Prayer of Jabez by Charles H. Spurgeon

Prayer Books

The Prayer of Jabez reveals how to make praying the Jabez prayer a lifetime habit. Readers will broaden their understanding of the four components of the Jabez prayer (“bless me; enlarge my borders; keep Your hand upon me; keep me from evil”) by investigating key scriptural passages and learning how to apply them to their lives. And Jabez was more honorable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying Because I bare him with sorrow. And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.