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<!--Generated by Squarespace Site Server v5.11.81 (http://www.squarespace.com/) on Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:57:02 GMT--><rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:rss="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:admin="http://webns.net/mvcb/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:cc="http://web.resource.org/cc/"><rss:channel rdf:about="http://www.thehealingofjabez.com/blog/"><rss:title>BLOG</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.thehealingofjabez.com/blog/</rss:link><rss:description></rss:description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><dc:date>2012-02-12T16:57:02Z</dc:date><admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://www.squarespace.com/">Squarespace Site Server v5.11.81 (http://www.squarespace.com/)</admin:generatorAgent><rss:items><rdf:Seq><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.thehealingofjabez.com/blog/2010/11/12/pain-from-brothers-andor-sisters.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.thehealingofjabez.com/blog/2010/10/18/the-prayer-of-jabez.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.thehealingofjabez.com/blog/2010/10/18/pain-from-a-father.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.thehealingofjabez.com/blog/2010/9/9/pain-from-a-mother.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.thehealingofjabez.com/blog/2010/8/10/the-power-of-a-name.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.thehealingofjabez.com/blog/2010/5/27/the-healing-retreat-messiahisrael-centricity.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.thehealingofjabez.com/blog/2010/1/21/haiti-speaks-healing-to-us.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.thehealingofjabez.com/blog/2009/12/30/corporate-healing.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.thehealingofjabez.com/blog/2009/12/2/what-does-a-gift-book-accomplish.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.thehealingofjabez.com/blog/2009/9/29/how-to-use-a-sword.html"/></rdf:Seq></rss:items></rss:channel><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.thehealingofjabez.com/blog/2010/11/12/pain-from-brothers-andor-sisters.html"><rss:title>Pain from Brothers and/or Sisters</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.thehealingofjabez.com/blog/2010/11/12/pain-from-brothers-andor-sisters.html</rss:link><dc:creator>John Mauck</dc:creator><dc:date>2010-11-12T22:56:10Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[Have you been hurt by your brother or sister?  Do you know anyone who has been hurt?]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.thehealingofjabez.com/blog/2010/10/18/the-prayer-of-jabez.html"><rss:title>THE PRAYER OF JABEZ</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.thehealingofjabez.com/blog/2010/10/18/the-prayer-of-jabez.html</rss:link><dc:creator>John Mauck</dc:creator><dc:date>2010-10-18T15:22:23Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.ccel.org/ccel/spurgeon/sermons17.xxvii.html"><span style="font-size: 150%;">A Sermon Delivered by C.H. Spurgeon</span></a>]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.thehealingofjabez.com/blog/2010/10/18/pain-from-a-father.html"><rss:title>PAIN FROM A FATHER</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.thehealingofjabez.com/blog/2010/10/18/pain-from-a-father.html</rss:link><dc:creator>John Mauck</dc:creator><dc:date>2010-10-18T15:19:38Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="font-size: 150%;">Have you been hurt by your father?</span>]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.thehealingofjabez.com/blog/2010/9/9/pain-from-a-mother.html"><rss:title>PAIN FROM A MOTHER</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.thehealingofjabez.com/blog/2010/9/9/pain-from-a-mother.html</rss:link><dc:creator>John Mauck</dc:creator><dc:date>2010-09-09T15:07:37Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="font-size: 150%;">Have you been hurt by your mother?</span>]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.thehealingofjabez.com/blog/2010/8/10/the-power-of-a-name.html"><rss:title>THE POWER OF A NAME</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.thehealingofjabez.com/blog/2010/8/10/the-power-of-a-name.html</rss:link><dc:creator>John Mauck</dc:creator><dc:date>2010-08-10T16:40:37Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[Have you have been “named”?  Not just our given names, but the words and attitudes of those around us shape us   Have you been called “stupid” or “ugly” by classmates?  Did your family label you “weak” or “incompetent”?  Do the words “unmarried,” “drop-out,” “fatty” or “divorced” knifes your heart?  The hurt to Jabez cut as deep or deeper.  Understanding how deeply he was wounded is the first step to receiving the same healing Jabez received.]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.thehealingofjabez.com/blog/2010/5/27/the-healing-retreat-messiahisrael-centricity.html"><rss:title>The Healing Retreat--Messiah/Israel centricity</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.thehealingofjabez.com/blog/2010/5/27/the-healing-retreat-messiahisrael-centricity.html</rss:link><dc:creator>John Mauck</dc:creator><dc:date>2010-05-27T22:17:56Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[Last weekend we held a retreat out at LaHacienda in Freeport, Illinois, to teach on and discuss how The Healing of Jabez can be used to bring healing to individuals and be used to equip groups like teenagers in a church or a home study group to have their own healing ministry. We talked about chaplains and Steven Ministers using the book. Can the Healing of Jabez be a gift from those passing on to the next life to those who have yet to enter into the Eternal Life Portal of which Jesus spoke? (Jn.10:7)
   Because the attendees were well acquainted with the basics of healing, I decided to teach on some more advanced ideas. One is Messiah centricity. Take a look at the account of the Canaanite woman in Mt. 18 and Mk 7. It seems that Jesus first allows her to exercise her persistent faith and humility. The confession which brings healing however, is one that I will call Messiah/Israel centricity. When she reminds Jesus that his ministry, though centered in Israel, extends outward, her daughter is healed! OTHERWISE JESUS WOULD HAVE HAD TO DENY HIMSELF.]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.thehealingofjabez.com/blog/2010/1/21/haiti-speaks-healing-to-us.html"><rss:title>Haiti speaks healing to US</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.thehealingofjabez.com/blog/2010/1/21/haiti-speaks-healing-to-us.html</rss:link><dc:creator>John Mauck</dc:creator><dc:date>2010-01-21T17:50:18Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[I have been getting multiple daily updates on conditions in Haiti from Jim Glynn, President of Heart of God Ministries which has been serving the Lord in Haiti for almost 20 years. I post below his comments from Jan.21 to see if we can answer this question: How will we allow God to use Haiti and Haitians to heal us?


"After stopping at Richard's garage, now taken over by Doctors Without Borders, we drove on through the Carrefour district of Port-au-Prince, west 20 miles to the city of Leogane. We found the city devastated, and more people filling every empty square with tents. In places where space is at a premium, people lined up tents along the boulevard medians. Only about four feet wide, each home-made tent in a single-file line looked like some kind of fair booths or camping retreat. Yet this little area between two curbs, with cars swirling dust as they zip by in each direction, is their only home.

In the center of Leogane, across the street from a huge tent camp in the main square, stood the oldest church in Haiti, St. Rose of Lima, five hundred years old. It dated from a time long before the French or slaves came to this country, an outpost established by Spanish priests. Only two walls are left standing. We interviewed the priest who was standing outside. It was a sad contrast to the words of hope, the prophecies of restoration, and the daily worship and praise we have encountered with other Christians in tent camps and on the streets. The priest told us that Haiti has lost all hope, and that there is no sign of how anything can be restored. He said, "They are bringing aid in the form of food, but who will rebuild our churches and houses?" He was concerned that if anyone sent aid to rebuild Catholic churches to the Haitian government, it might not reach its intended purpose.

I felt a sadness for this man of God who seemed to have lost faith at a time when it is most needed. I did my best to encourage him and pray that God will shine a light of hope into his heart, the hope which we know is our certainty of all things working to good for those who love the Lord.

Everywhere we go we see destroyed churches. Seeing this from heaven's perspective, I can only say that now the church will really have to prove that it is a people, not a building. I'm so encouraged when I see worshippers gathering in tent camps and other public places. Driving back from Leogane, we were following a truckfull of people who were all singing praise songs, lifting their hands and voices to the Lord, such a stark contrast to the physical realities before our eyes. 

George got a rather novel idea. We rented three motorcycles with their drivers. A person behind each driver: one reporting into a wireless mic and two recording it on film. They did this while driving through the most devastated parts of the city.

We realized that the extent of the destruction is not totally visible to casual observation while driving down the street. It can appear that three houses in a row are untouched, and then there's only a pile of rubble in the place of the fourth house. But on more careful observation, the three houses still standing may have roofs collapsed to the inside, walls so badly cracked and shaken that a normal storm might knock them down, or the back of the house, not visible to the front, completely blown off. 

We saw a large crowd of people blocking an intersection, and realized that the two UN trucks next to them was for a distribution of food. Eight days after the earthquake, people told us that this was only the second food distribution, the first having occurred yesterday. Still we could not say that there was any unrest or even disorderliness, although from time to time you'd hear someone complaining rather loudly. They formed lines as directed by Spanish-speaking soldiers (don't know where they were from) and walked in single file to receive plastic bags with ready-to-eat meals and water. 

I'm not sure I understand how one calorie-laden meal, or one days' food at best, can sustain the people. They all say they are hungry, and yet we're amazed how, so far, we don't see any violence. Right there in the tent camps and along some of the streets are women cooking rice, beans, and chicken, while other women are selling every kind of fruit and vegetable. You'd think maybe some hungry gang might come by and simply rob those merchants, yet we see nothing of the kind. We can only pray that this overall peaceful spirit will prevail in the days to come.

Back on the streets of Port-au-Prince, as day turned to dusk, we could see people who have no tents, but only a piece of carpet or a blanket, taking over intersections and laying out their "beds" like a mosaic covering the street. We heard a news report that said 20,000 survivors who need surgery but can't get it are dying every day. Many doctors are coming from other countries, and tent clinics like the one we saw at Richard's garage property are popping up here and there, and in some places, like the Port-au-Prince soccer stadium, large spaces are being converted into hospitals. Yet there's a great unmet need for surgeons and the possibility of doing surgeries, and at 20,000 loses per day, the death toll of this earthquake is rising at a terrifying rate.

It takes all the faith God supplies to look past what our human eyes see in this situation and to look from heaven's perspective. Some people might say, "Well, the Haitians are so poor and have so few possessions to begin with; so it's probably easier for them to lose everything and have to live on the streets." Yet it seems to me that when one has little, that little becomes extremely precious. Is it because of our great quantity of possessions in the U.S. that we think it would be so much harder for us to cope with a situation like this? Here's what I wonder: If I were to lose everything and have to live outside with my family, would I spend every evening in worship, prayer, and regular fasting with other Christians? Would I ride on the back of a truck, singing praise to the Lord while hunger and thirst pains were crying out from my insides? Would my life with my Savior sustain me and give me hope for resurrection when all my human eyes could see is death?

My own call to Haiti is to preach a gospel of renewal and revival to the Church of all denominations. Now is when that message is needed more than ever. Now is the time for the best of faith and hope and promise that we have seen among some of the Christians here to be spread to the whole nation. First to restore the Church of Jesus Christ and be done once and for all with division, jealousy, love of position, defense of doctrines that separate and have no basis in the mind of Christ, and bowing before those who have the largest churches and greatest connection to American wealth. Then for a repentant, humble, purified, holy Church to serve the nation and break the hearts of Haiti's people, until Satan is defeated in this place he calls his own, until a fire of revival draws the restoration miracles of God, until the world shakes with the spiritual earthquake that will one day pour out of this Pearl of the Caribbean".

Jim Glynn, President
Heart of God Ministries

Rev 3:17 You say, 'I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.' But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.
 18.    I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see.
 19. 	Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest, and repent.
 20. 	Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.thehealingofjabez.com/blog/2009/12/30/corporate-healing.html"><rss:title>Corporate Healing</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.thehealingofjabez.com/blog/2009/12/30/corporate-healing.html</rss:link><dc:creator>John Mauck</dc:creator><dc:date>2009-12-30T16:14:23Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[What’s important in law and life is not only the “what” but also the “why”.  At Mauck & Baker our “what” is to practice law with all the skill and energy we can marshal to serve our clients.  Our “why” is to build God’s Kingdom.  This podcast will tell you more about that “why”.

The portion about healing APPLIES TO CORPORATE HEALING (i.e. Church Splits) as well as to individual healing!]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.thehealingofjabez.com/blog/2009/12/2/what-does-a-gift-book-accomplish.html"><rss:title>What does a gift book accomplish?</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.thehealingofjabez.com/blog/2009/12/2/what-does-a-gift-book-accomplish.html</rss:link><dc:creator>John Mauck</dc:creator><dc:date>2009-12-02T22:05:19Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[Believers love to give Bibles and Christian books to each other and to those who have yet to encounter Jesus. What should they give, to whom, when and how in order to make the gift effectual?? Can we answer these questions by considering 3 principles in how God gives gifts?
    First Principal:God gives innumerable blessings to us all: life, creation, gifts of the Spirit and most notably salvation through the gift of His son. Some of these gifts---life, sunshine, rain, natural healing of the body---we get without asking and even sometimes in spite of what we want. Other gifts---salvation, tongues, discerning of spirits etc.---are primarily given as a result of our decision to ask for them (sometimes persistently) and to receive them.
     In other words, God does not force us to accept Jesus or any of His special gifts. Nevertheless God is (thank God!) persistent and creative in the many ways He seeks to persuade us to receive salvation and spiritual gifts. Should we not have the same heart? 
     Second principle: I have freely given well over a thousand copies of The Healing of Jabez to pastors and others. One guiding principle in my giving has been Mt. 10:8:
 	"Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give"
      However, Jesus never said to give to those who did not yet want a gift. In fact, Mt. 7:6 teaches the opposite: 	 	 
         
"Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you". 

Third principle: My father gave me keys to the car only when I was 16, licensed and, in his view, mature enough not to kill myself (or others!). God gives gifts at the time when they become an appropriate blessing: 
         
      "But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil". Heb. 5:14
      
       How do we apply these principles in deciding when to give an "Intro to Jesus" or "Healing" book such as The Healing of Jabez? Yes. First, pray and then read the book yourself then pray again so you know what you are giving and if it's teaching addresses the perceived needs of the person you would give it to! 
      Find out if the potential donee is looking for healing. Pastors tell me that visitors to their church almost always are in pain and seeking healing and/or answers, So that is a receptive readership. Ask the person you are thinking of giving the book to if you may pray for them. If they say "no" then hold off. If they say "yes" then that is a good sign of receptivity. 
       We'd love some more wisdom from you saints on how to effectively give God's gifts.]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.thehealingofjabez.com/blog/2009/9/29/how-to-use-a-sword.html"><rss:title>How to use a sword</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.thehealingofjabez.com/blog/2009/9/29/how-to-use-a-sword.html</rss:link><dc:creator>John Mauck</dc:creator><dc:date>2009-09-29T22:22:38Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[The Healing of Jabez is a sword,the Bible is The Sword. Hebrews 4:12 from the New Living Translation is paraphrased/translated thus:
   
"For the word of God is full of living power. It is sharper than the sharpest knife, cutting deep into our innermost thoughts and desires. It exposes us for what we really are."

 Swords need to be weilded correctly and with training. They are dangerous weapons which can bring harm or healing. This post is to instruct on how to use The Healing of Jabez sword that God has given us. 
    First let us recognize that much of its power comes from the fact that it is an elucidation of scripture and thus contains a greater power if use correctly and in harmony with the Holy Spirit. Secondly let us bear in mind that the scriptural/Godly sword is not used to kill but to reveal truth. A modern day comparison is the scalpel which in the hand of a skilled surgeon can cut out a tumor by separating it from healthy tissue. Third, let us remember that a good doctor listens to the patient, performs appropriate tests and does not cut unless he or she recognises where the cancer/disease is located.
     With those thoughts in mind:
        1. The Healing of Jabez is for those in pain or those who are learning how to treat pain.
        2. Ask permission before prescribing it. For example, "I have a book about a man who experienced a great deal of pain from those closest to him. It explains how he got through that pain and found healing and prosperity in the process. Would you like to read it? Its about 80 pages" Its okay to display the book at this point. Let the Holy Spirit do the convincing. If the hurting person says "No". Put the book back in your purse/pocket and continue to pray for the God to connect you to someone who is ready to receive healing from him.
        3. Good candidates?
        a. visitors to your church;
        b. attenders at a funeral, especially if the deceased was a follower of Jesus. A Christian Funeral Gift. 
        c. To those who ask. I have already given several copies to folks who asked about it because The Healer or the name Jabezcaught their eye.
        d.Personal friends, colleagues, family whom you know to be in pain. I've often heard people tell me: I don't need Jesus, I have cancer/am getting a divorce/need a job! They are in pain and think that solving their immediate problem will end their deep hurt. The Healing of Jabez is for such folks because it is written to connect the reader first to Jabez and empathize with the rejection and pain he grew up with. Then Jabez connects to Jesus.]]></content:encoded></rss:item></rdf:RDF>
