Just for Women. Listen to Mrs. Waite speak from her heart to your need. Pause a moment and care. Just for Women is an unusual broadcast for women in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation. Yvonne Waite deals biblically with the many issues facing women today. The Bible tells the older women to speak the things which become sound doctrine and teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed. Listen now to Mrs. Waite speaking just for women. And Jabez was more honorable than his brethren. And his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bear him in sorrow. And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, O that thou wouldst bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast. and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me. And God granted him that which he requested." That's 1 Chronicles 4, 9-10. Now if you are in the know and evangelical circles, you know that Jabez has become an outstanding person in the eyes of many people. This is because a man by the name of Bruce Wilkinson has promoted J-Bez higher than I think J-Bez would really like to be. If we could bring J-Bez back to earth, for he died years ago because he was one of the people mentioned in 1 Chronicles, he would say, what is all this fuss about me and my prayer? I'm just an ordinary man that God blessed. I'm just an ordinary man that my mother loved and gave me a special name even though I brought her much pain in the delivery. I'm just an ordinary person that my brothers and sisters liked and people around me liked. Just like other people. And I just prayed a few things to God and I had no idea I'd become so public. Of course God liked Jabe as special, especially his prayer. He liked many things about Jabez because he mentioned him in these two verses in the Bible. And you and I can't deny that he was mentioned. Yes, he was. And I'm not denying that this isn't a good thing to know about Jabez. I've been a born again Christian for at least 64 years. I was saved when I was 9 or 10 years old. I found something written down where my mother wrote down when I was 10. I'd always said I was about 9, but then I never wrote it down. But I know I was saved. I remember the day that I was saved and I remember The time I went to church and when the pastor asked if anybody wanted to confess Christ publicly I raised my hand. In those days we didn't walk down the aisle a lot. And I raised my hand and I let everybody know that I belonged to Jesus. That I was a sinner saved by grace even though I was a little girl. And I really was not a bad little girl like some little girls. But I needed a Savior. So I have read my Bible so many times that I can't remember them. And whenever I read in First Chronicles, I read my Bible every year for many, many years and sometimes more. Sometimes certain passages more. I graduated from Bible school and we studied all this. So I'm acquainted with Jabez. So when I read Jabez's prayer, I read it every year. He called upon God. He was more honorable than his brethren. His mother called his name Jabez because he was quite a problem being born. Well, she was quite a baby. You see, nobody is born that easily. There is pain in childbirth for most women. So sometimes I've heard women really complain and cry about the childbirth pain. And it's no picnic. I never had a shot to numb the bottom part of me, the epidural or whatever you call them. I bore the pain of my children. And it really doesn't last that long when you think of your life. And the hardest part is when the shoulders come out. But we're not talking about that necessarily, except some women really carry on about having a baby. Maybe Mrs. Jabez, well she wasn't Mrs. Jabez, Jabez's mother, maybe she was one of those baby women, I don't know, or maybe he was a very difficult birth. Today you know if it's real, real difficult they do a cesarean. I know I have one grandchild that was from a cesarean and I don't think the others were. But anyhow that doesn't matter. My sister whom I told you about who was born with a birth injury because of a bad birth and if anybody wanted to cry my mother could have. But I don't ever remember my mother carrying on about having a baby even though her baby was retarded. She, Beverly, should have been a Caesarian birth, really. But anyhow, we're not talking about that either. And here it is in the Bible. Because I bore him in sorrow, I named him Jabez. Jabez called on God, the God of Israel. That's the true God. He wasn't an idol worshiper. Perhaps that's one of the reasons he's in here. There's a whole list of names and suddenly we get real informed on Jabez. And I'm glad to be informed on him, aren't you? And he says, oh that thou wouldst bless me indeed and enlarge my coasts. He wants God to bless him. Maybe he was injured from childbirth. I don't know. Maybe he was selfish. I don't know. He wanted larger coasts. He wanted more territory. He wanted more. Is that good or is that bad? Sometimes it's good. Sometimes it's bad. And he still prayed to God that thy hand might be with me. He wanted God's hand with him. Well, God's hand is with all those that believe on him. Yes. He really didn't have to pray that, you know, because our times are in his hand, his hand, our times are in it. We don't really have to pray, oh, that my times will be in your hand. We don't have to really pray that their hand will be with me. We just have to recognize that his hand is with us if we know Jesus Christ is our Savior. And that thou wouldest keep me from evil. That's a good prayer, isn't it? Keep from evil. Deliver me from evil, as the Lord's Prayer says. That it may not grieve me. Now that's one of the most touching parts of this prayer. He wanted to stay away from evil. He wanted God to keep him from evil. Jay is this. This is his desire. so that he would not be grieved oh for you who fall into evil who do not pray to be kept from evil you who lead evil lives how grieved your soul must be until your conscience becomes so seared that you have no grief no little taint that you are doing wrong and God granted him that which he requested so Whether we think Jabez was a man of prayer or not, we know he was a man of one prayer. And whether we think he was special with God's hand on him, we don't really know. That was his prayer. But we know that God gave him the answer to his prayers. Now I'm going to be talking about this prayer off and on for several broadcasts. The way I'm going, it'll probably be for all of the ones that I make. You know, I make eight broadcasts at one time. and I've been a little leery about doing this. I feel burdened that I have to talk about the prayer of Jabez to you because it's such a popular thing. I first became aware of this prayer from the BDM letter. That's the publication of Biblical Discernment Ministries. Mr. Rick Micell is the one who puts this together and he does it out of the love of his heart for the truth. He doesn't even have a tax deductible number. He's a layman whom God grabbed a hold of and changed. Has God grabbed a hold of you and changed? I guess we could say Rick Micell is a JVES. Anyone whom God grabs a hold of and changes is a J-Best. You, I, our husband, our mother, our friends. So I got this letter. It's the spring. It's volume 10, number one, spring 2001. And I usually read these sheets that come in. We get a lot of these quote-unquote religious sheets. And they come in, you know, like the Sword of the Lord, that paper, we get different ones. I'm not going to bother to tell you what they are. We even sent out a few ourselves. We just published the Dean Burgon News for the Dean Burgon Society. My husband, Pastor DA Wade, and they're having their This year's meeting in Ramsey, New Jersey at a church there, I see the name of it here someplace, Independent Baptist Church in Ramsey, New Jersey and if you're interested that's the church that's going to host the Dean Burgon Society and the Dean Burgon Society has one thing that they talk about and that's about the text behind the King James Bible and the King James Bible. Their goal is traditional text, the defense of traditional Bible text. Well that was a little commercial thrown in that had nothing to do with anything but we get this VDM letter and I read this to you Jada's that's the first bold print to you Jada's What in the world does that mean? I knew about J-Biz, but do I J-Biz? A closer look at Bruce Wilkinson's books, The Prayer of J-Biz. Now, who is Bruce Wilkinson? I'm almost out of time, and I'll try to tell you. Bruce Jacobson. Rather, Bruce Wilkinson. I'm getting you mixed up with the name J-Biz. He is the president and founder of Atlanta-based Walk Through the Bible Ministries. He was a guest on Jim Dobson's Focus on the Family radio program in early March, referring to Wilkinson's latest book, The Prayer of Jada. Referring to that, Dobson claimed that he had sold one million copies in February 2000 alone. Now maybe you're one of the ones that has bought one of the one million copies in February and here it is when I'm making this broadcast it's June and I will confess to you I went to the bookstore and I bought a copy so that I'd know what I was talking about because I always remember when I talked about Harry Potter somebody that I met said Have you ever read Harry Potter? I said no. He said how can you talk about something you haven't read? So I have this little book and I'm not necessarily asking you to go get it in fact I'm not asking you to go get it but anyhow I have it. The books let's see it has an internet website claims that there are four million copies of the book in print. It is a USA Today, New York Times top 10 bestseller and is embraced by evangelicals, Catholics, fundamentalist and even non-christians. Even non-christians. All these different denominations, all these different groups, they are all embracing this one book. So you start to wonder right away. On Dobson's program, Wilkinson claimed that two weeks of praying the prayer of Jabez would change your life. After hearing the radio program devoted to the book and after reading the book, this author has serious reservations about Wilkinson's claims. And that's why I got the book. And that's why I'm talking to you. Do you know Jesus Christ is your Savior? I'm under his care. Are you? You have been listening to Just for Women with Yvonne Waite, sponsored by the Bible for Today Baptist Church in Collingswood, New Jersey. We invite you to visit our church Sundays 10 a.m. and 1 30 p.m. and Thursdays at 8 p.m. If you need more information about our church, our broadcast, or our Savior, please call us toll-free, 1-800-JOHN-109. The organist and pianist is Mr. Dick Carroll. Your announcer has been Dr. D. A. Waite, pastor of the Bible for a Day Baptist Church. We invite all you ladies to join us for our next broadcast, heard twice weekly over this same station, and hear Yvonne Waite and Just for Women. The End Just for Women. Listen to Mrs. Waite speak from her heart to your need. Pause a moment and care. Just for Women is an unusual broadcast for women in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation. Yvonne Waite deals biblically with the many issues facing women today. The Bible tells the older women to speak the things which become sound doctrine, and teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed. Listen now to Mrs. Waite speaking just for women. Hi, here we are again talking about the Prayer of Jada, this prayer which suddenly has hit the news, hit the books, become bestseller, top of the New York Times list, this book called the Prayer of Jada, which Bruce Wilkinson the founder of Walk Through the Bible has put together. It's just a small little book. It's a tiny, like someone's prayer book or something like that. I was interested in the back. It says, Coming Soon, The Prayer of Javis Leather and Leather Edition. That's coming out on April 2001. The Prayer of Javis Journal, available May 2001. The Prayer of Javis Devotional, available 2001. the Prayer of Jabez Bible Study available 2001, the Prayer of Jabez for Teens 2001, the Prayer of Jabez Gift Edition August 2001. I'll tell you this Mr. Wilkinson is really going to be raking in the money, him or his organization, whoever collects the funds. And I thought here my husband Dr. D.A. Wade, he is defending the King James Bible, I guess we should put it out in leather. and we should put it out in a journal form, and I guess we should put it out in a devotional form, in a Bible study form, then we should have a special Defending the King James Bible for teens, and then a special real glitzy one for a gift edition. I suppose when you have a good thing going, you may as well keep putting it in different ways. I don't mean to be sarcastic. I am sure that Mr. Wilkinson has a heart for this prayer, and he says he's prayed it for many years, I forget if it's 30 years, something like that every day over and over when he's on an airplane he prays it or he takes sections of it and prays it he's encouraged other people to pray it he gives speeches on it one time he was talking to a group of people there was a surgeon in there I think who had prayed this prayer ten years I'm a little mixed up whether he's the one that prayed it ten years or whether he's the one that prayed it twenty years but anyhow he prayed it and one of it says that he would not cause pain that's part of the prayer you know that I may not cause pain and this is a surgeon he causes pain every time he lifts up the knife and yet he says he's been so blessed and part of the prayer is that I may not cause pain it'd be like a dentist when you sat in a chair that he'd pray this J-Biz prayer and say that I may not cause pain well maybe that's what Novocaine is for to help him answer this prayer I don't know I've been reading from EDM letter and I really have a lot to say on this and I'm getting a little silly here I'm sorry That's because I don't have it all written down. I'm ad-libbing most of this except what I read from Mr. Micell's paper here. Now maybe you've forgotten what 1 Corinthians 4 and 9, 1 Chronicles. I really stumble around in words and I'm sorry. My husband says, you race too much, you race too much, but I have so much to say. 1 Chronicles 4 9-10 reads, And Jabez was more honorable than his brethren. And his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Bless, because I bear him with sorrow. And Jazob called on the God of Israel, saying, O that thou wouldst bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me. and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me." And God granted him that which he requested. Of course I use the King James Bible. Well, I'm thinking of his mother again, being a mother of five children. Yes, we do bear our children with sorrow, but we don't have to name our children that. Now, don't you remember, I believe it was Rachel? and she wanted children and finally she had Joseph. Remember she carried on and carried on with that. She didn't have children and she was crying and everything to Jacob and it wasn't Jacob's fault you know because he had other wives and concubines and why in the world that was allowed in the Old Testament time I don't know but it was and he so he was perfectly capable of fathering a child where Rachel oh I want a baby So she had Joseph, her firstborn, and then finally she was blessed with a second one, Benjamin. And she died in childbirth. And she named him Son of My Sorrow or something like that, Ben-O-Mai. And then Jacob changed it to Son of My Right Hand, Benjamin. I believe that's all right. I didn't look up those things to tell you. There is this woman that suffered. She died. We have no reason to believe that Jada's mother died. She just might have been a baby about childbirth. Who knows? And she might really have hurt. I don't want to doubt that. But some people don't have to name their child. Oh, suffering. What if I named all my children? The pain and the cause of that type of thing in childbirth. What would you think of me? And what would you think of the children? Then I'm thinking of Ichabod's mother. Remember Ichabod back there in one of the Samuels I think it was? Remember when Eli the priest heard about something happened into the ark and he fell backwards? He was a very heavy man. He probably had a heart attack and he fell back. He probably broke his neck or something or he died with a heart attack. I don't know. I wasn't there. But the woman was delivering twins and she suffered and I believe she died. So, you know, Jabez's mother wasn't the only one. Then let's see. I better read this. I'm talking, jabbering too much, but I do want to, I like to talk a little bit about what I think of this prayer. I think it's a great prayer, but I don't think we should pray it every day. That's it. Jabez was a good and honorable man who asked God to bless him and God did. There are other honorable people. He's honorable. The Bible said he was honorable. That's really nice. Remember when Moses was born his mother said he was a goodly child and she saved him and put him in the bulrushes and all that and he saved the people of Israel because God used him because of the mother's faith well this man was honorable I'm thinking of a woman if I can find it in Acts 17 I just happened upon this this morning these were more noble this is verse 11 than those in Thessalonica in that they received the word with all readiness of mind and searched the scriptures daily whether those things were so. Therefore many of them believed also of honorable women which were Greeks and of men not a few. So there were some honorable women other places besides Jays as being honorable. I'm glad he was honorable. It does us good to have men of honor and honest. Anyhow, it is an example of God's providing for and caring for his people, this prayer of Jabez. Jabez asked and God sovereignly chose to answer. The focus of Jabez's prayer is on God and His provision and protection. Jabez asked our loving Father and He gave him what he requested. Not because Jabez said the right thing or manipulated God into granting his request, but because God decided to be glorified through Jabez by answering his prayer, period. That's the end of the story. He answered his prayer, period. As I said last broadcast, I think he'd be absolutely floored to think everybody was praying his prayer. How would you like to pray something silently and then somebody find it and write it down? And oh, it's okay. It's like a history thing, like in your diary or something. And then everybody starts praying it, writing books about it, etc. Now Bruce Wilkinson is the author and Mr. Missell in his BDM letter says the subtitle of the book is Breaking Through to the Blessed Life and the publisher's back cover promo reads, Do you want to be extraordinary blessed by God? Now I can find this myself because I have the book here. I bought it. I didn't want to be talking about things that I didn't know about and the way I'm chattering on I'm never going to tell you at all. Do you want to be extravagantly blessed by God? Are you ready to reach for the extraordinary? To ask God for the abundant blessing He longs to give you? This is what the publishers are saying. Join Bruce Wilkinson to discover how the remarkable prayer of a little-known Bible hero can release God's favor, power, and protection. You see how one daily prayer can help you leave the past behind and break through to the life you were meant to live. I've been taking water therapy for a bad back, which I guess I have to learn to live with. Excuse me, let's see, if I would pray this prayer, do you think God would take away my bad back? I doubt it, because it's something that's there that won't go away, and he isn't coming down and touching us like he did in the New Testament. Although, if he wanted to, I'm sure he could help me. But what I'm saying this for is that I met a lady there, I believe she's a Christian woman, and I saw her several times and talked with her and she said, have you heard about the prayer of Jada's? And I said yes. Now I didn't run it down to her because I don't know this woman very well and I don't go around running down other people to strangers who love the Lord Jesus and who are not as well informed as I am. But I thought I have got to read about this prayer. Our granddaughter, one of our granddaughters graduated and at the end of the graduation, it was a homeschool graduation, it was very interesting. I had never been to a homeschool graduation before and at the end of the time a man prayed a prayer. I thought well isn't that nice. But see I didn't realize it but my husband said to me that's the prayer of Jabez at the graduation. Now I happen to know that one of these people at the graduation, the graduation was Friday, so there was Friday night, Saturday night, Sunday night. On Sunday night, wrecked her car. She was going too fast on a rainy pavement. and it skidded around and it turned over twice and she and her friend her girlfriend who was with her were hanging by their seatbelts like little old opossums I guess you could say. Now she hurt herself a little bit but not as much as she could have been hurt and when I heard this because I believe God is working in this girl's life and I don't think she's always listening I said God has spoken. Now I'm telling you this only because That prayer was prayed at her graduation. And so, you know, for power and protection, well, there was protection, but there was not a lot of wisdom there, was there? And I don't even think the girl knew it was Jada's prayer. She was probably as ignorant as I was about the whole thing because I don't always pay that much attention. In the preface of the book, Wilkinson writes, I want to teach you how to pray a daring prayer that God always answers. It is brief, only one sentence with four parts, and tucked away in the Bible. but I believe it contains the key to a life of extraordinary favor with God. This petition has radically changed what I expect from God and what I experience every day by His power. In fact, thousands of believers who are applying it's truth are seeing miracles happen on a regular basis. In his book, he says, miracles will happen, miracles will happen. I hope I can get it before I go. It says, yes, this daring prayer God always answers. I think it's very dangerous, a very dangerous thing to say this and to pray this prayer with the thought that God is always answering. I'm under God's care. Are you? You have been listening to Just for Women with Yvonne Waite, sponsored by the Bible for Today Baptist Church in Collingswood, New Jersey. We invite you to visit our church Sundays 10 a.m. and 1 30 p.m. and Thursdays at 8 p.m. If you need more information about our church, our broadcast, or our Savior, please call us toll-free, 1-800-JOHN-109. The organist and pianist is Mr. Dick Carroll. Your announcer has been Dr. D. A. Waits, pastor of the Bible for Today Baptist Church. We invite all you ladies to join us for our next broadcast, heard twice weekly over this same station, and hear Yvonne Waits and Just for Women. The End Just for Women. Listen to Mrs. Waite speak from her heart to your need. Pause a moment and care. Just for Women is an unusual broadcast for women in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation. Yvonne Waite deals biblically with the many issues facing women today. The Bible tells the older women to speak the things which become sound doctrine, and teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed. Listen now to Mrs. Wake speaking just for women. Hi again, we're talking about Jay's breath. the prayer of Jabez, and I'm sort of reviewing Bruce Wilkinson's book. I'm going to be talking about this subject for several broadcasts, so I hope you tune in, and if you want this tape, I'll be glad to give it to you if you ask me for it. It would be nice if you could help pay a little bit for it, but I want you to be aware not to be taken in by the latest fads, the latest praying fads. You know, Christians are no different than other people, and first I want to say this, that as you read this little book, The Prayer of Jabez, which the man says we should pray it for 30 days, Wilkinson the author, we should pray it for 30 days in a row, and we should read this book over and over again. I forget how many times we're supposed to read this book over, but we're supposed to do it. We're supposed to expect blessings today from it, reading it. Anyhow, it's sort of like a formula. As I read this little booklet, now I read it fast, I will say that, I don't see any way in this book where the way of the cross has been made plain, how to become a Christian through the faith of our Jesus Christ, through his precious shed blood. Father, I have sinned. I am a sinner. My sin condemns me, and I come to thee, dear God in heaven, through Jesus Christ, what he paid for me at Calvary, to be born again. Because let me tell you, listener, that if you don't know Jesus Christ as your Savior, you can pray Jabez prayer until you're blue in the face and God's not going to hear it. The hearing of God comes when you say that you want to accept Jesus Christ as your Savior. And any other kind of blessing that you get because God is gracious and the rain falls on the good and the bad. The rain falls on no matter where you live or where you don't live. It falls or doesn't fall. Christians have these hackneyed sayings that they're doing and I think the Jabez prayer, the whole concept is one of these things that's coming in our life. Remember, for a long time we had to say planet earth, everything was on planet earth. You know, I'm here on planet earth, how are you all on planet earth? God died for those on planet earth. Then we were going around sharing. and share everything. If you didn't share the gospel, you weren't doing it correctly. It had to be sharing. It wasn't just giving the gospel like we did when I was a child. Like when I got saved, we just used biblical words. And then, oh, everyone's impacted. This impacts you. This impacted. Oh, I got, it was so tired of hearing this all the time. This was one of the things. Now, of course, mentor and mentoring. I read in this book by Mr. Wilkinson that Professor Howard Hendricks was his mentor. Now, we happen to know Mr. Hendricks from back in Dallas Theological days. These words are all the time. Now, today, oh, you don't have a problem. Nobody has a problem anymore. You just have issues. I remember our oldest son who had taught for 25 years plus and he said when he was not supposed to say your child was a problem, your child had a problem with this, you had to say your child has an issue. So you listen to that to have issues. There was a man on the telephone that we called for help, our son who works here in the Bible for Today ministry, and our son had a girl. He was called away and so I was given the phone, just to keep that man happy I guess, and I said, I guess you're the man that helps fix our computer problems. Oh no, you don't have problems. We never have computer problems. We just have issues. There's all these trendy sayings, when I was younger you gave a testimony, and they were called popcorn testimonies, then were called witnessing, then we have fishing for men, then there's soul winning, then there's discipling, then there's mentoring. And missionaries, oh they don't do deputation work anymore, no, that's pre-field ministry. So we have all these little coin words, all this jargon, and Jabez seems to be one of the new coin words. Not that I dislike J-Biz, I never met him personally but I've read him in the Old Testament. My husband said it was strange that Dallas Theological Seminary graduate and a person from there and that's supposed to be a dispensational school. would push an Old Testament prayer to be said over and over. Now the seminary isn't doing it, but this graduate is. And the man Richard Sunay was the chaplain who first introduced Mr. Wilkinson to this prayer. Want a bigger vision for your life, Mr. Sunay said? Sign up to be a GIMPER for God. G-I-M-P-E-R for God. And you see, even though Mr. Swindell, the latest ex-president, was trying to soften the dispensational fervor of Dallas Theological Seminary, and he managed, still there is a distinction. When you read the Bible, God deals differently, and he dealt differently, with different men at different times in Bible history. We, now you and I, we live in the Age of Grace. One man told me the other day, he said, we were in the millennium. I said, this you consider the millennium? You consider all this sitting around here, all this, everything the millennium? Well, we're not talking about that. What is a gimper? A gimper, according to this person here, says one who puts the finishing touches, the extra thing, like on the upholstery or furniture. Well, my husband and I both, we thought a gimper A gimpie was a lame person you know now a gimper according to Mr. Wilkinson and his mentor was someone who added extra thing and that's what we're supposed to be for God we're supposed to be Jada's gimpers for God well that's sort of funny it seems strange to me and we're supposed to pray these prayers and I'm not saying that you can't pray this prayer but all the thing that this prayer does is sort of all very selfish and I'm thinking of John the Baptist when he said he, meaning Jesus Christ, must increase and I must decrease. I think Javis would be very embarrassed if we could talk to him in person that he's being highlighted so. Javis, now where else? There are other things in here I want to talk about. So Mr. Wilkinson decided that he was going to pray Javis prayer and he said the next morning I prayed Javis prayer word for word and the next day and the next 30 years later I haven't stopped it. If you were to ask me which sentence other than my prayer for salvation has revolutionized my life and ministry the most I would tell you it was the cry of a gimper named Javis. This gimper named Javis is really remembered still for what he did, not for what he did, excuse me, but for what he prayed and for what happened next. Of course he's remembered for that he prayed, that's what he did too. I challenge you to make the JBS prayer for blessing. This is Mr. Wilkinson, part of the fabric of your daily life. To do that I encourage you to follow unwaveringly the plan outlined here for the next 30 days. By the end of that time you will be noticing significant changes in your life and the prayer will be on its way to becoming a treasured lifelong habit. So we're supposed to start memorizing this prayer. We're supposed to be saying it every day. Wilkinson claimed that if we just pray the prayer of J-Biz word for word every day of a month then we'll see God's power released in our lives. To Wilkinson, the key isn't God's choice to answer prayer. No. The key is that Jabez stumbled upon the right formula for asking things of God. Wilkinson reverses the cause and effect and implies that Jabez was honorable because he figured out the right way to pray. Wilkinson emphasizes on Jabez finding the correct method instead of God and His sovereignty. I think that's so foolish. It really is. God takes the weak things of our lives and he makes something of them. When we are weak, then he is strong. When we pray and stumble, stumble along in our prayers, God can use us. Whether we can pray beautifully or not. whether we have the right formula or not. A brief examination of Wilkins major tenets reveal the errors in his teaching. I'm reading from the BDM letter. James' prayer or Jesus' prayer in Matthew 6, 5, 13 and Luke 11, 2-4. Jesus gives us some instructions how to pray. Now we all know the Lord's prayer. In fact, it's a model prayer for the disciples. It's really not a prayer that you and I are supposed to pray all the time. No, it really isn't, but we know it. We hear it. I hear it sometimes on programs where they pray prayers by rote all the time. I heard one the other day where they prayed over and over for the Holy Spirit to come down. They pray to Mary, they call her God's spouse, over and over, like a prayer wheel or something. This is what Jesus said, and when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the street, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you that they have their reward. But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father, which is in secret. And thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly. But when we pray, use not vain repetitions. May I say that again? When we pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do. For they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye therefore like unto them. For our Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask. After this manner, Jesus says, therefore pray ye, our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven. give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever amen now if we're going to repeat a prayer and Jesus said we shouldn't have vain repetitions probably that should be the prayer you repeat but I don't believe in repeating the Lord's prayer over and over I know some of you do different denominations do different things But Jesus did not say, pray Jabez's prayer. Jabez's prayer was for Jabez. Solomon's prayer was for Solomon. Different people's prayers, Peter and all these people, their prayers, the Old Testament prayers, were for those people. We're not supposed to pray other people's prayers. We can learn from them, yes, but we're not supposed to be repetitious. Oh, beware, beware of this teaching. I'm under God's care, are you? You have been listening to Just for Women with Yvonne Waite, sponsored by the Bible for Today Baptist Church in Collingswood, New Jersey. We invite you to visit our church Sundays 10 a.m. and 1 30 p.m. and Thursdays at 8 p.m. If you need more information about our church, our broadcast, or our Savior, Please call us toll-free, 1-800-JOHN-109. The organist and pianist is Mr. Dick Carroll. Your announcer has been Dr. D. A. Waite, pastor of the Bible for Today Baptist Church. We invite all you ladies to join us for our next broadcast, heard twice weekly over this same station, and hear Yvonne Waite and just for women. Just for Women. Listen to Mrs. Waite speak from her heart to your need. Pause a moment and care. Just for Women is an unusual broadcast for women in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation. Yvonne Waite deals biblically with the many issues facing women today. The Bible tells the older women to speak the things which become sound doctrine, and teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed. Listen now to Mrs. Wake speaking just for women. I found it very interesting that staffers in the White House and Justice Department are getting on the prayer of jay bags. VanWagen. I'm reading from a letter to the editors from the June 9, 2001 World Magazine. They're getting on the prayer of J. Bez VanWagen, these staffers and people in the White House and Justice Department. It seems like everyone in both Christian and secular circles is chanting the prayer found in 1 Chronicles 4.10, for God's blessing, enlarging of influence, presence and protection. However, most people conveniently forget that verse 9 states that Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. God answered Jabez's prayer because he was walking with God and thus in a position to be blessed. It is pretty presumptuous and arrogant for people, Christians or non-Christians, who may not be walking in love and obedience to God to expect Him to bless them just because they ask. Is this another quick fix fad in Christendom? That's a man from Michigan wrote that as a letter to the editor. And I agree with that. I have this little prayer of Jada's book right before me. Remember I'm reviewing it and talking about it to you. I have so much to say and my time is going away so quickly on these broadcasts. I hope you're listening. I can't get over some of the presumption myself of this Mr. Wilkinson. He's on a role. He's on a blessing role. He's on a financial role. He's on everything. He's doing so well. Some place here I have an ad where they need new people for his ministry. I saw this in a magazine. It says, Walk Through the Bible, and that's Mr. Bruce Wilkinson's main ministry, is taking resumes for instructors to schedule service and teach seminars. call Norm Gross, GROSS, and give us the 800 number. So if you need a job, here is a place. This man has had a big JNES outreach. He is expanding. At the end of the book it tells us how he has prayed this prayer for a whole world ministry. Some of us should just try to brighten the corner where we are, right? Here on page 29 it says, why not make it a lifelong commitment this is what Mr. Wilkinson says to ask God every day to bless you and while he's at it to bless you a lot you know none of this John the Baptist thing he must increase and I must decrease no bless me a lot and we do want to be blessed and I'm not saying we shouldn't be blessed through a simple believing prayer you can change your future this is what Mr. Wilkinson the author of this prayer of Jada's book. You think he wrote the prayer, you think he wrote the Bible where this book is the prayer of Jada's breaking through to the blessed life by Bruce Wilkinson. It's not, it's from scripture. It's not his prayer. It's God's. It belongs in God's book. Through a simple believing prayer you can change your future. You can change what happens one minute from now. Okay, if I had extra minutes, if I wasn't paying for these minutes to talk to you, I would just pause one whole minute, let you pray the prayer of Jabez and see how you've changed. Okay, then we go over here, living by God's math. Whatever our gifts, educational vocation might be, our calling is to do God's work on earth. And then we go over here to pray for larger borders. I wrote this whole booklet on living within the borders of your life. Be happy with what's in the border of your life. Now I find I'm supposed to expand my borders. In fact, they will expand in the next minute. To pray for larger borders is to ask for a miracle. It's that simple. A miracle is an intervention by God to make something happen that wouldn't normally happen. Now I beg to differ with Mr. Wilkinson. I have always been taught that miracles are from God. Miracles. We do not have miracles today like the miracles of the Bible. We don't walk on water. We don't change people from limping to not limping. I mean I limp. I do. I probably told you this before. If I prayed this prayer in one minute, would I stop limping? I doubt it. Is it because I don't have belief and faith? No, I don't think that's it. I just know there's some things that aren't changed. We have to accept some things in our life. And I do not believe that you get miracles by praying this prayer. You might have life changes. God may bring blessings into your life. And I'm not saying that he hasn't brought blessing into Mr. Wilkinson's life. He sure has a big ministry. And I'm sure he takes in a lot of money. But I'm not condemning him for that even. But I don't understand this. You know, at the beginning of the book, he says, God has to answer your prayer. That's what he says. That's what he says in the beginning of this book. And I underlined it myself. And I saw the different reviews. They wondered, I want to teach you how to pray a daring pray that God always answers. Jesus prayed, if it's possible, remove this cup from me. And God did not remove the cup. Jesus went to the cross and he had to be separated from the Father. Do you believe miracles still happen? Wilkinson says, many Christians I met do not. I remind them that miracles don't have to break supernatural laws to be supernatural events. That's what he says. You see that's where I'm a little fuzzy on his word miracles. Now let's see, I want to talk about being blessed. I really do. I am thinking of Jacob in the Old Testament and I'd like to take a little time to find this and to talk to you about it if I can find it without taking up too much time looking for it. Here it is. Remember Jacob left Laban? Jacob was a schemer but you know God in spite of us will use us and he left him and then he and his wives and children all were starting going home. And then they heard that Esau was coming, and of course he was very frightened because he had gypped Esau, his birthright, he had gypped him of something else which doesn't come to me right now. And Jacob was greatly afraid in verse 7 of 32, and he says, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the Lord would say unto me, Return unto thy country and to thy kindred, I will deal well with thee. I am not worthy. That's what Jacob says, of the least of all the mercies and of all the truth which thou hast shown unto thy servant. For with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I am become two bands. Deliver me, I pray thee. from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear lest he will come and smite me and the mother with the children, and that thou sayest, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed of the sand of the seas, which cannot be numbered for multitude." He was very, very frightened. Then after all the children were asleep and his wives, which I don't like this idea of all these lives, but that's in the Bible, so we have to believe that what's there. He was alone, and it says Jacob was left alone. Remember he said, I am not worthy. And he wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day. And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, when this man who was really, I believe Jesus Christ is an angel down here below, doing like a Christophany, I guess that's what it's called. And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh. This man was Jesus, I believe. touched Jacob's thigh and his joint and the hollow of his joint and he wrestled with him and Jacob said let me go or maybe the man did I don't know which he let me go for the day breaketh and he said okay this is what the angel said let me go or Jesus did and he said to Jacob and Jacob said I won't let you go unless you bless me And so, Jacob met him face-to-face, God face-to-face, and they had this wrestling match, and God blessed him. Remember he said, I am not worthy, but yet God blessed him. You are not worthy, I am not worthy, yet God will bless us with salvation if we trust Jesus Christ as Savior. I am not worthy, least of His favor, but Jesus left heaven for me. The Word became flesh, and He died as my Savior, forsaken on dark Calvary. I am not worthy, this dull tongue repeats it. I am not worthy, this heart gladly beats it. Jesus left heaven to die in my place. What mercy, what love, and what grace. Oh, No, no Thank you. That was my husband that played his saxophone. He plays a beautiful saxophone. I am young worthy. Jacob wrestled with the angel. He was blessed, but he limped ever since. I wonder what ailment Jabez suffered with this blessing from God. Because the blessing of God often comes with a personal price. I'm under God's care. Are you? You have been listening to Just for Women with Yvonne Waite, sponsored by the Bible for Today Baptist Church in Collingswood, New Jersey. We invite you to visit our church Sundays 10 a.m. and 1.30 p.m. and Thursdays at 8 p.m. If you need more information about our church, our broadcast, or our Savior, please call us toll-free, 1-800-JOHN-109. The organist and pianist is Mr. Dick Carroll. Your announcer has been Dr. D. A. Waite, pastor of the Bible for a Baptist Church. We invite all you ladies to join us for our next broadcast, heard twice weekly over this same station, and hear Yvonne Waite and Just for Women. a a a Just for Women. Listen to Mrs. Waite speak from her heart to your need. Pause a moment and care. Just for Women is an unusual broadcast for women in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation. Yvonne Waite deals biblically with the many issues facing women today. The Bible tells the older women to speak the things which become sound doctrine. and teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed. Listen now to Mrs. Waite speaking just for women. Hi, here we're back again talking about the Prayer of Jabez. I'm sort of reviewing in a very different fashion Wilkinson's book, The Prayer of Jabez, Breaking Through to the Blessed Life. Now I've picked it apart a little bit, somewhat. I don't say that there aren't some good things in this book. But we have to be discerning. One of my greatest gripes about it is that he assumes that everyone can pray and God will answer. He says God must answer, that he will answer, that he will perform miracles when you pray this prayer. I like this part here, though, because I happen to know this Bible teacher and it seems really dear that he would talk about this man, John Mitchell. You see, Mr. Wilkinson, the author of the book, is a graduate of Dow Seminary, but he is a product of Dr. Howard Hendricks' teaching, where my husband was there before when Mr. Hendricks was a student. My husband will be more of a product of Lewis Barry Schaefer's teaching and those that followed afterwards. Mr. Mitchell was one of the visiting Bible lecturers along with other people like J. Vernon McGee and other people. and I remember John Mitchell and I love to hear him open the word of God and this Mr. Wilkinson said talk about plummeting I fell out of control and weak nothing like the leader I was supposed to feel like all the days I could see was the ground rushing up to me it was in my early ministry adventure after doors have started to burst open on exciting new possibilities and walk through the Bible but I just couldn't shake the feeling that I was the wrong man for the job extremely upset I decided to seek the counsel of a trusted older man, John Mitchell, who was in his 80s at the time, a Yorkshire-born Bible teacher who had been a spiritual father to thousands. I told him what I thought God was calling me to do and then confessed my problem. As an aside, my husband tells me that many of the board wanted John Mitchell to be the president after Dr. Schaefer died, but instead Dr. Walvert was the president. Son, Dr. Mitchell said, and is kindly broke that feeling you are running from is called dependence it means you're walking with the Lord Jesus he paused to let me take in his words then continued actually the second you're not feeling dependent is the second you backed away from the true living truly living by faith and Wilkinson goes on to say I didn't like what I heard you're saying Dr. Mitchell that feeling that I just can't do it is what I'm supposed to be feeling why certainly young man he said beaming That's one is right. That's the one all right. It's a frightening and under exhilarating truth, isn't it? As God's chosen blessed sons and daughters were expected to attempt something large enough that failure is guaranteed unless God steps in. Now, as I said, there are some good things in this book. But I think we have to be very careful about constantly praying a prayer and repetition. This says, notice that Jabez did not begin his prayer by asking for God's hand to be with him. At that point, he didn't sense the need. Now, how does Mr. Wilkinson know? He puts a lot of thoughts into Mr. Jabez that we don't know. We don't know. And he talks about the touch of greatness. And when you pray these prayers and you get these answers, you have a touch of greatness in you. I would not presume to say that I had a touch of greatness. I don't do a whole lot of things but one thing that I do do is a tribute to Fanny Crosby as well as the portrait of Frances Havergill. I experience very strange nothingness when I do Fanny Crosby. I dress up like her. I'm up there and I do this and I become Fanny Crosby and I talk about her. Especially when I first did this I couldn't understand the compliments I got. I couldn't understand the tears that came to people's eyes. I couldn't understand how people came up to me as if I were Fannie Crosby and told me about their lives, especially about their poetry writing. The only thing I could attribute to this, this response to the tribute to Fannie Crosby, was that the Lord was using it. But I felt absolutely nothing. I felt like an empty something or other and sometimes I would be so exhausted. I believe this is how God wants us to feel. What Mr. Mitchell was telling the author of this book, this is dependence on God. When I started these programs to you, this series that I'm doing, I was really frightened and I said to my husband, I'm really frightened. I'm taking on something that I'm not sure I can handle. And he said, well, you just go ahead and do it. You're a mother. your wife you've known the Lord a long time and you know you read this and you have a burden just step out in faith and do it and that's what I'm doing and I appreciate that you women out there listening to me because this is very important for women it really is I'm reading now from the biblical discernment ministries letter I've been trying to read it for quite a few weeks now and I've talked so much I'm not getting very far He gave us the Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name prayer, which many people do it by rote all the time, and I don't think you should do that either, any more than you keep saying Jabez's prayer all the time. Jesus said about his prayer, after this matter is how you should pray. Jesus' prayer was a template or guide for us to follow as we walk with God. This is not to say that Jabez's prayer is wrong. James 5 16b says the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Jabe's prayer certainly qualifies as a fervent prayer of a righteous man. Yet Wilkinson encourages folks to pray Jabe's prayer verbatim every day. This is also contrary to Jesus instructions. when he said, when you pray, use not vain repetitions as the heathen do. Wilkinson is clearly selling Jabe's prayer as a scripturally sanctioned incantation that can guarantee blessings. And I think that's what we who are discerning, who are gullible by everything that happens, don't believe everything we hear. This is what we're concerned about. Wilkinson's The Prayer of Jabez, that's his book, is more about the wisdom and shrewdness of the one doing the asking than the greatness of the one who answers the prayer. Example, Jabez's request is a brilliant but little understood strategy for a blessed life. He says that on page 63. Can you imagine that? It would be like if you said, Jesus, that was a brilliant strategy for a blessed life. The main theme of the book in Wilkins' belief is that Jabez got it right. that Javis figured out exactly what it took to get something from God and that was why he was considered more honorable than everybody else. Wilkins implies that those who pray Javis prayer are just more clever than those who don't. Now I want to talk a little bit about this more honorable thing where it says Javis was more honorable than his brethren. How do we know? That just doesn't mean the boys in his family. That may be why he was so special. How do we know it means all the Israelites? We don't. And I'll tell you something, in Mr. Wilkinson's book, he goes through the whole prayer of Jabez, and one of the last chapters, if not the last chapter, I don't want to take time to look at it, he talks about him being more honorable than the brethren. That is the first thing in the Bible. Mr. Wilkinson has topsy-turvied the verse. The Bible says that Jabez was more honorable than his brethren. That's the first thing. And then his mother named him Jabez, which means sorrow and pain and all that, because she bore him in sorrow. Remember I told you I think she was a little strange to talk about the sorrow that she had in bearing children as if she's the only one and then Jesus called on God and he asked for these things and God granted his request and it doesn't say at the end of verse 10 that he was more humble than his brethren it says that at the beginning we don't know what brethren he's talking about Were they brethren in a certain club? I personally think it was probably his brethren in his family. Then his brothers. You have brothers. You have sisters. There's usually one that's more honorable. One perhaps that has more gifts. One perhaps who has done better. Or one who knows the word of God better. Or one who's had more children. You could say he's more honorable. Okay, where am I in this reading? The prayer of Jesus. Let me stop a minute. The little book, and it's a very little book, and I called the Christian bookstore and it was $9 plus. I went to another bookstore, Baskin Robbins. No, that's the name of an ice cream. I get it always mixed up the name of the store. I'm sorry. I got it with tax for $6.23 because they said this is a best seller and we have a whole lot of them in. Remember I said it's a very big seller. Millions are being sold. And there it was in the bestseller department. And so I got it cheaper. The Christians bookstores should be selling it cheaper, they would sell more. But nevermind, I don't care if they sell them or not. The book encourages and sanctions selfishness as part of one's relationship with God. The Bible teaches that believers prayer is the process of our lining up our will with the will of God, and then obeying. If my prayer does not line up with God's will as revealed in the scriptures, that I need ask him to change my heart. Molding us by changing our desire is part of the sanctification process. But there is no cry to God to change our hearts in the prayer of Javis by Mr. Wilkinson. Selfishness is for its own sake is encouraged. Repetition of Javis prayer is for the sole purpose of causing God to release his blessing and to receive miracles. You will change your legacy and bring supernatural blessing whenever you go. God will release his miraculous power in your life. This is what Mr. Bookins says. And for all eternity, he will ravish on you his honor and delight. That's on page 291 and 292. Can you imagine the gall of a human being saying what God will do? Can you? I'm sorry, the name of that bookstore is Barnes & Noble. I always get it mixed up with the name of the ice cream. I don't know why. Maybe that's a secret desire of mine. Success is seen as a measure of whether one has figured out the formula of Jabez. Wilkins believes he has figured out the formula for success. You can hang the Jabez prayer on the wall of every room in your house and nothing will happen. It is only when you believe will happen and therefore do next that will release God's power for you and bring about a life change. When you act you will step up to God's best for you. I am living proof. Can you imagine? Can you imagine? special button you press. You can have it on the wall, you can have it in your, you know, wear it on a pin, but you have to pray this prayer and then something's released. Sort of like a special aroma that you put in your bathroom so it smells nice. When you turn the light on, then the aroma's released. And so when you pray the prayer, the blessings all come. And I don't say they don't, but I don't say they do. I think this is very dangerous to teach people. I'm under God's care. Aren't you? You have been listening to Just for Women with Yvonne Waite, sponsored by the Bible for Today Baptist Church in Collingswood, New Jersey. We invite you to visit our church Sundays, 10 a.m. and 1.30 p.m. and Thursdays at 8 p.m. If you need more information about our church, our broadcast, or our Savior, please call us toll-free 1-800-JOHN-10-9. The organist and pianist is Mr. Dick Carroll. Your announcer has been Dr. D. A. Waite, pastor of the Bible for Today Baptist Church. We invite all you ladies to join us for our next broadcast, heard twice weekly over this same station, and hear Yvonne Waite and Just for Women. Just for Women. Listen to Mrs. Waite speak from her heart to your need. Pause a moment and care. Just for Women is an unusual broadcast for women in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation. Yvonne Waite deals biblically with the many issues facing women today. The Bible tells the older women to speak the things which become sound doctrine and teach the young women to be sober to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed. Listen now to Mrs. Waite speaking just for women. And Jabez was more honorable than his brethren, and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bear him in sorrow. And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, O that thou wouldst bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldst keep me from evil. that it may not grieve me, and God granted him that which he requested." That's 1 Chronicles 4, 9 and 10. We've been discussing this prayer of Jabez, especially since Mr. Wilkinson, Bruce Wilkinson, has written a book on it. And he's been speaking to thousands of people about it, and hundreds and thousands of people are praying this prayer of Jabez every day, several times a day. In fact, this book is the top seller. Top seller. in every place. I read from David Cloud that the Prayer of Jabez has been so popular it has sold more than 4 million copies and it's really amazing. This book has become extremely popular. It tops the Christian Booksellers Association and Christian retail list at number two on the Publishers Weekly non-fiction list and the New York Times advice list. In the book Wilkinson turns a simple prayer into a formula for obtaining things from God. He instructs his readers, many of whom obviously are not born again, as the book is among the top ten of the New York Times bestsellers, to pray the prayer of Jabez word for word, every day, every day for four weeks, expecting special blessings from God. Wilkinson says, I challenge you to make the Jabez prayer for blessing part of the daily fabric of your life. To do that, I encourage you to follow unwaveringly the plan outlined here for the next 30 days. By the end of that time, you'll be noticing significant changes in your life, and the prayer will be on its way to becoming a treasured lifelong habit. It sort of reminds me of Now I Lay Me Fast Asleep, you know, that we used to pray when we were children, although I didn't pray it very much because my mother knew that that was just a rote prayer and it was not a prayer, really a scriptural prayer. In an interview with the Dallas Morning News for April 13, Wilkinson warns against using the prayer as a means of obtaining physical prosperity, but in this health and prosperity created hour, there can be no doubt that his book will be misconstrued and misconstructed in this way. Right. And the key, let's see what else it says. Wilkinson prays the prayers of Jesus. It is a prayer that God always answers and that it contains the key to a life extraordinarily favored with God. He mentions thousands of people who are praying the Javis prayer and thus are seeing miracles happen on a regular basis. I can't believe that I've been talking about this prayer of Javis book for so many weeks now. I hope you're not bored, but I hope you're listening. If you'd like a copy of this tape, just ask me for it. It would be nice if you could help me with the postage or the expense, but I want you to have it. I haven't written this down, although I could give you a copy of some of the things I've been reading from, but a lot of this is ad-libbed by me because I actually got the book because I didn't want somebody to say, have you not read it? Because many people are raving about this book. Now let's get back to this paper that I'm reading by Mr. Rick Masell called the Biblical Discernment Ministries for Spring 2001. Success is seen as a measure of whether one has figured out the formula of Jabez. Wilkinson believes he has figured out the formula for success. You can hang the Javis prayer on the wall of every room in your house and nothing will happen. It's only when you believe will happen what you believe will happen and therefore do next that will release God's power for you and bring about a life change. It's sort of like I used to play Let's Pretend when I was little and we'd shut our eyes and we'd pretend. I used to listen to, I love to listen to this fairy story. I don't know whether it's the thing to do but there were children's stories like Cinderella acted out and she'd say let's pretend and then they'd play music and then you'd shut your eyes and you'd pretend and then you'd be in this storybook land. I loved it. I had a great imagination. He's saying that, I guess, not that it would be in storybook land, but we have to believe and it will happen. But when you act, you will step up to God's best for you. I'm living proof, Mr. Wilkinson, Bruce Wilkinson said. This year, 2,000 Walk Through the Bible conduct over 2,500 Bible conferences, 50 each weekend. The ministry now publishes 10 magazines each month to help individuals and families grow in God's word every day. We recently passed the 100 million mark in total issues published, this is Wilkinson saying this, almost shocking evidence of what God's grace and J-Biz praying can do. J-Biz praying. That's right, taken from his book. J-Biz praying. I thought we were supposed to pray God praying in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. In this whole J-Biz prayer, there's no mention of Jesus Christ. Nothing. It's just like those missionaries that were shot down over there in Columbia or Peru or someplace. for being mistaken for drug dealers, and when I heard them on ABC being interviewed, he never mentioned the name of Jesus Christ. He mentioned God, he mentioned the word, he mentioned the way, but never Jesus Christ. It is only through the Lord Jesus Christ that salvation comes. It is only through Jesus Christ, and we are supposed to pray in the name of Jesus, not in the name of J-Biz. Although Wilkinson doesn't say you pray in the name of Jabez, I don't want to give any false things. He does say some very interesting things, but you have to be constantly on guard when you're reading his book because some of it is not scriptural. The last section of the book is called Reading for This and implies that we were saved so we could successfully pray the prayer of Jabez. Can you imagine that? And unleash God's power in our lives. Nothing about Jesus' power in our lives or the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives Jabez power! It's sort of like a football game, rah, rah, rah, Jabez! And like the teaching of the Charismatics, if we fail to see God's power unleashed, we are spiritually deficient. By the way, in this book, The Prayer of Jabez, I read that Wilkinson was very active in the, what is that, those men movement, what are those called again? Oh, the promise keepers, that's what it's called. My, where am I? Okay, Wilkinson also uses the success stories of others to validate his methods. That's sort of like the charismatic story theology. There are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people who have prayed Jabez's prayer and attribute their prosperity directly to the mindless repetition of the prayer. Wilkinson's website even has a forum to discuss success stories. And I've been told that you even go to little groups, like little cell groups, little studies, and you study this little book, The Prayer of Jabez. Wilkinson's website even has a forum. I said that already. One could just as easily cite the success stories, followers, of Islam who pray toward Mecca every day and credit that practice for their prosperity. Other credit Oprah for their prosperity, or yoga, or the Tarots, or crystal readings, or a host of other things for their success. Experiences should never be used to validate any practices, only the Word of God. I'm reminded of when we went to Europe someplace, or we were going to Africa, or Holy Land someplace, And on the scraping airplane, a man got up, went to a bare floor space on the airplane, which you don't have much of, put a blanket down, got down on his forehead, his knees in his forehead, and prayed to Allah. That's what a dedicated man he was to his religion. But he wasn't praying to God through Jesus Christ. Maybe he was throwing a few Jabez phrases in, I don't know. The formula Wilkinson is teaching leaves no room for God to say no or wait. Faithfully pray the prayer of Jabez and you've got God in a box. That should be the name of his next book, God in the Box. He can put that on a leather and for teens and for devotionals and for study Bibles. If you've been following me you know what I'm talking about. Yet the Bible teacher teaches that when one trusts Christ a relationship is begun with him that is a part defined by submission to the will of God and a recognition of his absolute right to do whatever he pleases with us. Frequently that can mean that God says no to our prayer requests. According to Wilkinson, sin in our lives is the only thing that will stop the repetition of Jabez's prayer from working. Let me emphasize again, one of the prerequisites does not seem to have to know Jesus Christ as Savior to pray this Jairus prayer. And that's the first and worst mistake of all. Oh, how many professing Christians wish that Bruce Wilkinson were right, that they could repetitively pray the same thing over and over for a month, and God would be obliged to bless them and make them prosperous. But God's purposes for us in our lives are far beyond what we're able to comprehend. And sometimes we don't see his blessing until months or years after he's provided them. See Genesis 50 verse 20. We can't know the mind of God and we can't coerce him into blessing us. He can't and won't be controlled or manipulated. If he could, then he wouldn't be God and he wouldn't be worthy of worship, honor, and praise. Jim Dodson's endorsement of the prayer of JB's has caused the book sales to explode. Dobson has given credibility to what would otherwise have been denounced as the prosperity gospel or name it and claim it theology. The real tragedy of Bruce Wilkinson's book will be the carnage created as desperate souls follow his advice and pray Jabez's prayer for a month and yet see no change or see things getting worse around them. The book has no discussion of what to do when the prayer seems to fail. Examples, a child dies, a marriage fails, a job is lost, or healing does not come. Many of them will turn to themselves seeking the reason, yet Wilkinson has guaranteed, yes he says so, in his book, I read it, that the prayer will work. The clear implication is that a failed prayer equals failed faith. Wilkinson teaches a shallow, results-oriented faith. that is supposed to guarantee success as opposed to a deep, abiding, loving relationship with our Father that will sustain us through heartache and failure and success. Well, I ended that particular one, but I still have more to say on this subject, I think, next time. But I want to ask you, have you been praying the JV's prayer? And have you been disappointed? Yes, you probably have been many times. You can imagine things are going your way, and maybe they are going God's way and your way. I don't know. You know, it is always the same. God's way and your way are not always the same. But if you've been disappointed, I want you to know that there's no disappointment in Jesus. I'm under his care, are you? You have been listening to Just for Women with Yvonne Waite. Sponsored by the Bible for Today Baptist Church in Collingswood, New Jersey. We invite you to visit our church Sundays, 10 a.m. and 1.30 p.m. and Thursdays at 8 p.m. If you need more information about our church, our broadcast, or our Savior, please call us toll-free 1-800-JOHN-10-9. The organist and pianist is Mr. Dick Carroll. Your announcer has been Dr. D. A. Waite, pastor of the Bible for Today Baptist Church. We invite all you ladies to join us for our next broadcast, heard twice weekly over the same station, and hear Yvonne Waite and Just for Women. Just for Women. Listen to Mrs. Waite speak from her heart to your need. Pause a moment and care. Just for Women is an unusual broadcast for women in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation. Yvonne Waite deals biblically with the many issues facing women today. The Bible tells the older women to speak the things which become sound doctrine and teach the young women to be sober to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed. Listen now to Mrs. Waite speaking just for women. Take time to look. It is the price of success. Take time to think. It is the source of power. Take time to play. It is the secret of perennial youth. Take time to read. It is the source of wisdom. Take time to be friendly. It is the way to happiness. Take time to laugh. It is the music of the soul. That's from Sunshine Magazine. I read that in The Sword of the Lord. Here we are again talking about the Prayer of Javis, a book by Mr. Bruce Wilkinson. And I wanted to read you a little bit more of what David Cloud had written. I had already read to you from the BDM letter. If you want these tapes, just ask for them. Help with the postage if you can. I have been giving the number, 1-800-JOHN-10-9. My husband gives it. I'm Mrs. Waite. Well, you already know that. My husband is Dr. Waite, and I guess you know that too. Beware of Wilkinson's prayer of Javis. God does hear and answer prayer in accordance with his word. A scriptural prayer is not demanding things of God. It is requesting things. It is not an attempt to manipulate God. It is rather always submitted humbly to God's sovereign will and wise will. We're warned by Jesus not to have vain repetition. We're not supposed to have a special formula. There were times in Paul's life that God answered, no, he never took away the thorn of the flesh, thorn in his side. We're supposed to be careful for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be known unto God. We're not supposed to demand from God. Now, let's see, beware Wilkinson's prayer of Jabez. It contains a good challenge to pray expectantly to God and to earnestly seek God's blessing. But this little book, would not be so widely popular in this apostate day described in 2nd Timothy 4, 3, and 4 if it were not promising something God does not promise. God's word calls Christians people to sacrifice and trouble in this present time. Teachers described in 2nd Timothy 4, 3, and 4 call people rather to prosperity and self-esteem than causes to trouble. The average Christian bookstore is filled with material that is popular with Christians. in their population, and they think gain is godliness. But absent are books containing the reproof and rebuke of sound preaching and the voice of warning that is so desperately needed. Pray in everything, Philippians 4, 6 says, and call upon God for mighty things. But don't be discouraged when the great and loving God chooses not to do things exactly as you ask. The answer to our prayer for blessing can come in the form of trouble and difficulty in testing. If you could obtain everything we prayed for, there would be no need of faith. But without faith, it is impossible to please him, for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him." We even got an email from a missionary in Australia. He said that the book, The Prayer of Jabez, was written by Dr. Bruce Wilkinson, founder and president of the Walk Through the Bible Ministries in Atlanta, Georgia. The book's theme is 1 Chronicles 4.9-10 and I've read this too many times. From this Wilkinson wrote a book and it has sold over 4 million copies. In the book's preface he writes, I want to teach you how to pray a daring prayer that God always answers. It is a brief only one sentence prayer with four parts tucked away in the Bible but I believe it contains the key to a life of extraordinary favor with God. This petition has radically changed what I expect from God and what I experience every day by His power. In fact, thousands of believers who are applying His truth are seeing miracles happen on a regular basis. Walk through the Bible webpages, hundreds of testimonies from those that have read the book and prayed the J-Biz prayer. Here is one of such testimonies our missionary friend David Bennett has written. Quote my wife and I. This is not his testimony. It's what he read on the web page. My wife and I have been separated for six months. Our marriage was at an end. I prayed without ceasing for God to heal our marriage. A dear coworker gave me the book on the Javis prayer and I read it and I prayed it in my daily devotions. One evening there came a knock on my apartment door. It was my wife. She was in tears. She said she realized that the only thing in her life that God had his hand on was our marriage. I am one man who is happy to meet my friend Jabez. I love to share the prayer with anyone who will listen." Comment by the missionary from Australia. Wilkinson said this is a prayer that God always answers. Where in the Bible does he get this? God manipulation through prayer? Secondly, note the man's testimony. He is not seeking to share the Lord Jesus, but the Jabez prayer. This repetition sounds like the Roman Catholic Rosary. Are Christians so spiritually hungry that they will eat at any table? Are Christians so biblically illiterate they cannot discern this is nothing more than clouds without water? Titus 2.9 says, holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught. that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainslayer." I'm not saying that Mr. Wilkinson doesn't say some good things. In his chapter, Oh That You Would Keep Me From Evil, these are Jabez's words, He talks about this. He talks about, without a doubt, success brings with it greater opportunities for failure. Just look around at the Christian leaders who have fallen into sin, dropped out of the ministry, and left in their wake untold numbers of shaken disillusion and injured people. And we know that's true, isn't it? Sometimes the sense of blessedness is the greatest apparel because it tends to dull our keen sense of dependence on God and makes us prone to presumption. You are going to experience more attacks on you and your family when you pray this prayer of Jervos and as you become successful. You are going to become familiar with the enemy's unwelcome barbs, distractions, oppositions, and oppressions, for starters. In fact, if your experience is anything but that, be concerned. teach, I don't mean teach, but work in the library with Mrs. Hendricks. But Hendricks looks deeply alarmed at something that is being said here. This one student at seminary was saying before he came to seminary how difficult his life was, how Satan was really badgering him, but since he's been to seminary his life has been so smooth and Dr. Hendricks looked very alarmed and said, that's about the worst thing I've ever heard. That shows me that you're no longer in battle and Satan isn't worried about you anymore. We were redeemed and commissioned for the front lines. That's why praying to be kept from evil is such a vital part of our ministry. When Satan, since Satan's most opposes those who are becoming the greatest threat to him and his kingdom, the more God answers your Jabez poor, The more you should be prepared to confront spiritual attack. Sometimes, however, you cannot be kept from evil because by God's power you are attempting to launch a D-Day offense against the darkness. At those times you can stand confidently against the enemy with Paul's weapon of warfare. So he talks about standing from evil, to be kept from evil, but you know, you and I know that testings or temptations often make us stronger. My mother taught me years ago the verse which we all have learned. In 1 Corinthians 10.13, there hath no temptation or testing taken you, but such is common to man. But God is faithful who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able, but will with the temptation also make a way of escape that ye may be able to bear it. So we see that from the Word of God that we cannot be kept from evil all the time. But our prayer should look for the way of escape from these testings and temptations that will war against our soul and ruin our testimony. I think of what Jesus said in the Lord's Prayer, really the disciples prayer. He said, deliver us from evil. So that sounds like maybe we are in evil, but we must be delivered from it before it snatches our souls. I don't mean that you can lose your salvation, but your testimony can be ruined. And then we see in Psalm 23 what is said there about evil. I, yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me, thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. So it sounds like maybe a Christian does go through some evil. All evil isn't sexual evil, although that's a great temptation to many people. And God knows this, and he's there to deliver you. And he says, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. The shadow of death is not death, it's the looming horror, the looming fear, the looming pain and everything that goes with death. And sometimes you experience this when a loved one dies. And we all, unless Jesus comes again while we're living, we all experience the actual death and as we approach it is the shadow. And then the psalmist says, I will fear no evil. and then we with Jesus can pray, deliver me from evil. Oh Lord, help us to rely on thee and not some prayer because we know your eye is upon us. Now listen to our daughter Diane as she sings a song that will bless your heart. I'm accompanying her on the piano. Mr. Carroll wasn't here that day. Listen and be blessed. There'll be light in the sky From the palace on high When I come to the end of the road Sweet relief from all care Will be waiting me there When I come to the end of the road When the long day is ended, the journey is o'er I shall enter that blessed abode For the Savior I love When you come to the end of the road, will you be ending with the Lord Jesus Christ? And will you be with Him, which is far better for the Christian? He says, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father but by me. I'm under God's care. Are you? You have been listening to Just for Women with Yvonne Waite, sponsored by the Bible for Today Baptist Church in Collingswood, New Jersey. We invite you to visit our church Sundays, 10 a.m. and 1.30 p.m. and Thursdays at 8 p.m. If you need more information about our church, our broadcast, or our Savior, please call us toll-free 1-800-JOHN-10-9. The organist and pianist is Mr. Dick Carroll. Your announcer has been Dr. D. A. Waits, pastor of the Bible for Today Baptist Church. We invite all you ladies to join us for our next broadcast, heard twice weekly over this same station, and hear Yvonne Waite and Just for Women. Just for Women. Listen to Mrs. Waite speak from her heart to your need. Pause a moment and care. Just for Women is an unusual broadcast for women in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation. Yvonne Waite deals biblically with the many issues facing women today. The Bible tells the older women to speak the things which become sound doctrine and teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed. Listen now to Mrs. Waite speaking just for women. I am so glad, dear Lord, to say that one day long ago I learned to pray and tell Thee my every care and woe. For since I am a mother and now so long of life, how strange and oft hard things do come into my life. I cannot tell these secret cares to other ears but Thine. They either sound too dreadful or I appear to whine. I would not cast aspersions on those I hold so dear, yet they do cause me problems, perplexity, and fear. So many things I do not know, seem much I'll never learn. I could not tell another they would not indiscern. But thou, dear Lord, my friend so true, who formed my frail weak frame, I'm glad I can confide in you in thine attention claim. That was written by my mother, Gertrude Sanborn. It's been a while since I've told you about some of our travels. I did tell you about New Orleans last month where I went on and on. You probably thought I'd never end and I thought I'd never end also. But we went other places too in March. Now, my, that was so long ago you would think I couldn't remember what we did. My husband, Pastor Wade and I drove over to Elkton, Maryland to attend the Fundamentals of the Faith Conference with Dr. Alan Dickerson. He's the host every year at his Maranatha Baptist Church on Old Elk Neck Road. My husband wasn't speaking. We just wanted the fellowship. I'm reminded of some woman who never goes unless she's a speaker to women's meetings. If everyone felt that way, I think most places would be empty. It doesn't take us long to get to Elkton from here in Collingswood, maybe a little over one hour. It is always a joy to fellowship with like-minded believers. We enjoy it there very much. I heard two new speakers this year along with the regulars. There were Pastor Joseph Pagano from Middletown Baptist Church in Middletown, Pennsylvania, as well as Dr. Dickinson's assistant, Pastor Brian Green. He is a personable young man with a southern accent. He reminds me a lot of Gary Webb in his speech. It was a privilege to hear these new voices give their heart burden to us who were listening in the pew. We were pleased to visit with two of our Bible for Today Baptist Church video friends, the Rays from Virginia and the Monsignors from New Jersey. I did want to talk to Jeanne Dow, the Dean of Women at the college. Dr. Dickerson has a college there. But time got away from me. I think the college is called Maryland Bible College, if I'm not mistaken. She is a kind and friendly woman of the word of God. Her special number and song, when they ring those golden bells for you and me, touched my heart very much. My mind flashed back to the death of my dear sixth sister, Audrey, who at the age of 20 looked at my father and whispered, I hear the bells behind me. And she died. I always enjoy the Maranatha Baptist Church bookstore there, buying a year's supply of and children's songs and stories for my little kitchen class in our church. That day I purchased a piano tape by Benita Shockley Dow, Maranatha's church pianist. The music tape is dedicated to her father, a pastor who died in recent years. She plays in her lovely gentle style his favorite old-fashioned hymns and gospel songs. It has been such a blessing to both my husband and me as we drive to and fro in our car around here. Her beautiful touch soothes my tired soul. You ought to go to that bookstore and buy some of her tapes. She has three of them. I wish I had bought all three of them. Dr. Dickerson's son is the headmaster of his day school. Can't come up with his first name at this writing. I think maybe he's a junior. Sorry, many of Maryland Bible College, the church's college, are off on the mission field or almost there. My husband and I are especially grateful for the radio station WOEL, which airs all of our Bible for Today radio programs. I don't know if you know it, but we have the Bible for Today daily, the Bible for Today weekly. My husband has those. They are mostly in defense of traditional texts. The Bible for Today Baptist Church Hour, which you may hear, probably you do on your station. You ask and see. And of course, Just for Women, my program, which is on twice a week. I'll tell you, I'd really like to be on more than twice a week. But you know, you have to pay for these stations. Some people think that I get paid for being on the radio. I really have to laugh at that. If you can't hear these programs over there, look up our website. www.biblefortoday.org. I'll say that again www.biblefortoday.org and hear them there or order the tapes from us. Dr. Dixkerson asked us to pray for the stations getting on the internet soon as well as erecting a new radio tower in their Lancaster, Pennsylvania area. I guess I've been doing so many programs my mouth is getting all mixed up. As I've told you before, I do eight at a time and this is my eighth one. What a radio vision Dr. Dickerson and his church have. This will be a further opportunity to proclaim God's word with that new antenna. How exciting for them and for the listener. Then in April, the 22nd, 23rd to be exact, we were in Chesterton, Indiana at Fairhaven Baptist Church. My husband and I didn't know much about Fairhaven Baptist Church in Chesterton, Indiana when he accepted an invitation over a year ago to be part of Pastor Roger Volklin's annual Bible conference. Dr. Wade is always happy to teach interested people the defense of the Texas Receptus in the King James Bible. You have heard him on his videos or over various teaching areas know that this teaching is needed today in the hearts of church people and pastors. So it was with eagerness to proclaim that truth that we stepped from our plane and its bumpy landing onto the safe ground of the Windy Cities, Chicago's airport. O'Hare Airport. How good to have Dr. Chris McNeely and his two sons meet us at the gate. He is a good man. Yes, he is. Friendly, loves the Lord, and is a defender of the Texas Receptus. You may wonder how that came about. Well, at first he taught his Bible classes like he'd been taught at Bob Jones University. He knocked down the true text, the Textus Receptus, and built up the critical ones. Then one of his students told her father. Her daddy, defender of the King James Bible, gave Mr. McNeely evidence to prove that the King James Bible was translated correctly. See what a student can do? It was a student who introduced Dr. Waite to Revision Revised by Burgon. I've told you this before. You can order that book from us if you want to. Of course, you have to pay for it. And it changed the course of Dr. Waite's life. So don't be afraid to show someone with more education than you have the truth. Most teachers and preachers have been trained well, but trained wrong. Sad, but true. My husband was. It was about a half hour or an hour and a half drive to the Fairhaven campus from Chicago on the way we ate at the Cracker Barrel. I love to look at all the pretties in that restaurant, don't you? I found out that Dr. McLeady received his doctor's degree from Maryland Baptist Bible College in Elkton. I was just telling you about that small world. Even smaller, he graduated from Bob Jones University and about the same time our daughter and son-in-law were there. And guess what? When I asked our son-in-law if he knew the Fairhaven Bible teacher, Sure enough, he did. They were in the same society. Bob Jones has that grouping of students like sororities and fraternities and secular colleges and universities. In some ways it casts immediate class distinction and differences, sort of snobbery within the student body. Our son-in-law said Chris was strong as Dr. McNeely. The reason he knows that is that they wrestled one time together. He also listed other fellows in his society that hung around with Chris and the society. I was very interested in this because some of these very names I had learned about when we were at Fairhaven Baptist Church in college. He was surprised, my son-in-law, was it? Some were in Christian work, even missionaries. Another proof that people's ways can change, or do they? My daughter was a cheerleader for another one of the university societies and she had her cheering assignment changed so she could cheer for Reggie's society. It's not an unheard thing that you could change societies but our daughter has a way of doing that. She remembered being bumped into by one of the society men playing basketball. I think he may have knocked her to the ground. From then on every time he saw her he apologized. He's a missionary now. We heard about him when we were there at Fairhaven. I don't know if that's good or bad. It depends what view you take on him. My husband's first assignment there at Fairhaven was a combined Sunday school class. It was full of adults and older young people, including college students from the college. There were about 900 people there. At first, Pastor Voegelin and the staff were dubious. If questioned, the answers would go over in his church. This is often the fear of many pastors. To the delight and edification of all, questions kept coming, good questions, with Dr. Wade answering with good answers and limiting himself to two minutes per answer. You'll have to get the Fairhaven question and answer tapes. Ask for them. As the conference continued, my husband not only gave two excellent defenses of the text that underlies the King James Bible and the Bible itself, but also had three more sessions of questions and answers. I wish you could have been there. One of the sessions was in the college library and it was outstanding. There must have been 75 mostly men asking popcorn questions. The other church and conference sessions had 1,200 on Sunday and 1,800 on Thursday. Was something about the library group, the feel, the look, the intensity. Oh, I nearly forgot about the question and answers in the Greek class. Those men are in the direction of their teacher, doctor, not a doctor, but Mr. Dan Armacost. I'm sure he wants to be one. Had been saving up questions for several weeks to ask Dr. Waite. I wasn't in that class. Had to have time to wash my hair sometime. You must get the tapes of the lectures. I didn't video, I've just gotten too tired to keep videoing all the time. The first lecture was Sunday night. Ask for the fundamental defense of the KJV and text. We were told there were 1,800 on Tuesday night. That was the first actual night of the conference when the people and pastors came from all over as well as the church and the college regulars. That night my husband gave his answer to the Tiger Book. Well, his answer, his Tiger Book, that's what I call it, which is an answer to the mind of God and the mind of man, a book published by many uninformed fundamentalists. Remember, that's the book that tries to neutralize people's Bible stand. By the way, it never defends the text's reception position at all, only the Nestle-Allen United Bible Society text, modified Westcott and Hort text. And the majority text, you have to watch it because in the olden days when my husband first began this learning in his defense of the TR, the TR was also called the majority text. But since Hodges and Farson and Pickering and Pierpont and Robinson's works, the Texas Receptus defenders must not use the term majority text anymore. See the track my husband wrote for the Dean-Burgon Society several years ago says, why reject the majority text? Well, I think I'm going to have to close and I haven't even finished this update for you. And I'm not sure whether I will next program or not. Depends how the Lord leads me. I'm under God's care. Are you? You have been listening to Just for Women with Yvonne Waite. Sponsored by the Bible for Today Baptist Church in Collingswood, New Jersey. We invite you to visit our church Sundays, 10 a.m. and 1.30 p.m. and Thursdays at 8 p.m. If you need more information about our church, our broadcast, or our Savior, please call us toll-free 1-800-JOHN-10-9. The organist and pianist is Mr. Dick Carroll. Your announcer has been Dr. D.A. Waite, pastor of the Bible for Today Baptist Church. We invite all you ladies to join us for our next broadcast, heard twice weekly over this same station, and hear Yvonne Waite and Just for Women.