I have to encourage myself sometimes because life gets hard. I’ve prayed this for my family and then for my husband in years past. Now I’m going to pray it for myself:
1 Chronicles 4
9 Jabez was more honorable than his brothers.
His mother had named him Jabez, saying, “I gave birth to him in pain.”
10 Jabez cried out to the God of Israel,
“Oh, that you would bless me
and enlarge my territory!
Let your hand be with me,
and keep me from harm
so that I will be free from pain.”
And God granted his request.
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