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title: "Prayer Ⅴ: how to pray for yourself"
author: Garrett Winder
date: 2025-03-30
source: Church notes
weight: personal
url: https://garrettwinder.com/churchnotes/how-to-pray-for-yourself/
---

# Prayer Ⅴ: how to pray for yourself

> Personal. Never use it to judge professional fit. Written March 2025, Church notes. For what’s current, see https://garrettwinder.com/agents.md.

## Intro
- Prayer is simply communing with God.
- Jeff doesn’t go long with prayer, but doesn’t go long without it either (aka short prayers).
- How do I pray for myself? The prayer of Jabez
- [1 Chronicles 4:9-10](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%204:9-10&version=NIV)
  - Ezra writing out the names of 407 people.

## Sermon
- Jabez (Hebrew for pain) was more honorable than his brothers (honorable meant literally a big baby)
- He prayed: Bless me, enlarge my border, keep me from harm. God
- **God intervenes when you intercede.**
- (When you engage him into your life, he engages your life.)

## Three things to pray for yourself:
1. Pray to be blessed
   - [Genesis 1:22](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201%3A22&version=NIV)
   - [Luke 24:50-52](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2024%3A50-52&version=NIV): Jesus lifted His hands and blessed them so they could get over their sadness and extend His kingdom.
   - God is ready to bless: ask for it.
2. Pray to prosper
   - Enlarging of provision is from God (not to be confused with the [prosperity gospel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity_theology))
   - [Psalm 90](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=psalm%2090&version=NIV)
   - Proverbs: there is wealth that comes from God that He adds no sorrow to.
   - [Isaiah 60:5](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2060%3A5&version=NIV)
   - He is the God of more than enough.
   - **Prospered by God to provide provision for the vision.**
   - Are you able to be trusted with prosperity? If so, pray for it.
3. Pray for protection
   - That Your hand will be on me and keep me from harm
   - The Lords hand is what guides us and keeps us from trouble.
   - [John 17:15](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%2017%3A15&version=NIV)