There is no doubt that all of us are going through some of the most stressful times of our lives. You also need to know that you are not alone. There are countless examples in the Bible of how God ...

Two years ago, not many people knew of the obscure Bible character named Jabez. His life story included only three sentences, tucked into the biblical genealogies of the Old Testament - a passage not ...

Q: I keep hearing about the best-selling book “Prayer of Jabez.” Who is Jabez and what is his prayer? — A.F., Hampton A: “The Prayer of Jabez” (pronounced JAY-bez) has sold over 6 million copies and ...

Answer: Not much! We can only know what the Bible tells us in two passages. Jabez is listed in 1 Chronicles 2:55 as the name of a town where some scribes lived, possibly near Bethlehem. The other ...

“You feel kind of sorry for all the other prayers,” says a friend on the phone. “They have the cultural life expectancy of doo-wop music once this thing gets rolling.” We are discussing the Prayer of ...

As we have recently been reminded by Bruce Wilkinson’s best-selling book on the subject, Jabez—a man mentioned only once in the Bible—prayed for God to “enlarge his territory,” and God granted his ...

And I left that auditorium saying to myself, oh, boy, whatever was the secret of Jabez, I wanted to find out what it was. And I went right to the library, didn't go to the next class, and got a book ...

For 2,400 years, nobody paid much attention to an obscure Bible character named Jabez. His life story -- all three sentences of it -- was buried in one of the dullest sections of the Old Testament.

For the sizable segment of Christians who see evangelism as their primary religious duty, the Jabez books are motivational literature par excellence: Wilkinson's The Prayer of Jabez has sold over six ...