{"id":2586,"date":"2007-08-12T17:04:54","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T00:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/spurgeon\/?p=170"},"modified":"2007-08-12T17:04:54","modified_gmt":"2007-08-13T00:04:54","slug":"the-prayer-of-jabez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2007\/08\/12\/the-prayer-of-jabez\/","title":{"rendered":"The Prayer of Jabez"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following excerpt is from “The Prayer of Jabez,” a semon preached by Spurgeon sometime before 1871?and published during a long absence caused by Spurgeon’s illness that year.<\/p>\n

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Oh that thou, the God of Israel, the covenant God, would bless me indeed!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The very pith of the prayer seems to lie in that word, “indeed.”<\/p>\n

There are many varieties of blessing. Some are blessings only in name: they gratify our wishes for a moment, but permanently disappoint our expectations. They charm the eye, but pall on the taste.<\/p>\n

Others are mere temporary blessings: they perish with the using. Though for awhile they regale the senses, they cannot satisfy the higher cravings of the soul. But, “Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed!”<\/p>\n

I know whom God blesseth shall be blessed. The thing good in itself is bestowed with the good-will of the giver, and shall be productive of so much good fortune to the recipient that it may well be esteemed as a blessing “indeed,” for there is nothing comparable to it.<\/p>\n

Let the grace of God prompt it, let the choice of God appoint it, let the bounty of God confer it, and then the endowment shall be something godlike indeed; something worthy of the lips that pronounce the benediction, and verily to be craved by every one who seeks honor that is substantial and enduring. “Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed!” Think it over, and you will see that there is a depth of meaning in the expression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The following excerpt is from “The Prayer of Jabez,” a semon preached by Spurgeon sometime before 1871?and published during a long absence caused by Spurgeon’s illness that year.
\nOh that thou, the God of Israel, the covenant God, would bless me indeed!
\n The very pith of the prayer seems to lie in that word, “indeed.”
\nThere are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}