The Prayer of Jabez

I am honored to be here I thank God for you you know sometimes we are we are so close that we sometimes struggle with the nearness of greatness sometimes we're so close to greatness that we are in danger of missing it and I I wonder do you realize how much God loves you and wonder do you realize how much God loves you and that one of the expressions of God's love for you he said he would plant you and place you in this house and as a demonstration of the greatness of God's love for you that he would plant you here that you might grow that you might learn that you might mature that you might become more of what God has called you to be it is a demonstration of how much God loves you I don't know that you know many of you may know but your pastor is loved and honored and revered around the world especially but not limited yes especially in the Pentecostal community around the world he is honored we great thank God for him he stands as a general as a leader in the body of Christ he stands as an apostolic demonstration of the body of Christ and we praise God for him and you get to sin under him every Sunday Wow look at that now one more time help me praise God okay bless you bless you come with me to the book of first Chronicles first Chronicles first Chronicles I'll give you a moment to find it first chronicles chapter 4 first chronicles chapter 4 and again forgive me if I break some of the rules I don't know the rules here so if I get out of bounds and just forgive me and overlook it because I'm from Hollywood and they we do crazy stuff out there anyway okay first chronicles chapter 4 we're gonna look at verse 9 and verse 10 verse 9 and verse 10 if you have it say Amen if you don't have a say wait up all right we'll wait is in there it's in there first Chronicles and so on page 447 in my Bibles rendus first chronicles chapter 4 verses 9 and verse 10 amen now jay-bez was more honorable than his brothers his mother had named him jay-bez saying I gave birth to him in pain when version says I he he was born in pain jay-bez cried out to God the God of Israel and this is what he prayed O Lord that you would bless me and enlarge my territory let your hand be with me and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain and God granted his request father it is in the name of Jesus that we come around your word now and we pray that you would release the teaching ministry of your Holy Spirit I pray that you would break up the fallow ground and prepare our hearts and minds and spirits that we might be receptive soil for the seed of your word it is to that end and I'm available for you now to use me according to your will stand in my body think with my mind and speak with my tongue and say to us those things you would have us know and do it in the name of him who loved us enough to die for in Jesus name Amen this passage in first chronicles chapter 4 is found in a series of passages that introduces name after name after name it begins the chapter before talks about the sons of David the sons of David this chapter 4 begins and it speaks of the descendants of Judah and if you were to go back and forward you would discover that each chapter reveals a different tribe or a different family and the Bible says they are sons of and sons of and sons of or it will say the father of the father of the father of and it is in this passage that this man jay-bez appears usually when I and there are several sections of scriptures that are like this that that give genealogies and family heritage and family lineage and it talks about the father of the father of the father of or the son of the son of the son of and often when I get to that page that's I just kind of flipped the pages and look over to when they get past all those names and they get down to the good stuff but it is in this passage in chapter 4 that we are introduced to a man by the name of jay-bez everyone say jay-bez his name was Jay bears and this man makes the pages of biblical history for one reason only all that we know of him most significantly is found in these two verses and he is his name has gone down in the history of biblical revelation for one reason only he was a man who prayed a prayer and God answered his prayer that's his biography if they were to put something on his tombstone when he died they could simply said he prayed God answered the summary of his whole life the Bible says he prayed a prayer and God answered that prayer he was a man who was able to get a prayer through and God answered his prayer by the way how how's your prayer life how how is your prayer discipline how how often do you spend time praying to God is it a part of your daily routine a part of your lifestyle he was a man of Prayer and then the Bible says he prayed and God heard his prayer he prayed and God heard his prayer I want to teach us this prayer I want us today I want us to leave learning how to pray this prayer that we would add this prayer to our prayer content as we come before God this is a powerful prayer to pray this jay-bez prayer is a powerful prayer to pray and we're going to learn how to pray that prayer today the Bible says the man's name was jay-bez jay-bez the word jay-bez the name jay-bez means sorrow it means sorrow the name means grief the name means pain the meaning of this name the meaning of the name it means sorrow it means grief it means pain his name was pain and when they called him they said hey pain because his name was pain when it was time to come in and eat the mother would say pain come and eat when they were maybe playing and the kids were playing and they would take turns someone would say pain it's your turn because his name was pain every time they called his name his name was pain now the Bible says his mother named him the Bible says his his mother named him we we just got word that the the princess and the prince of London of Europe England just had a baby and it the whole world was waiting to see what they would name this baby it was a Lewis Charles Albert William bond got about five names I don't know they just ran out of names on this kid because the whole world was waiting to see what would they name him because the naming of a child is important so the world has been on pins and needles for the last couple of days a week or so waiting to see what would they name this new Prince fifth in line for the throne and finally they announced his name is Lewis and and so so they they named him Lewis the Bible says this man's name was jay-bez and the Bible says his mother named him his mother named him Payne and then the Bible goes on to tell us why she named him pain the Bible says she named him pain she named him jay-bez because she birthed him in pain the Bible says when he was born she she experienced great pain and the pain was so significant that she gave the boy the son the name pain she experienced pain and put pain in his name let me try this out over here these guys didn't get it on this side they didn't get it by the way every now and if you just kind of knocked your hair let me know you're waked I'll help me right now I throw in on a man every now and then just cost me a man that'd be just one of law feel right at home okay here's what the Bible says that the woman's name the number the woman named the Sun pain named him jay-bez and then the Bible says why she did that she did that because Bible says because she bore him she birthed him in pain so so that so that went when the baby was born she experienced great pain and the pain was so significant in her life that she named him pain now listen it wasn't his pain it wasn't the baby's pain it wasn't the sons pain the Bible clearly says it was her pain and yet she put pain on him she put pain on him and he lived the rest of the life with pain that someone else put on him do you know anyone who has had to live with pain put on them do you know anyone it wasn't even your fault and yet someone put pain on you do you know anyone who has had to live with scars that someone else put on them do you know anyone who has had to live with pain and sorrow that wasn't even their fault and some would put it on them and they've gone through their whole life trying to cover it up and trying to disguise and trying to camouflage it and trying to hide it but deep that on the inside they're carrying a pain a scar a wound that someone put on them do you know anyone who has had to live with pain put on them the Bible says she she she experienced pain when he was born she she burst him in pain it may have been physical pain we don't know maybe in physical pain me maybe it was a rough a rough a rough delivery it was the long delivery I don't know how long she was in in labor pains what's a long time over here what's long I don't know how long anybody I've had a baby in mine here what's the I was in Fiji and they said a late lady was in labor pain for 30 hours we had prayer for her right down we stopped and had forever that lady 30 hours 30 hours all we know is there's something connected to the birth brought pain to her and she put the pain on him maybe it was physical pain maybe it was emotional pain ah the Bible says his mother named him that's significant Bible says it was his mother who named him why as a significant because in the culture of the time the father is the one who would name the child especially a son and so the Bible says that his mother named him in fact there is no mention in the whole story of a father maybe he lived with the pain of a father wound a father who was not there maybe her sorrow maybe her pain was that she maybe maybe she was a single mother and she had to raise this child all by herself and every time she saw the child it reminded her of the child's father who is now gone maybe there was a father womb maybe that was a hole in her soul because nowhere in this text is the father mentioned do you know anyone who has had to live with a father wound do you know anyone who has had to struggle with the absence of a father a couple of months ago a friend of mine was preaching in Brazil in Brazil and he was preaching about the power of God our Father and our Father God our Father God our Father and he said while he was preaching there was a big huge one hundred and hundreds of people and was preaching men began to hold up their ID cards kind of like me in LA in All Saints we call you a driver's license maybe it's your passport and they would be and these men would hold up their their ID cards and he asked them when he says why are these men holding up their cards and he said he said because these cars these ID cards only have one name on them there's no last name because they don't know who their father is and these were grown men raising their cards with one name because they've had to live their whole lives without a father do you know anyone I don't know your culture I don't know your culture but do you know anyone who's had to live with a whole an absence avoid a wound by a father who was not there and the pain that someone put on them the man's name was jay-bez know what's this because jay-bez listen now here we go pain sorrow grief listen cried out to God push past the pain and cried out to God push past the sorrow and cried out to God push past the grief and quiet out to God because he realized that he served a God who is bigger than a past and bigger than a family and bigger than a hurt and bigger than a pain and bigger than a sorrow and he reached out and called out oh god bless me listen to me because if you ever listen if you ever begin to grasp and understand how big your God is it will impact how big your prayers are let me try this out over here they didn't get it over there if you ever begin to understand how big your God is you'll begin to pray big prayers and pray big visions and set big goals and set big targets because you realize that your God is bigger than anything behind you bigger than anything you've gone through bigger than any pain that you suffered bigger than any saw that you suffered and you cry out and you say oh god bless me and so here we go here's our prayer first part of the prayer Oh Lord bless me your turn say it Oh Lord bless me now what's this the Bible says King James says Oh Lord bless me indeed King James says Oh Lord bless me indeed now listen in the original Hebrew Hebrew language the word indeed is not there actually the word blessed is used twice Barack Barack this is used twice and so in English is translated King Jim bless me indeed but the word indeed is not there actually it's a repetition of the words for Brett for bless so it looks reasonable Ord bless me bless me you still didn't get it out try one more time he he says it twice he says O Lord bless me bless me for emphasis he he emphasizes oh lord I need a blessing now now in America when we want to emphasize something emphasize something and my culture emphasized you say big time so he would say Oh Lord bless me big time all you guys help me out all right this section right in here just help me out okay any time you need just jump right in and help me out all right I need all the help I can get so so here's the prayer Oh Lord bless me I like this crowd over here I like it listen listen because he realized how big God is he realized how great God is and I just told you if you understand that you serve a big God you can pray big prayers if you understand a big God you can ask God for Big Time blessings o God bless me I love it I love it I love it so here's the prayer so far Oh Lord bless me big time now watch this next phrase says this and enlarge my territory did you get that one more time Ola bless me bless me then it says and enlarge my territory don't miss that one version says extend my borders when version says give me more territory my version says I need more room here's the point Oh Lord bless me big time because Lord if you decide to bless me with a big time blessing this space that I'm living in is not big enough to receive a big time blessing so in order for you to get me ready for the blessing you've got ready for me you've got to expand my territory expand my territory expand my dreams expand my vision expand my family expand my finances expand my business Oh God if you bless me I need more room I need more territory I need more property and need more land I can't receive it here because the blessing that you're giving is too big to fit into this life that I'm living God says to someone today he's ready to bless you and bless you and bless you and bless you but you're gonna have to learn to live in a bigger life a bigger world because God says where you are right now can not contain all that God wants to do uh let's see you know they fish a lot down here at you guys fish fish was what's a small fish here in my small you guys are small fish was the call it's what do you see it yeah what's the call and Jolie and so I know that were we had those in America what's this what's this an anchovy is a little small fish listen to me you cannot pray a whale sized blessing if you live an anchovy sized life oh you still don't have it and watch him I'm going to fast he says Oh Lord bless me big time what a big time blessing but Lord the life that I'm living is not big enough to receive a big time blessing you cannot ask God to give you a whale sized blessing if you're satisfied living an Enzo V sized life and so Jay Baer says Lord expand my territory I speak this prayer over your life I speak it over your families I speak it over your finances I speak it over your business I speak it over your career I speak it over your talent I speak it over your future that God would expand your territory and your influence would go further than you've ever imagined because God is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that you ask or think you cannot imagine that God wants to bless you because he's a big-time blesser now watch this next phrase says this and then he says and that your hand god I love you word that your hand might be with me what's this he says Lord bless me big time and enlarge my territory to prepare me for the big time blessing was this but that your hand might be with me here it is Lord keep your hand on the blessing was this because I don't want any blessing that does not come from your hand bless me Lord big time but keep your hand on the blessing because I only want the blessing that comes from your hand your hand they light that stuff on the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart into I know that verse he will give you the desires every heart now listen when the Bible says he will give you give you the desires of your heart that does not mean God will give you everything you want it says he will give you the desires of your heart one more time that when you keep God first in your life you like yourself in him and all that ways acknowledge him listen the Bible says he will give you the desires of your heart that does not mean he'll give you everything you ask for it means this when you keep God first in your life then God listen will place his desires in your heart I got all the help I need right here with this brother right here I want you to go on the road with me everywhere I go just you and me me and you only watch this here's the point God will give you the desires that means this he places his desires in your heart so that you only desire to desire the desires he desires you to desire too fast when God places his desires in your heart you only desire to desire the desires he desires you to desire you guys learn fast on this side over here just a good side over here he says Lord keep your hand on the blessing if it's not from your hand I don't want it if it's not from your hand I don't want it does not matter how big the blessing is there's not matter how attractive the blessing is Lord if it does not come from your hand I don't want it keep your hand on the blessing here we are Oh Lord bless me big time and keep your hand on the blessing what's this the next phrase is this but that your hand might be with me that it cause not pain here's what he says not only keep your hand on the blessing somebody sees it keep your hand on me when I receive the blessing that only comes from your hand keep your hand on the blessing but keep your hand on me why would he pray that listen to me when you read scripture read what it says and hear what it does not say one more time when you read scripture read and listen to what it says but listen to what it does not say here's what it does not say it does not say keep evil from me the prayer says keep me from evil one more time he does not pray Lord keep evil from me you would think he would say Lord keep the enemy away no weapon formed against me shall prosper he pitted me away Lord take care of the enemy hold back the enemy that's not what he prays he does not say Lord keep the evil from me he says Lord keep me from the evil why because jay-bez knows jay-bez jay-bez has had to live with pain all of his life he said to live with sorrow all of his life had to leave live with with pain and bitterness and grief all his life and jay-bez knew there was something in him that could automatically turn bitter bitter because of the way he had had to live bitter because the pain that was put on by someone else bitter because of the things that were not his life not not his fault bitter because he lived his life with a hole in his soul no father no daddy and he knew there was something in him that would require God to not only keep his hand on the blessing keep his hand on him and so jay-bez says keep your hand on me God because there's something in me that will ask you for a blessing and after you bless me we'll turn around and sin against you jay-bez says lord I know me keep your hand on me because there's something in me that will ask you for a blessing a big-time blessing and when you bless me if you don't keep your hand on me I'll take the blessing and run and so he says Lord bless me big time enlarge my territory keep your hand on the blessing and keep your hand on me I'm ready to go home here we go I told you at the beginning that jay-bez was from the tribe of Judah and Judah means praise so there's something in Judah that has been passed down to jay-bez Judah means praise when the people of God faced the enemy they said send up Judah first send up praise no matter the obstacle no matter this battle no matter the war that we're facing make sure that you send up praise first and so his man name was jay-bez and he looked back at the favor of God because the Bible says God heard his prayer now when God blesses you you must respond when God blesses you you must react to it and this man's name was jay-bez and he had praise in his veins he had praise in his life and there's a word for praise in Hebrew that means this it means that God shows you something there's an external exposure and when God shows you something this external exposure results in an internal response and the internal response cannot be contained you missed it I'll give it to you one more time this port for praise means there's an extra God shows you and when you see how good god has been to you something deep down on the inside of you rises up and you cannot contain it you're not concerned about the person sitting next to you or in front of you because they weren't there when God brought you through but when you think about how good god has been to you and you look over your life and you see how faithful God has been you can't hold your peace you cannot keep it to yourself when you think about how good god has been that's when praise begins to rise up I dare you right now to look back over your life and see how good god has been to you see the favor of God go through your life and walk through your home and look at your children and look at your finances then he's kept food on your table he's kept a roof over your head and that's the time to give God some praise is there a praise or anywhere in this house can anybody give God praise for the goodness of God o clap your hands all ye people and shout unto the Lord with the shout of triumph I need about 200 people to give God some praise right here clap your hands you've got some glory don't worry about who's sitting around you they weren't there when God brought you through someone throw your head back and give God some praise o father we bless your name in this house we praise you in this house we give you glory in this house we give you honor in this house somebody stand up and give God glory and give God some praise God has been too good to you that's been too faithful to you look all the blessings God has given you walk around your life and see how faithful God has been and when God blesses you praise shall rise up and when praises go up blessings come down somebody help me bless the name of the Living God in this house today Oh God we praise you today Oh God we bless you today Haribo shake it Oh God we praise your name today for all that you have done we praise you for all that you're doing we praise you and we've got enough faith to praise God for what he's going to do before he does it somebody help me bless God somebody praise God on credit praise God now he'll bless me later come on give God glory in this house hallelujah to your name Jesus hallelujah thank you Father everyone standing everyone standing everyone's standing everyone's standing thank you Father thank you the man's name was jay-bez he prayed a big prayer and God heard his prayer and that was praise in his veins praise in his blood and when God blesses you praises rise he was a man of pain but he praised God he was a man of sorrow but he praised God that would have been times when he praised God was tears running down his face but he praised God that would have been times when he had to praise God all by himself but he praised God I want to pray in a moment and then I'm done there's healing in this room there's an awning of God in this room the spirit of healing in this room I want to be obedient the altar workers are gonna come we're gonna have a time of Prayer listen to me there's healing in this room there's healing in this room thank you Father someone's here today and you've had to live with a pain that was put on you what someone else did to you you've lived with the secret of a hidden pray pain there's healing and deliverance in this room tonight God brought you here tonight to bless you big time in a moment I'm gonna ask you to meet me here at this altar the workers are gonna come maybe you here and you've lived with hidden pain like jay-bez someone put pain on you maybe you were a little girl maybe you were a little boy someone put pain on you maybe it was a mother maybe it was a father may was abuse in the family maybe it was an uncle maybe it was a brother they put pain on your life and you've lived with the scar of he didn't pain if that's you I wanna pray for you today we're gonna pray we're gonna pray ask you to commit me at this altar here's the second thing maybe someone is here and you've never been healed of the wound from your father I don't know you I don't know your culture but here's a man that God blessed what he lived with an absentee father his father's not mentioned anywhere in this text maybe there's someone here today there's healing in this room for a father wound that's where I want to start healing for a pain if that's you meet me at this altar healing for a father wound if that's you there's healing in this room thank you Father thank you thank you here's the next thing someone here and you felt as though your life was closing in on you [Music] your dreams your goals your visions are hemmed in every way you try to go you feel like you're blocked past was tell me about this building and this complex and how time after time there was block after block and Henri's after henry and something trying to stop it over and over again maybe there's someone here today and when you look at your life you feel as though you've been living in such a small place JB said Lord enlarge my territory if you fall into any of those categories be the only one personally I'm gonna be obedient and then I'm done the altar workers are gonna come and we're gonna pray we weren't afraid of that you want to come you could be all the way open the top just take a moment and come take a moment in time yes yes yes take a moment it come yes I see us I see you Thank You Father thank you thank you thank you thank you lord thank you thank you thank you Father thank you yes boss yes what yes [Music] there's healing in this room today there's healing in this room to negotiate a live shot there's healing in this room yes there's even human yes there's deliverance in this room today Laurie can angels lauric your names thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you is the healer is the healer he's Jehovah Rapha yes for healing healing healing in this house today your dish [Music] it's a name above pace you are yes yes yes thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you [Music] he's greater than your pain he's greater than your wound it's not yes glory to Jesus thank you Father thank you thank you thank you yes thank you thank you thank you we'll take another minute another moment another minute we'll wait we'll wait wait he's a great guy [Music] waiter than your pay [Music] greater than your sorrow it all [Music] how great Micheline Jesus bless your name bless your name what's your name still where the name above all day the name of the page worry the name of our abandonment by heart it is I [Music] it's the name that is above every name [Music] [Applause] [Music] come see the cheetah Rises arises arises yes yes glory glory to Jesus yes this [Music] we give praise to the Almighty the Great God come on help me praise Him how great [Music] really [Applause] singing children say no see [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] and always see [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] just the name [Music] [Applause] [Music] listen listen here's how we're gonna do they're all the workers are wrong in this crowd all of you all the workers are here Chris what I want to do I'm gonna ask those of you who out out there to pray for those of us who were down here because some of you out there have been down here some of you out there know what we feel those who are down here so I want us to fill this room with prayers for healing and deliverance that a spirit of healing would go forth you pray for us and we cry out to the Living God all over the room mess it all over the room only that's it come on let's pray let's pray let's pray let's pray let's pray yes that's it that's it that's it that's it let's pray let's pray pray pray for healing for healing for healing thank you Father thank you thank you Father thank you [Music] glory glory to Jesus [Music] that's the Desson let the prayers are the righteous ride [Music] healing is going forth in this house Lord heal our feel our bitterness heal the boy heal the hurts Oh God in the name of Jesus Jesus we thank you for a special part thank you thank you thank him thank him thank you they can that's it that's it yes what yes yes yes now just begin to thinking just begin to thank you thank you [Music] [Applause] thank you [Music] thank you thank you father in the name of Jesus we your children give you praise and thanks O God for your name is above every name and so we thank you and we bless you for your healing power heal us of our hurts heal us of our pain heal us of our anger heal us of our bitterness enlarge our territories let our influence go beyond this place let our testimony be a blessing to someone else and we will give you a name all the praise we will give your name all the honor we will give your name all the glory in Jesus name somebody help me bless God 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