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Friday 24 January 2014

Jabez and the first born.

 In growing up, you need to be mindful of your own wish for yourself and the wishes and purposes that your parents and other ancestors may have in mind for you.

There is a man named Jabez("pain") in the bible. His name was translated literally as "Pain."  However, this phenomenon of setting a negative course in a child's life is not that uncommon.Who names their child "pain"? It was a negative prayer and hope of some kind. Do you have a father or mother who continues to manifest negative hopes and prayers?  It may happen by mere involvement in certain clubs or organisations. It may happen by the mere fact that some parents wish to dispense on their children the same anger and negative experiences that they had to endure as if all of the hard work of a parent should not lead to a better outcome for new generations that include their own children.  They want you to know what they went through and the hurts they experienced as if having a joy in the Lord is the ultimate affront to their sense of honor.    

There are some bible verses that address these experiences.  You are not a "pain" and God has invited you to be His child. Read Psalms 82 and Psalms 27.10.  See also 1st John 3:1. 

1 John 3

English Standard Version Anglicised (ESVUK)
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears[a] we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.


Ezekiel 20:26


Verse Concepts

and I pronounced them unclean because of their gifts, in that they caused all their firstborn to pass through the fire so that I might make them desolate, in order that they might know that I am the LORD."'
Ezekiel 20:31




"When you offer your gifts, when you cause your sons to pass through the fire, you are defiling yourselves with all your idols to this day. And shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live," declares the Lord GOD, "I will not be inquired of by you.
Ezekiel 23:37

"For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. Thus they have committed adultery with their idols and even caused their sons, whom they bore to Me, to pass through the fire to them as food.






Ezekiel 20:26
and I pronounced them unclean because of their gifts, in that they caused all their firstborn to pass through the fire so that I might make them desolate, in order that they might know that I am the LORD."'
Ezekiel 20:31
"When you offer your gifts, when you cause your sons to pass through the fire, you are defiling yourselves with all your idols to this day. And shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live," declares the Lord GOD, "I will not be inquired of by you.
Ezekiel 23:37
"For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. Thus they have committed adultery with their idols and even caused their sons, whom they bore to Me, to pass through the fire to them as food.
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