"And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying: Oh, that You would bless me indeed..." ~I Chron 4:10~

Jabez was focused. He knew he needed to be blessed, and he knew the only one that could change his circumstances was God Almighty. He got desperate. He cried out, "OH, that You would bless me"....and not just bless me, bless me "indeed". I think about The Little Rascals saying, "And How!"...Many of us let satan beat us down with all our past failures and tell us we are unworthy to approach a Holy God and ask for His richest blessings. But friend, we serve a God of great forgiveness, casting my sins and yours into the sea of forgetfulness, as far as the east is from the west when we come to Him with a repentant heart. And HE WANTS to bless us...He is waiting for us to trust Him enough to ask. We are so human, we look everywhere else to meet the needs in our life, counselors, pills, money, jobs, people, bad habits, hobbies...we have to become like Jabez, and realize that only God can supply.