The Lord's Prayer & The Prayer of Jabez

Thanks to my cousin-in-law (MK) who had given me a book - “The Prayer of Jabez” by Bruce Wilkinson for reading.

I would like to parallel The Jabez' Prayer from the Old Testament to the Lord’s Prayer from the New Testament of the Holy Bible, to extract their commonality in concept.

The Jabez' Prayer (1 Chronicles 4:10):
Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, "Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain." And God granted his request.

The Lord’s Prayer (Matthew 6:9-13):
"This, then, is how you should pray: " 'Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.'

One can see that the prayer of Jabez, a religious man, very much resembled the prayer from the teaching of Jesus, God our Lord. Jabez’ prayer was answered by God. Please note that a prayer is NOT to be answered by the person who prays. To clarify, please refer to the following Bible verse, and I think our prayer should be originated from:

For we are God’s workmanships, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
(Ephesians 2:10)

We have a life long journey to seek, search, find, plan and execute our works on earth by communicating with God our Lord; while doing that, we also need to ask for our God’s power to separate our mind, emotion and actions from evil.

• The Jabez' Prayer: Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, "Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory!
• The Lord’s Prayer: Our Father in heaven hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

• The Jabez' Prayer: Let your hand be with me
• The Lord’s Prayer: Give us today our daily bread

• The Jabez' Prayer: keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain
• The Lord’s Prayer: Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one