TAKE ME BEYOND MY EXPECTATIONS OH LORD (17)

Post date: Aug 26, 2019 3:55:28 AM

The life of Jabez, the success of Jabez, the oy od Jabez, the prosperity of Jabez and all that Jabez became in life were beyond all expectations. His parents could not believe what they saw him became, his family could not believe what they saw of him and in him, the neighbors and those who were waiting to see could not believe what they saw of him. Jabez was a boy rejected by his parents because of what they saw when he was born and what they thought before he was born. The name given to him came out of anger of what they saw when he was born contrary what they wanted, it came because of the sorrows his mother experienced before, and during his birth, and the name means pain, sorrow, or anger. But unknown to his parents who named him sorrow God was at work right from his conception, and his birth, preparing him to be someone spectacular in his hands, someone extraordinary in prayers, someone who will change the family history, and someone He will use to shame the devil and those who thought in their hearts and speaks with their mouth that God cannot change situations, God cannot reverse the evil that Satan in his wickedness and men in their wicked power had done in the life of a person, and people who thought history can never be changed even when one calls on God. God proved them wrong in the life of Jabez and He will prove them wrong again in your life.

The life and success and breakthrough and testimony of Jabez prove to all doubters, to all the past, present and future wicked people in the world, prove to all nonbelievers; proves to all none-religious people, and proves to all the faithless people in this world that God in His power and in His loves can change history, it proves that God can and will hear prayers, it proves that God has, and had, and will answer prayers, it proves that God can and do and will grant our request and it proves that God has and can take us beyond all the expectations of men, all our expectations in life and beyond all the evils things that we have experienced, all the humiliations we have suffered, all the shame we have been subjected to, and He can take us far above all of our past, and present and future disappointments irrespective of where they came from in our lives as we call on Him and surrender our lives absolutely into His hands.

Jabez became an honorable, respected, beloved, favored and successful man after God had answered his prayers and granted his prayers. He was not honorable when he was born, he was not respected as he grew up with disabilities and the efforts of a painful and sorrowful name, he was an insignificant man in the family, in the community, and in the nation, yet God turned all those around when He showed him favored through his prayers. all that Jabez did to change history, to change his situation, to change the words of men in his life and to change their expectations were to have an expectation of being someone better than what he was, someone greate than what all the people thought of him and even his parents, and the only way to do that was to call on God and seek His blessings and God heard him, God answered him and God blessed him. Remember his mother stated I gave birth to him in pain. At birth, Jabez was labeled with sorrow but his prayer contracting sorrow nullified the label and his life contradicted his name.

Did you know just like Jabez God can change your history for the best? Like Jabez God can change your life and your business and family for the best? Let us call on God as Jabez. “There was a man named Jabez, who was more respected, honorable and known than his brothers. His mother named him Jabez (pain) because she said, I was in much pain when I gave birth to him. Jabez prayed, called out to the God of Israel, please if only you would do good things for me, bless me, and give me more land, enlarge, extend, expand my territory, border. Stay and keep your hand with me, and don’t let anyone hurt me, keep me from harm, trouble. Then I won’t have any or will be free from and not have to endure pain. And God did what Jabez had asked, granted, answered his request and prayer.” 1 Chronicles 4:9-10. Prayer Request Click here