{"id":1411,"date":"2020-02-19T10:31:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T10:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lng.853.mytemp.website\/?p=1411"},"modified":"2020-03-03T12:36:36","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T12:36:36","slug":"prayer-of-jabez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/?p=1411","title":{"rendered":"Prayer of Jabez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Just yesterday I was bemoaning having to read the genealogies found at the beginning of 1st Chronicles. Today&#8217;s reading in chapter 4 brought me the Prayer of Jabez.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: -apple-system, HelveticaNeue; font-size: 16.013999938964844px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\">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, saying, &#8220;Oh that you would bless me indeed and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from the evil one.&#8221; And God granted his request.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Remember<span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: -apple-system, HelveticaNeue; font-size: 16.014px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; caret-color: #000000; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"> a few years back when <\/span>studying<span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: -apple-system, HelveticaNeue; font-size: 16.014px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; caret-color: #000000; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"> this prayer was a fad? I never read the book; I <\/span>assumed<span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: -apple-system, HelveticaNeue; font-size: 16.014px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; caret-color: #000000; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"> if it was <\/span>getting that much attention<span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: -apple-system, HelveticaNeue; font-size: 16.014px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; caret-color: #000000; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"> it was <\/span>probably<span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: -apple-system, HelveticaNeue; font-size: 16.014px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; caret-color: #000000; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"> fluff<\/span>.<span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: -apple-system, HelveticaNeue; font-size: 16.014px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; caret-color: #000000; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"> I <\/span>don&#8217;t<span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: -apple-system, HelveticaNeue; font-size: 16.014px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; caret-color: #000000; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"> think it was a <\/span>particularly long<span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: -apple-system, HelveticaNeue; font-size: 16.014px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; caret-color: #000000; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"> book<\/span>. Perhaps<span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: -apple-system, HelveticaNeue; font-size: 16.014px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; caret-color: #000000; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"> I should <\/span>read<span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: -apple-system, HelveticaNeue; font-size: 16.014px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; caret-color: #000000; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"> it<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just yesterday I was bemoaning having to read the genealogies found at the beginning of 1st Chronicles. Today&#8217;s reading in chapter 4 brought me the Prayer of Jabez. 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 &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/?p=1411\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,43],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-brhythm","4":"post-1411","6":"format-standard","7":"category-christianity","8":"category-sf100"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1411"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1433,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions\/1433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}