Bible Texts: 1Chro.4:8-10, Ac.14:15, Jas.5:17, 1Kgs.17:1, Gal.4:19, Matt.7:7, Rev.12:10, Mk.9:29, Jer.33:3, Ps.39:13, Heb.11:6
If you can travail on your knees, you will prevail on your feet.
Today, I want us to consider the power of prayer and study Jabez as our example because he is like you and I, the husbandman.
The prayer of Jabez is total. It covers every area of the husbandman. This was a man who had unfavourable circumstances around his life and family. His mother gave birth to him in sorrow. His name and that of his family was an embodiment of sorrow. But one day, he reacted to his negative identity. He desired a change. He wanted to move his family forward just the same way you have been longing to make the needed positive changes in your life and in the lives of your wife and children. So, he prayed.
And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me. AND GOD GRANTED HIM THAT WHICH HE REQUESTED (1Chro.4:8-10)
Praise God! God answered him and made him more honourable than his brethren and his family name changed.
Now when you consider the enormous responsibilities of the godly husbandman, you need the help of God to succeed. You need supernatural intervention to be free from spells and enchantment; from barrenness, lack and want, struggles, unsustained progress, addictions, failures, sickness and diseases. From our scripture today, the major weapon Jabez used in moving his family forward was prayer-effectual fervent prayer. Jabez’s prayer to God terminated every form of stagnation in his life and by extension his family.
As the head of the family, your desire to see your children make progress in every area of their lives is in line with the will of God. Your desire to see your wife increase on all sides and be blessed also agrees with the will of God. But these desires will not happen by chance. You have to make it happen by engaging the powerful tool of prayer (Mk.9:29).
Prayer changes everything and anything. Prayer recreates the destiny of any husbandman who dares to engage it, notwithstanding the challenges. Yours may be financial dryness. It may even be stagnation in your marriage life or addiction to drugs or unhealthy habits. It may even be consistent quarrels with your wife and children. Whatever the challenges may be the effectual fervent prayer of the righteous availeth much (Jas.5:16). You can prevail over them by winning on your knees.
Faith in God is the principal thing you require to get your prayers answered. He that must come to God must first believe that He is and He is the rewarded of them that diligently seek Him (Heb.11:6). Your fervent and faith-filled prayer as the spiritual leader of your sheepfold can stir up the needed changes you crave for in your life and in the lives of your wife and children. You can also move your wife and children forward, just as Jabez did.
Pray without ceasing because prayers will not hurt you but will make a way for you, your wife, children and home (1Thess.5:17).
SPIRITUAL EXERCISE
- Father, in the Name of Jesus, empower me to pray like Jabez did for the sake of my life, wife and children.
- Father, in the Name of Jesus, baptize me with higher grace to pray for my wife and children.
- Father, in the Name of Jesus, hear me when I call and change the story of my life, wife and children for good.
FAITH CONFESSION
I prevail on my knees to win on my feet because that is what makes me the good and godly husbandman to my wife and children in Jesus name. Amen.
(Culled from IN TUNE WITH GOD devotion of Monday July 4, 2022)
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