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DAY 15
Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, “Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my terri-
tory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain.”
An God granted his request. -1 Chron. 4:10 NIV
The secret to prolonged productivity ...
If one of your new year’s resolutions is to be more productive in some area of your life, I
have a secret: making prayer a daily habit releases the enabling that makes hard tasks
easy.
It is so easy to make prayer an exercise for prayer warriors but this is a mistake. You
don’t have to be the praying mother of the church to diligently exercise the power of
prayer in your life. God always meets us where we are in our walk with Him. The
goal is not someone else’s prayer life. The goal is go where God takes us in your own
prayer life. While I admire the discipline of Hannah, Jabez prayed a simple prayer and
God answered and blessed him.
Don’t fear the journey of a closer relationship with God. Don’t let those who have
“hijacked spirituality” - that is, made it a mystical, spooky thing - deter you from a deeper
relationship with God. Spirituality is simply an acknowledgment that my life is better
with God involved with the affairs of life.
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