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The Prayer of Jabez: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life
by Bruce H. Wilkinson
This book makes the classic mistake of assuming that God's favor for someone can be increased by that person's deeds. All that the Christian has is by none of their own doing, and God has promised that with his greatest blessing (Christ himself) everything will be added to the believer along with him, as a gracious act of a loving Father.
While it is true that we often have not because we ask not, that does not mean that 1) God's blessings imply greater favor with God or that 2) those blessings can be gotten by vainly repeating some prayer that some guy said once with indeterminate results.
Wilkinson is so often guilty of twisting Biblical texts out of their intended contexts and meanings and into applications that were never intended. I could never recommend this book, or anything else I've read by Wilkinson, to anyone. Read with immense caution.
While it is true that we often have not because we ask not, that does not mean that 1) God's blessings imply greater favor with God or that 2) those blessings can be gotten by vainly repeating some prayer that some guy said once with indeterminate results.
Wilkinson is so often guilty of twisting Biblical texts out of their intended contexts and meanings and into applications that were never intended. I could never recommend this book, or anything else I've read by Wilkinson, to anyone. Read with immense caution.