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Summary: It's the Principle not the Power
Review: .....This book is life changing for anyone who has read it and truly wants to put it's principles into practice in their life. I believe this book speaks about us as God's children asking not for his material "blessings" but it teaches you how to ask God for everything that He has for you. Lord, give me your desires for me.... Who wouldn't want to have all that God wanted for them?....spiritually, physically, mentally......so on.....This book teaches the reader about a man who was labeled as a "nobody" who cried out to God...to change him and not to let that curse rest on his life. God granted his request! God longs for us to cry out to him and ask us for his blessing......just as our earthly fathers want to give us everything we need and want, how much more does our Heavenly Father want to pour out his blessings on our lives? The key is this is not to bring glory to ourselves but to further his kingdom....Amen!
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Summary: NEGATIVE
Review: I enjoyed reading this book and can get some good from it, but taking all into consideration, I must give it a thumbs down. The book's theme seems to be that God will honor this prayer above a prayer that we utter from our own heart. That is not consistent with Jesus's teachings. When I think back to what Jesus tried to bring to earth, he led his ministry away from the ceremonial and the ritual and towards an honest and personal relationship with God.There is a message that this prayer can be used as some kind of lucky rabbit's foot to receive a bigger share of God's blessings. Yes, the Prayer of Jabez is in the Bible, but I believe it is there for us to learn from the character of Jabez and to study Jabez's motives and his relationship with God. To imply that repeating this prayer daily will bring us success is no more scriptural than saying that building an ark will bring a flood. Yes, I should focus more each and every day on what more I can do for God. However my focus should not be on what is in it for me.
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Summary: Forcing God to do your will
Review: Christianity today is after power and self fulfillment and to corner that market we have a book here that offers us a magical incantation in which all you have to do is to repeat this prayer over and over and SHAZAM.....God blesses you.Does this sound like vain repetitions which many think that they will be what it takes to get from God what they want. HMMMMM. Jesus had no place to lay his head, Paul was a prisoner in a dungeon who paid with his life, early Christians were killed in the lions den. To bad they didnt pray this prayer.They could have had health and wealth and all the good stuff that God will surely bless us with!
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Summary: The Most Powerful Little Book I've Ever Read
Review: I have been an excited, believing, on fire Christian for 30 years. This little book has given me more direction, joy, power and know-how than anything I've read except the Bible. Wilkerson takes you through a journey that supercedes space and time, because what happens, DAILY, is so supernatural, yet natural, that you wake up with a feeling, "what is my adventure going to be today?" I start my morning by asking God to "make me an appointment" AFTER I have asked for His blessings, of course. Then, I look for people to help, to encourage. I email people boldly with hope and joy. It has aided my ability to share the Lord, with which everyone often have trouble. It is soooooooooo simple. Buy a bunch of copies. You will be giving them away like hot cakes. And, the joy outweighs the small expense. The blessing connections are awesome. And, the Devotional is a must. It even explains further. Wow! God keeps His promise to bless.
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Summary: THE PRAYER OF JABEZ: One Reader's Opinion
Review: Relying on a perversion of the Christian gospel message, Dr. Wilkinson seeks to establish that greed, rationalized as a prayer for enlargement of territory, a la Jabez, is perfectly okay. The book is selling, I believe, because it appeals to new age selfishness, a sense that the world revolves around ME. The Christian message is that our worlds revolve around service to others. It is this love and unselfishness which creates contentment in the human being and, if we believe in Jesus Christ, is the greatest commandment in service to God. The books has redeeming virtues, but the nagging question is "Why this Scripture? Why this insignificant biblical character?" I'll take the Beatitudes. I'll even take the prayer of St. Francis: "Make me an instrument of Thy peace....." But the prayer of Jabez is hardly the one I would choose to repeat daily for decades, as Dr. Wilkinson claims to have done. There has to be a reason. I think it is a revival and justification of the old right-wing "prosperity gospel," now in disrepute among main-line Christians. That world-view confused ancient Hebrew theology with Christian theology, just as Dr. Wilkinson does here, in falling at the feet of the self-centered Jabez, whose confidence swells with the notion that he has God in his pocket to use as needed to advance his purposes. Call me old-fashioned; I believe our prayers should be for others and that God will bless the "poor in spirit." Rev. Dr. Bob McAuley
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Summary: A Blessing!
Review: This was an easy reading book. Wilkinson used a lot of illustrations to break down the four parts of the verse. I would highly recommend this book for those who want to increase in their prayer life and reep blessing in return. I can testify that it works. God wants to give His people more. This is just one of many prayers found in the Word that God has given us to pray. Why else would it be in there? If you want to experience God and His rich blessings, read the The Prayer of Jabez and pray it.
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Summary: Most Excellent Training Book
Review: Unlike Alamosa, CO, I think this is excellent training material for the *mature* Christian. These are the end-times and anyone who is a serious student of eschatology can tell you that we're well along on the timeline. As such, there are new moves of God forthcoming - some even have begun. The prayer of Jabez is a challenge because the mature Christian knows that the increase spoken of brings with it increased responsibility as well. Not everyone is up to such a challenge. Indeed, some have been deceived into believing that they are what they really aren't.. and they won't even "get it". Thus, the view of the prayer being selfish. There is nothing less selfish than one who's willing to shoulder the increased responsibility - and the accompanying persecutions :-) in order to become a willing conduit for the Lord's work. D!
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Summary: True Christians will cringe...
Review: The "Prayer of Jabez" is the most perverted, twisted formula-book to come out of the self-centered health & wealth sect yet. This is the complete opposite of the self-denial we are called to in the Sermon on the Mount. Jabez devotees have put their faith in worldly treasure and as Jesus said, "they have their reward". But it's in the Bible, they say. Or, this is "for God". Satan twisted scripture too. This is just another abomination that promises to make God work for you. Wake up. God is never the object of man's designs or purposes. God is never the object of man's measure. God is the only subject, the great I AM - and we, unprofitable servants. Better to be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of the wicked.
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Summary: The Devine Prayer
Review: This is a modern day version of the our father who art in heaven for people of every single catugary like the unix language of the computer today you can use three simple phrases to control endless ellaberate functions of the most powerful IBM computer and is a great blessing and simple for me because these three key words makes it just within the limited margins of my attention span now that I have an easier version of " how great thou art"and the our father that takes me nearly one our to recite......
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Summary: Knock and the Door Shall Be Open Unto You
Review: What a wonderful little book to read. Considering that I am not an advent reader, this book held my attention and gave me peace and understanding of our Lord's desires for us. I learn that it is alright to ask the Lord for what you want. You can be direct with your requests. The prayer for financial blessings does work!!!
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