Until You Become Dissatisfied.

Many of us have become too comfortable with what life has to offer. We settle. We adjust. We forget that there was once a man in Scripture called Jabez. The Bible says he was more honorable than his brothers, yet nothing in his life reflected that honor. There was a contradiction between his reality and his identity.

Many of us are in that same place — comfortable in contradiction. We are called peace but in turbulence, wealth yet in abject poverty. We don’t look beyond what life has handed us to see what God can do when we dare to pray certain kinds of prayers.

I once heard someone say, “I don’t want much from life. If I can just pay my children’s fees and have enough to eat, that's okay.” We forget that our words form our world.

Jabez’s mother birthed him in pain and named him after it. Even though he was honorable, his life carried a label that fought his destiny. But one day, Jabez became unsatisfied. One day, he said “Enough, this can't go on!”  he cried out to the God of Israel for a change.

1 Chronicles 4:9–10 (NKJV)
9 Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers, and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.”
10 And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, “Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!” So God granted him what he requested.

Beloved, until you become dissatisfied, nothing changes. A life of mediocrity is not God’s plan for you. A life of “just enough” is not your portion. You are God’s masterpiece, designed to reveal His goodness on the earth.

Heaven is waiting for you to get tired of average. Heaven is waiting for you to roar in prayer until angels are dispatched with your answers.

Until you become uncomfortable and cry out, the yoke will not fall. Like a dog that outgrows the chain and shakes until it breaks loose, you must engage in violent, persistent warfare prayer until you hear the chains fall, until you see the shift.

Consider the prayer of Jabez — and pray it until something breaks. Do not grow weary. Stand strong in faith until God answers.

Stay revived!