The name Jabez<\/i> means \u2018pain and trouble\u2019. Can you imagine walking into a room and hearing someone say, \u2018Here comes trouble,\u2019 or someone describing you as \u2018a pain\u2019? And what\u2019s more, his mother labelled Jabez that way the day he was born because she \u2018gave birth to him in pain.\u2019<\/i> (1 Chronicles 4:9 NIV) <\/p>\n
But Jabez refused to let that name define him. Instead of looking back at his past and listening to his critics, he turned to God and prayed: \u2018\u201cOh, that You would bless me indeed and enlarge my border, and that Your hand might be with me, and that You would keep me from harm, that it might not pain me!\u201d And God granted him what he requested.\u2019<\/i> (1 Chronicles 4:10 NASB) <\/p>\n
The label on the outside of a bottle tells you what\u2019s on the inside. And when you let others label you, invariably they make your world too small. And once you accept the label they place on you, you start to believe that\u2019s who you are and that you\u2019ll never amount to anything more than that. No, only God can tell you who you are! So do what Jabez did\u2014go directly to the source: God. He created you. He redeemed you. He calls you. He equips you. He empowers you. He rewards you.<\/p>\n
So when people try to limit you by putting labels on you, God steps in and says, \u2018Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine.\u2019<\/i> (Isaiah 43:1 NKJV) The truth is that God loves and accepts you, and His approval trumps everybody else\u2019s disapproval!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The name Jabez means \u2018pain and trouble\u2019. Can you imagine walking into a room and hearing someone say, \u2018Here comes trouble,\u2019 or someone describing you as \u2018a pain\u2019? And what\u2019s more, his mother labelled Jabez that way the day he was born because she \u2018gave birth to him in pain.\u2019 (1 Chronicles 4:9 NIV) But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}