A Jabez Appointment
September 13, 2015 at 1:12 am,
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THE JABEZ APPOINTMENT is one of the providential ways God sends a message to us. There are five ways He communicates with us but I want to focus on this unusual way which cannot be fabricated by any of us....and serves as a very strong and irrefutable message to our hearts that we are tracking with God. The term A Jabez Appointment is coined I believe by Bruce Wilkinson in his book The Prayer of Jabez. Quite simply, it is where God arranges for you to meet a person, at a particular time and place, either for you to bless that person or the other way around....or it could be reciprocal.
I have had a few of those appointments and one in particular is jaw dropping!! I have an entire "Prayer Letter" on it.
But that is not the one I want to talk about now. My most recent JA ( Jabez Appointment) was in Trinidad. It was started out Sabbath September 5 with my attending the Good News SDA church. The girls wanted to go to different places. So the same morning I was impressed to go with Debbie Ann to Good News and Andy went to USC with Dereka-Lynn.
I told you about the sermon already and how it impacted me. It was POINT ON and what captured and riveted me was the fact that the Pastor's sharing was like a continuation of what I had been mulling over in my quiet time earlier in the morning.
In the midst of the preaching I wrote a note on my IPad to Debs which said: I WAS TO BE HERE!!!
I made an appointment to meet with the Pastor. Busy as he was, he told me he would schedule an appointment and he did. Last Monday, he me invited into his spacious office on the USC campus.
For nearly an hour we sat and talked and it was.....not sure what word to use here....deep, energizing, chilling.....because as we chatted back and forth I knew it was not by accident I was speaking with him and we were sharing experiences.
We prayed to start and end our conversation. So prayer book ended a conversation that was most memorable for both of us.
How I further know that our meeting was meant to be is that he told me he was really could have been elsewhere. He had an invitation to be overseas at a big gathering but he declined it as he had that appointment with Good News first. I took a copy of the publication along and a very quick perusal of it and its endorsers propelled him to secure one.
I was impressed to share one of my favourite prayer letters with him. One thing I have certainly understood is that what one person will see spiritual worth and value in something and another person will trample upon.
In the early stages of my writing and sharing the prayer letters I came to understand in a new way what Matthew 7:6 meant as it related to my experience and my excitement at sharing my journey with God. Everyone cannot relate to spiritual pearls. Naively, as admitted in my writing I did not understand this.
But with Pastor " Mark" ( Pseudonym) that was not the case at all.
Where it goes from here, only God knows but as this little chapter of the journey unfolds, I will keep those interested updated.
Keep following the lead of the Holy Spirit as you chart paths for many of us to follow in Christ.
Thank you.