[Bookwoman]

I’m praying for you in your endeavors!

[hope_dies_last]

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
I have not posted in a while, but yesterday I ran into several mind-blowing verses... no doubt God is working in my present drought and wilderness journey.

God takes note when we speak of these things and invoke His name into our conversations... and He records them in the Book of Remembrance!!!!

Please note what the following scripture is saying:

Malachi 3:16-18:

“Then those who feared the Lord spoke to one another,
And the Lord listened and heard them;
So a book of remembrance was written before Him
For those who fear the Lord
And who meditate on His name.
“They shall be Mine,” says the Lord of hosts,
“On the day that I make them My jewels.
And I will spare them
As a man spares his own son who serves him.”
Then you shall again discern
Between the righteous and the wicked,
Between one who serves God
And one who does not serve Him.”

Powerful.

[HarleyD]

It's not quite that simple. Just remember that Jabez was righteous before God in knowing the law and living by it:

1Ch 4:9 Jabez was more honorable than his brothers; and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, "Because I bore him in pain."

Translation:

The Targum adds,"and wiser in the law than his brethren;''or he might be a man of great wealth and riches, or of great strength and courage, all which make a man honourable; or he may be so called, because a praying man, as follows, a man of devotion and religion, a man of God,

I doubt that I'll ever achieve the status of a Abraham, Moses, or Jabez.