{"id":1524,"date":"2012-04-01T21:52:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T01:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=1524"},"modified":"2012-04-02T06:51:53","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T10:51:53","slug":"1-chronicles-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1524","title":{"rendered":"(1 Chronicles 4) The prayer of Jabez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez, saying, &#8220;I gave birth to him in pain.&#8221; Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, &#8220;Oh, 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.&#8221; And God granted his request.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In recent years, the prayer of Jabez has become quite popular. Books have been written about it.\u00a0 The prayer itself has been turned into a formula for success.\u00a0 Prayers aren&#8217;t formulas.\u00a0 They aren&#8217;t magic words. They are sincere expressions of a heart in sincere, continuous communication with God.\u00a0 Jabez&#8217; prayer must have been that.\u00a0 He was, we are told, more honorable than his brothers, and his prayer was answered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez, saying, &#8220;I gave birth to him in pain.&#8221; Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, &#8220;Oh, 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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1524\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(1 Chronicles 4) The prayer of Jabez&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1524"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1528,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions\/1528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}