Wisdom of Jabez

I think there is a lot of wisdom in the prayer given by Jabez in I Chronicles.

"God’s bounty is limited only by us, not by His resources, power, or willingness to give. Jabez was blessed simply because he refused to let any obstacle, person, or pinion loom larger than God’s nature. And God’s nature is to bless."

Bruce Wilkinson, The Prayer of Jabez: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life

1 Chronicles 4:9-10 (New American Standard Bible)

⁹Jabez was more honorable than his brothers, and his mother named him Jabez saying, "Because I bore him with pain."

¹⁰Now Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, "Oh that You would bless me indeed and enlarge my border, and that Your hand might be with me, and that You would keep me from harm that it may not pain me!" And God granted him what he requested.