SERIES
1 Chronicles 4:10 – And God granted the request of Jabez
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DAILY READINGS
7 Day Path
Read in order. Return daily. Keep your rhythm.
DAY 1
1 Chronicles 4:10
And God granted the request of Jabez
The Prayer at Rest
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DAY 2
1 Chronicles 4:10
And God granted the request of Jabez
Born From Pain
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DAY 3
1 Chronicles 4:10
And God granted the request of Jabez
Bless Me Indeed
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DAY 4
1 Chronicles 4:10
And God granted the request of Jabez
The God Who Grants
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DAY 5
1 Chronicles 4:10
And God granted the request of Jabez
Enlarge My Borders
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DAY 6
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And God granted the request of Jabez
Kept
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DAY 7
1 Chronicles 4:10
And God granted the request of Jabez
The Week the Ledger Stopped
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ABOUT THIS SERIES
Two verses interrupt nine chapters of names. A man called Sorrow asks the God of Israel for everything his name denied him — and the ledger stops to record the answer. A 7-day deep dive into 1 Chronicles 4:9-10, written for a season when long-promised things are finally arriving.
You prayed through the lean years. Now the ground is steadying — the stable work, the settled home, the quiet after years of noise — and a new set of questions moves in. Am I allowed to want this much? Why did this prayer get answered when others didn’t? What if I lose it? An obscure man in Judah’s genealogy, named after his mother’s pain, prayed the boldest small prayer in Scripture and was granted it. His four petitions carry everything the season of arriving promises requires.
SCRIPTURE ANCHOR
1 Chronicles 4:10 – And God granted the request of Jabez
VOICES IN THIS SERIES
Jabez
THE MAN HIMSELF
“Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed! (1 Chronicles 4:10, KJV)”
DAY 2
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
A VOICE FROM THE STORY
“The very pith of the prayer seems to lie in that word ‘indeed.’ There are many varieties of blessing. Some are blessings only in name.”
DAY 3
Monica of Thagaste
A VOICE FROM THE STORY
“Thou… regardest not what she then asked, that Thou mightest make me what she ever asked. — Augustine, of God’s answer to her”
DAY 4
The Chronicler
A VOICE FROM THE STORY
“For everything comes from You, and from Your own hand we have given to You. (1 Chronicles 29:14, from David’s prayer, preserved by the Chronicler)”
DAY 5
John Gibson Paton
A VOICE FROM THE STORY
“But the Invisible One restrained them.”
DAY 6