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The Bold Prayer of Jabez: Bless Me Indeed 0:02 We wanna honor God because He sees everything.0:10 You were born with a plan and a purpose. He's the God of all things possible. He's the God of all0:22 miracles.0:52 Welcome to Grace Grace with Naina Michelle. I'm Michelle Humphreys. And I0:56 am Naina Keegan. Welcome to our broadcast today. Today, we're gonna be talking about the prayer of Jabez. Like, this this guy, like, he just was so bold in his praying.1:08 Like, he's not super significant. There's this tiny little part in the bible in first Chronicles 4 9 through 10 that's it and it's just a prayer. And it's the1:17 genealogies no less. So he was reading the genealogies. Like I have to confess a lot of times I skip. Yeah.1:23 And he1:24 just was so bold in this couple lined prayer that he said, and it says God was so pleased with this prayer that he gave him what he wanted. God granted him1:36 what he prayed. And so I for 1, and I know Michelle is too, if it's1:40 in the Bible and it's it's mine. Like if if it's in there, I can have it. I can pray it. I can see it have it. We can1:48 do it because it's in the word, and God says it's available to all of us. So we're gonna break that down today and talk about this simple prayer that that Jabez prayed.2:00 I mean, it's And I mean, think about it. He had to pray it because, I mean, he didn't have to. But when you think about it, how many of you out there, all the ladies who2:12 have had issues in childbirth so badly that you would name your child your pain. You know, because that's what Jabez means. You're a pain and you're sorrow. In pain.2:24 And, like, I mean, really and and it was Jabez was afraid that was gonna be his life. And so if any of you guys have ever been cursed by your2:36 parents or by anyone for that matter, think about it. Like, Jabez was cursed by his very name. So think about that. Like, can you imagine?2:48 Like, your name means grace. You know, my name is is, you know, like, godly. And and so we have good names. Our parents didn't have a clue. You know,3:00 when they were naming us, my parents had no clue. They thought they were being original naming me.3:05 Like an aunt's name3:06 from Italy.3:07 So Yeah. But but you know, okay think about this. Okay. The prayer is so quick. It says, oh Lord that you would bless me indeed, enlarge my territories, keep a hand3:19 on me that I would avoid all evil and not cause any pain, not be the source of any hurt grief or pain. And so think about that so we'll start off with the first line. You know we all pray for everybody3:30 else all the time, we get our prayer requests lined up and you know I know for for myself I'm always praying for every 1 of my family and all my friends and the different prayer needs that we get that get sent to us and3:42 all of the things, the nation, and all of our leaders and on and on and on. But do we forget to actually include ourselves? Because you know why not? He said not only to bless me but3:53 bless me indeed. That's a lot. Bless me a lot. That's what he's praying to the Lord. You know, I want everything that you have for me. I don't want to miss 1 single blessing that you said I can have. I want your4:05 exceeding abundance, which the Bible says we can have. And so when we pray that like you know I don't want to miss out on 1 thing whatever it is that you have in store for me, whatever you have written on those pages4:17 in the book that that you have written for me, the plan that you know you have for my life, I want that and I want it abundantly and I want you to bless me a lot indeed.4:29 And you know I love that because he was so bold in his asking and I love that even in this boldness he expected to receive from the Lord and God4:41 granted him because he was such an honorable man and because he was bold in his asking. That pleases God. God doesn't want us to shrink back and say oh do you think we can4:53 just have like maybe just like a little bit of a raise on the No, ask for everything and if you, you know, ask for the5:00 big everything you can think of and if5:02 you get half why not? But I'd rather ask big than get than ask tiny and get it all. You know? So Exactly.5:09 And I think about, like, I hear people that are leaders talking about that, you know, they don't wanna ask for themselves, for a blessing or to5:21 pray for themselves. And I think, why not? I mean, this is a prayer that obviously, Jabez thought, I better pray for myself because here I am.5:33 I'm cursed. You know? That's what he thought. And and he needed God to break that curse, and he needed God to do a great and mighty work in his life so that he would be blessed and5:44 not cursed. And I think about, like, if God knows the very hairs you have on your head, if he knows when the sparrows fall, if he attends the birth of galaxies and the funeral of sparrows,5:57 don't you think he knows what's going on in your life? And he says, we have not because we ask not. And to go boldly to the throne of grace to find6:09 help in times of trouble, don't you think we should ask? He says, come to me with all kinds of prayers and supplications. And that's what we need to remember. All kinds of prayers and6:21 supplications. The big, the little. I'm always amazed whenever there's something that happens. Like recently, last week, in fact, my diamond fell out of6:32 my wedding ring in, like, a 300000 square foot building. Think about that. Yeah. And I was like, okay. Alright. Nobody move. You know? I mean,6:44 it's like, God, you have got to help me.6:47 I call the doors. You6:48 got this. Yes. Not only is it is sentimental. I mean, it's it's precious to me.6:53 Yes.6:53 You know? I mean, it's it's like I don't wanna lose my wedding ring. So something told me in my spirit, and I I felt like it was the holy spirit, you know, that he told me where it was I was7:05 gonna find it. But I thought we're gonna look in every, like, every step along the way until we get back to that location. You know? But God cares. God cares about those7:17 things. I found it exactly where I felt like the Holy Spirit told me that it was. And, I mean, it's like that giant building, but God cares. And I was like, God,7:29 there is no search in your understanding. You do not have to even think about where this diamond is. You know where it is. So I'm asking you to tell me where it is. And I felt like he told me,7:41 But then you you're like, is that me? Is that you? You know, that kind of thing. Yeah. And yet God showed me exactly where it was, and I found it. And so praise God.7:50 You know, and and you think about it when we're saying bless me indeed, we we don't just mean monetarily. I mean bless you in abundant health, in abundance of restoration of your family, abundance of8:02 peace, abundance of joy, and abundance of wisdom, and how to navigate things in abundance of discernment, and all those kinds of things that we need for such a time as8:13 this. As you know times are getting more and more crazy and more hectic as we see the news like head on a swivel about what's happening everywhere you look And so you know we can remain and ask8:25 the Lord to bless us indeed with joy and peace and and he will give it to you because we are no different than Jabez, we can have what he prayed as well. So we're gonna come right back8:37 in a in a minute. You are just watching Grace Grace with Naina and Michelle. Stay tuned. We'll be right back.Enlarging Territory: Expanding God's Influence 8:44 I'm excited to announce that we're having our biggest 3 in 1 sale ever with a limited edition product, a back in stock special, and a closeout deal you won't find anywhere else. So go to my pillow dot com8:56 or call that number on your screen. Use your promo code to get our My Pillow bed sheets, only 29 88. Any color, any style, any size, even Kings, regular 1 199:07 98, only 29 88. Once they're gone, they're gone for good. How about our my towels? They're finally back in stock, but not for long. Get a 6 piece my towel set, regular9:19 69 98, now only 39 98. And for the first time and the only time ever, get our limited edition premium my pillows. They're made with giza cotton and designer gusset.9:31 Queen, 17 98. King's only 19 98. So So go to my pillow dot com or call the number on your screen. Use your promo code to get the best offers ever. Quantities are extremely limited, so9:43 order now.9:45 Welcome back to Grace Grace with Naina and Michelle, and we are breaking it down on the prayer of Jabez because such an important small powerful prayer that a lot of people don't even know about, and9:56 you need to know about it because it is powerful. And, so we just got done talking about how Jabez prayed for the Lord to bless him indeed but then he says enlarge my10:08 territories. And so what does that mean? Expand your influence, expand your impact, use you, show you who needs to hear about Jesus today, where can you10:20 go be of of help to someone, how can you get the word out, are there people that you know that you see every day, that maybe you have just never even inquired if they know Jesus? You10:32 know God wants to use you and he wants to whatever your influence is, whatever your expanse is now, he wants to grow that and when you ask enlarge my territories.10:44 You know so ask God to give you wisdom for who to speak to next and where He can use you powerfully and maybe you're gonna write something or maybe you're going to publish something or speak somewhere or10:55 something. Be open to what God wants to do. Get your neighbors together. Start a Bible study.11:02 You know? Do Exactly. Right where you are, God wants to bless you, and God will I I believe our ministry is who is in front of us. Like, who this is who our ministry is.11:14 God will bless your daily life if it says this is what the bible says. If we lift up the name of Jesus. Right? If we lift up the name of Jesus, he will11:26 draw all men to himself. This is not about us. This is all about Jesus, and that's what we want. We want to be blessed by being a blessing.11:38 So so he prayed that we that God would bless him. He prayed that God would enlarge his territory, which is expanding your impact, which is what Nina was talking about, and that God's hand11:50 might be with him. And think about that. The the bible says that my righteous right hand will be with you, telling you which way to go. That is a blessing in12:01 itself and that God would keep him from evil. Now think about that. That's in the Lord's prayer. Right? That that that we lead us not into temptation. Deliver12:13 us from evil. So Jabez was on to something. He was on to something. We should always pray that God would keep us from evil because I don't care how long you've been a Christian. If you if if you12:24 think you cannot fall, that is not true. And Jabez was humble enough to understand that. Right? Yes. And not only that, but, you know he lived a12:36 completely transformed life through this prayer. Because when he prayed boldly, just going to God boldly and you know not shrinking back because it blesses and honors God12:48 obviously because it says God was honored by this prayer. He was able to live a transformed life, 1 that was literally he was named sorrow and that he13:00 caused pain. And so God transformed him into a life that was honorable and he used him and he gave him an expanse of his influence and he was13:11 able to increase his influence for the good in wherever he went. And if you think about it here we are a couple thousand years later talking about this tiny little, really it's kind of13:23 hidden, prayer that not a lot of people talk about. And yet it made the Bible, he wasn't some big hero of the Bible, he's not you know in the Hall of Fame that everybody knows his name, and yet here we13:35 are still talking about this powerful impactful prayer that we want you to know because we get to pray the same prayer. And again if you13:47 look it up it's first Chronicles four:nine-ten so everybody you know get your Bibles, get that prayer, even my little grandson knows this prayer because it is a powerful 1, and begin to speak13:59 that over your life every day and break it down yourself and what does that mean? Expand my territory. So then stop at that and say, Lord, what does that mean for me? Where do you want me to go? How are you gonna expand14:11 my territories? Because I know you're gonna do it because I'm praying it. And show me where to go. Show me what to do. Who needs to hear about you today? Break each part down and speak it, you know, like personally for14:22 yourself and your family about how that applies to you and how that you can have those things that Jabez prayed for him for himself.14:34 Well, I love that. I mean and and think about, like, it's such a tiny prayer. Yeah. Right? Like Matthew, 6 says that they that some, like, Pharisees, think that14:45 they will be heard because of their many words. This is this is just a tiny prayer and yet so impactful. So sometimes, you know, I I mean, honestly, 1 of14:57 the most powerful prayers I've ever prayed, I was on the interstate, and I felt like I was about to get hit by a, and it I didn't feel like it. I was about to get hit by a an 1815:09 wheeler, and I had no place to go. And so I was probably 20 years old and grabbed the steering wheel, and I had 1 a 1 word prayer, and it was15:21 Jesus. And I had no idea what was about to happen. And when I opened my eyes, which is really sad because you shouldn't close your eyes, but, you know, I It's funny.15:33 But I was bracing for impact. And when I opened my eyes I was in front of the 18 wheeler. So I have no idea how I got there but it was a 1 word prayer which was15:44 Jesus. Sometimes it's just help. Help. Right? Sometimes we just pray help.15:51 Yeah because you know it doesn't matter, God doesn't, He just wants to hear from you. It's about intimacy with Him, it's about you trusting Him, it's about Him wanting to hear from you and you know even when I think16:02 about John you know, you know John in the Bible, he's the 1 who says you know I'm the 1 that God loves. Like he thought his big thing in life wasn't ministry,16:14 wasn't all these things that he could do, it was his proximity to Jesus. He just wanted to be loved by Jesus, he wanted to spend time with Jesus, he wanted to be in the presence of16:26 Jesus, and you know that's all God wants. And when you just call on his name like Jabez did and you know, because what do you need? What do you need today? Ask him to bless you indeed. Ask him to16:38 to keep his hand on you, to direct and keep you and your kids and your family from all evil. You know, these are the things that he just it's like he hit every little thing that, you know, he wanted he16:50 wanted to be blessed, he wanted to be, you know, used of God, and he wanted to be protected and safe. Isn't that what we all want? We all need those things, we need them for ourselves, our family, our17:01 nation. And so if we all collectively just really kind of put this into practice every day, make it you know just just this quick little prayer, Add it to your morning prayer time and and let's17:13 just see what God does because you know I I think it's very important, to to change up things and to to find out what's available to us and and and let's just see if17:25 God honors his word, he's not a man that should lie, and he's gonna he's gonna honor this prayer like he did for Jabez, and we're gonna come right back. You're watching Grace Grace with Naina and Michelle. Stay right17:36 there.17:37 I'm excited to announce that we're having our biggest 3 in 1 sale ever with a limited edition product, a back in stock special, and a closeout deal you won't find anywhere else. So go to my pillow dot com17:49 or call the number on your screen. Use your promo code to get our My Pillow bed sheets, only 29 88. Any color, any style, any size, even Kings, regular, 1 19Bold Prayers That Transform Lives 18:00 98, only 29 88. Once they're gone, they're gone for good. How about our my towels? They're finally back in stock, but not for long. Get a 6 piece my towel set, regular18:12 69 98. Now only 39 98. And for the first time and the only time ever, get our limited edition premium my pillows. They're made with giza cotton and designer gusset.18:24 Queen, 17 98. King's only 19 98. So go to my pillow dot com or call the number on your screen. Use your promo code to get the best offers ever. Quine's are extremely limited, so18:36 order now.18:37 Welcome back to Grace Grace with Naina and Michelle, and we are talking about that important prayer, small but mighty, the prayer of Jabez. And, you know, when we're thinking about I had some I18:49 had some things here about that I jotted down about when you're bold in your prayers like he was you can ask for divine favor and grace, you can ask for supernatural protection, you can ask for wisdom, divine19:01 guidance, you can ask for supernatural provision in every area of your life, divine healing, divine health, and His supernatural empowerment. You know that19:13 you can be bold and brave and strong to do all that He's called you to do. And when we're doing these things, like the Bible says in the prayer of Jabez, right the next line after19:25 his prayer says, and God was honored and God granted him what he prayed. And don't you believe that we're gonna see this too when we're gonna just be bold and we're gonna see him grant to us?19:36 Well, if you think about it, you should you should pray psycho crazy prayers. It says we do not have because we do not19:45 ask. Yes.19:45 God wants us to be it says to constantly pray for to to the Lord. It says that throughout the bible Yes. That he wants us to be in constant19:57 contact with him. And so if you know that he is the healer, that he is the deliverer, that he is the provider, that he20:09 can give you all you need for life and godliness and for those who are around you, then why not pray these bold, crazy prayers.20:21 Right? Like, think about the the the hardest person you can think of that you think could never be saved because they're just out of reach. They are20:33 100 percent against God as far as you can see. Right? When I have prayed for those types of people what I have found is that God still intervenes. And when they get saved,20:46 they are some of the very best Christians. So when we say enlarge our territory, don't you think our territory is our realm? You know our realm, the people that20:58 we know and love, like people that are walking in severe horrific sin are not too far for the arm of the Lord to reach in21:09 prayer. We may not be able to get them with our wise words or with our nagging, but let me tell you that you can say like, sometimes when I when I have a21:21 pagan heathen crazy person talking to me, and I don't know what to say because I have no idea how to answer them, while they're talking,21:33 I'm praying. And I'm saying, god. God, tell me how to pray. How do I even respond to this lunacy? Because it21:45 is. It's lunacy what they're saying. And yet, God loves them.21:50 And21:50 you know what? God can give you those words, and God can lead them to himself. He wants he is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to22:02 repentance. And so this prayer of Jabez is something that we can pray. And when we pray to enlarge our territory, just pray that not 1 single person in your neighborhood, not 1 single22:13 person out of your high school graduation or your college graduation or whatever it is, pray crazy prayers. If you know people who are involved in the occult, pray that God will find them22:25 right where they are. If you know people that are just so far away from God and they were raised in church and now they're almost it sounds like almost blasphemy. You know what? God knows when they've22:37 crossed that line, not us. And so keep praying for them that it's not our job to decide where that line is. It's our job to constantly stay before our Lord and savior22:49 and call upon him to save them. That is our reasonable service. And you know what? Those prayers never ever go away. Once you've23:00 jetted off a prayer into heaven, that prayer is ever before the Lord. Even if you pass on and you've prayed for your kids for 1000 generations or for however long,23:13 that prayer can still be enacted because it's in that bowl, and that prayer is ever before the Lord. That's what I love about prayer.23:20 And our prayers will not return void. It will. That's a promise. No. And he perfects every concern. And you know what? We're just planting the seeds, God's gonna do the heavy lifting because he draws all23:32 men to himself. And so it's about he knows that person who needs to know him, he made them, he's not surprised by anything, but God always has a plan. And so if he's,23:44 you know, leading you to pray for someone or with someone, it's because he's gone before you and he is preparing the way, and so never shrink back. That's what this prayer is about. Ask for him to expand23:56 the influence, but also for him to expand your boldness and so that you can step out in faith and courageously go and speak and do all he's calling you to do for such a time as this because, you know, that's our goal24:08 now. Go tell. Go tell and and and let's fill heaven. Let's just get as many people to go there with us because we we believe you know time is short and that Jesus is coming soon and so24:20 we're all together we're going to fill heaven. So we wanna thank you guys so much, for watching our show today. Michelle, do you wanna pray?24:28 Yes. Father, we thank you. We praise you. We we call upon you, Lord, that that, Lord, that you will, bless us indeed, father, that, lord, that you will bless24:39 every person in this audience, lord, that, god, that you will keep us from evil, that, father, that you will enlarge their territory. I know we get so many questions about what does the lord24:51 want me to do, And I pray that you would give divine direction and enlarge the territory of every single person that is watching today, Lord. Enlarge their territory and25:03 bless them indeed. In the mighty name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. We have some great books. These are great Christmas gifts. The Nina wrote these,25:15 100 days with god 1 and 100 days with god 2. I can't think of a better way to start the new year off than buying these books. So you've got25:27 200 days here. Right? You've got, 200 days of the next year can be totally radically blessed. Order them for your friends. Order them for your neighbors. What a25:39 great gift for your neighbors. So or they can go directly to Amazon and order these books. They are tremendous, and what a blessing to your family and friends.25:49 And the money25:49 goes right back into our ministry. We just wanna punch pump that gospel out wherever it needs, and it's a good devotion so that people can, you know, just start the year with the word of God, and it's all glory to him.26:01 And so we love you guys and thanks so much for being such faithful partners to us and we love our viewers and we love hearing from you guys and you know all that God's doing in your life and send us your prayer requests.26:12 We just we we wanna answer everyone. We we we get lots of emails and so we just are so grateful. Stay tuned. You're gonna wanna hear from Daryl Youngblood. It's a great message. We love you guys. God bless you. Love26:24 you.26:25 Why do atheists care so much about Christians anyway? Well, they'll tell you this. Religion is bad. It's the cause of most wars. But again, evidence shows differently. It shows26:37 that out of 1763 documented wars, only 123 were due to religion. That's between 6 and 7 percent. 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