best all my life. Thank you for just being you— Lilburn, Georgia
faithful, loving parents and servants of the Most High God. You’ve taught me more than you will
ever know. June 2001
Pastor Fred Hartley and the congregation of Lilburn Alliance Church. You have each contributed in
special ways to the development of my life and this prayer guide. If not for our Lord using you to How to Use This Guide
encourage, challenge, and give opportunity for these prayer guides to be used, this day would not be
here. May God’s hand continue to be upon you to the praise of His holy name. The Jabez Prayer Guide is simple in format, but powerful in results if a few
Jonathan Graf and the staff of Pray! and Pray!Books for seeing God’s hand upon this work and instructions are followed.
investing in seeing this book come to completion. May God bless you, indeed! 1. Don’t take shortcuts. The real strength of this Guide lies in what you
Most of all, my deepest thanks and love goes to the Lord Jesus Christ, for without Him no blessings glean and pray related to the Scriptures. Read all of the scripture suggested
would exist. He is not only the Bless-er, but the Blessing! with each day.
Dedication 2. Turn the Scriptures into prayer. Suggestions on what to pray are pro-
I would like to dedicate this book to the loving memory of three very special people who went to be
with the Lord within the past year: vided each day. We recommend that you turn some of the thoughts from the
My grandmother, Roma Thomas, affectionately known as MawMaw. When I was a child, she and Word you read into your prayers.
Papa allowed me to learn the joys of serving the Lord by their side whenever I visited them. What a 3. Stay the course. Pray through the entire Guide, If you miss some days,
marvelous heritage!
pick it up where you left off. The whole of this Guide provides a real cross
My dear friend, Robin Askins, who died of breast cancer in May 2000. Robin lived life to its fullest
until the very last minute. In reflection, she lived out the prayer of Jabez daily. Her life challenged section of important issues on which to seek God.
me to press forward and to not settle for mediocrity in anything! Her friendship was truly a blessing 4. Pray this for more than yourself. This Guide is designed to be used by
from the Lord.
the individual. But we recommend praying these blessings for your family,
Finally, Armin Gesswein, the great statesman of the prayer movement and a man I was privileged to friends, and your church. In fact, many churches are using this Guide corpo-
have touch my life for the last seven years through Prayer Summits and the College of Prayer. God
used him to speak blessings and challenges that remain dear to my heart. rately, with every member praying it at the same time.
—Jacquie Tyre
WEEK ONE
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“And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, ‘Oh, that You would bless bless me!” Not only was his prayer answered, but Jacob is honored for all
me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, eternity for his tenacity and desperate desire to receive the blessing of God.
and that You would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!’ So God Scripture: Read Genesis 32:22-32.
granted him what he requested.” Prayer: If you need to, confess your hesitancy to pray this prayer. Then by
(1 Chron. 4:10, NKJV) faith, boldly pray, “Lord, bless me indeed!”
W
Reflections: ____________________________________________________
e know very little about Jabez from Scripture, except that he ________________________________________________________________
was more honorable than his brothers and that his mother ________________________________________________________________
named him Jabez because she bore him in pain (the Hebrew ________________________________________________________________
word for pain sounds like Jabez)(1 Chron. 4:9). But while we know little ________________________________________________________________
about what Jabez did, we can understand much from what he prayed. ________________________________________________________________
There is nothing to indicate he made this request because he believed he ________________________________________________________________
deserved it more or thought he was better than anyone else. Jabez simply
recognized his need and voiced it before God. He needed God to bless him MONDAY: The Covenant Blessings of God
and he dared to ask, not having any idea how God would answer the bold The Hebrew word for bless is barak (Strong’s Concordance 1288). It means to
request. “kneel down, salute, congratulate, praise, or thank.” Our God is a God of
We know that God did answer Jabez. Does that mean God wants us to ask blessing. All blessings originate with Him, and blessings were a significant
Him for blessing? Absolutely! Our God is all good and He delights in part of His covenants with man through Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. God’s
responding to His children when they ask Him in faith and boldness to meet ultimate covenant with us—the Lord Jesus Christ—establishes us to receive
their needs. His blessings for all eternity. In Christ, He has been delighted to give us all
Jabez, whose name was pain, cried out to the Lord for a release of heaven we need for life and godliness (2 Pet. 1:2-4).
on earth! Jesus taught His disciples to pray, “Your kingdom come, your will Scripture: Read the original blessing covenants: with Abraham (Gen. 12:1-
be done on earth as it is in heaven” (Mt. 6:10)—a model of asking for God’s 3, 22:15-18); with Isaac (Gen. 26:1-6); and with Jacob (Gen. 28:13-15).
blessing, indeed. Prayer: Ask God to grant you the grace to understand and lay hold of all
Have you identified your deepest needs and desires? Are you convinced of that He has given you in Christ Jesus, blessing you freely, so that through
your absolute need for God to bless you? Then believe God to release a touch you, others may be blessed.
of heaven’s aroma into your life. Expect Him to reveal more of Himself in you. Reflections: ____________________________________________________
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Lord, bless me indeed. Let Your kingdom come to bear upon me so that ________________________________________________________________
Your goodness and glory are realized and revealed in greater measures in ________________________________________________________________
and through me. For Your Name’s sake. Amen. ________________________________________________________________
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