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Ordinary Or Extraordinary

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Want to teach your people to pray?  Ordinary to Extraordinary is a sermon that uses Jabez's prayer as a model for life-changing prayer.  Teach your congregation how to be intimate with Christ so that they can be victorious as they pray!

 

From Ordinary to Extraordinary:

 

"If you would like to learn how to become a speed reader, begin reading the first several chapters of I Chronicles, because it reads like a Hebrew telephone directory. Jabez's name is listed with more than 500 other names in these first few chapters.

"As you are reading these first several chapters it is like driving on the Autobahn. You can go as fast as you want to go - it doesn't take long. All of a sudden on this interstate highway of names, you hit a speed breaker in verse 9.
"Jabez was more honorable than his brothers."
(I Chronicles 4:9, NASB)

"Immediately we were told there was something different about Jabez. He was not one of God's favorites, because God doesn't have any favorites, but he was one of God's intimates. Amazingly, Jabez is remembered, not for what he did, but for what he prayed.

"Now you wouldn't have thought that Jabez would have amounted to very much. His name literally means, "he who gives pain." Come to think of it, I've known more than a few Jabez's in my own life. How would you like to know from the time you were born that your name means to be a pain in the rear?

"That name tells us something about this man. He evidently came from a very hard background. He wasn't born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He wasn't educated at a fine university. He had no access to a lot of money, but he was still able to go from the ordinary to the extraordinary because of the three things we learn about him in this prayer. What took him to the top can take you to the top as well."

 

Dr. Merritt's message are available on CD at Touching Lives.

 

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Keywords: intimate, prayer, pray, blessings, blessed, prayer of jabez

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