When Bruce Wilkinson’s little book The Prayer of Jabez made a splash five years ago with its message of possibility thinking and prosperous ministry, I got to thinking: had anyone famous in church history also preached on Jabez? Had they reached the same conclusions as Wilkinson? Enter the prolific, and Puritan-inspired, Charles Spurgeon:
Spurgeon on Jabez
What history’s most prolific preacher said, in 1871, about the Prayer of Jabez.
Chris Armstrong
As we have recently been reminded by Bruce Wilkinson’s best-selling book on the subject, Jabez—a man mentioned only once in the Bible—prayed for God to “enlarge his territory,” and God granted his request.
Wilkinson, founder and former president of Walk Thru the Bible Ministries, interprets “territory” as “opportunity for evangelistic ministry.” Arguably, no person in the history of the church has had a larger “territory” than the 19th-century British preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon. Continue reading
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