Jabez and China

According to the Lark News, The Prayer of Jabez has caused great harm to the house church in China. "Chinese Christians used to sacrifice everything for Christ. Now they only want God to bless them, says one Chinese Elder."

OK, the story is pure satire, it's fake, (that's why it's called Lark News), but I think it makes a point that is real.

First there was The Prayer of Jabez, then all the Jabez merchandise, then Beyond Jabez. So, staying with this mood, here is my list of other soon to be released Jabez Books:

• 40 Days of Jabez
• Jabez for Women and you thought I was kidding!
• Jabez for Men
• Jabez for Anything Alive really - I'm not making this stuff up.
• The 5 Love Languages of Jabez
• The Jabez Code
• Jabez your way to a MILLION dollars
• Jabez for Dummies
• The Jabez Diet
• Blue Like Jabez
• Good to Great to Jabez
• Jabez and other J names in the Bible
• Developing the Jabez within you
• Hairy Jabez and the Kidney Stone (Book 1)
• Hairy Jabez and the Chamber of 4 verses (Book 2)
• Hairy Jabez and the Prison Years (Book 3)
• Hairy Jabez and the Goblet of Fire and Brimstone (Book 4)
• Hairy Jabez and the Flight to Phoenix
• Hairy Jabez and The Half-blood Jedi (Book 6)

And coming soon... The Left Behind Jabez series!

Comments

[Luke]

I actually had an interesting thought about Jabez the other day. I was at a Sunday morning service of a church I used to attend and as their custom they always had some sort of financial verse read before their offering. They had everyone stand up and read the "jabez" verse aloud.

As they did this i had an interesting thought... "Jabez only prayed that prayer once in the bible".

i think it's easy to get consumed by one aspect of God. I believe highly in the jabez prayer. i know sometimes God leads me in prayers asking for blessing. But just the same led me in prayers asking for a change of heart, prayers for others to be blessed, etc etc.

Maybe the real question is: God, what would you like me to pray about today?

-Lukr