Whats The Truth About The Prayer of Jabez–Breaking Through To The Blessed Life?
A Mixed Review of Commendation and Concern by Cky J. Carrigan, Ph.D., www.ontruth.com (June 2001) And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, “Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me and that You would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!” So God granted him what he requested. (1Chron. 4:10 NKJV) TPOJ by Bruce Wilkinson, founding director of Walk Thru the Bible Ministries, is a masterful little book that is pregnant with potential to point the reader to the blessed life in Christ through prayer. It also has potential, however, to lead the reader astray. To the extent it motivates the reader to attempt great things for God and expect great things from Him TPOJ points toward the blessed life in Christ. But, to the extent Wilkinson makes more absolute promises than God does, hedges on the sovereignty of God, misdirects worship, or motivates the reader to use Jabez’ Prayer as something of a “Christian Mantra” in the context o
