📖 Scripture: 1 Chronicles 4:9–10 (NLT): 9 There was a man named Jabez who was more honorable than any of his brothers. His mother named him Jabez because his birth had been so painful. 10 He was the one who prayed to the God of Israel, “Oh, that you would bless me and expand my territory! Please be with me in all that I do, and keep me from all trouble and pain!” And God granted him his request.

🎯 Focus Statement: Bold Prayer / Expectancy: What if the problem isn’t that we don’t know how to pray, but that we sometimes limit our prayers to what we can already see or accomplish ourselves? Bold prayer trusts that God can do more in us and through us than we can imagine.

👉 Call to Action: Pray one prayer that feels bigger than what you can accomplish on your own. Ask God to enlarge your capacity, courage, compassion, influence, or availability for what God wants to do.

 

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