Are you willing to be disappointed? Humanly speaking that is. Would you allow yourself to become that vulnerable to ask for Him to do big things even if they don’t happen? He says to ask—so why don’t we? Why are we afraid to ask for His blessing? I always think of Jabez. I remember reading the book when I was younger. It intrigued me so much. I started the challenge the presented in the book. The challenge was to pray Jabez’s prayer for thirty days. It was amazing, I started doing it and God started blessing. Now, it was ‘small’ things that happened but to my little mind it was living and breathing miracles! Like the day my cat came back home after I thought it had been lost, it was big stuff to me.
But why are people so afraid to ask? I know so many want to stay away from the ‘name it claim it’ and ‘prosperity gospel’ but what is wrong with asking? If we are to be grounded in faith then why not?! ‘Faith is the assurance of things hoped for’, right? That is what my Bible says at least.
1 Chronicles 4:9-10
9And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.
10And 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.
Ask, seek, knock.
Don’t be afraid. Try it.
