Let Your Hand Be With Me | The Prayer of Jabez — Part 5

Jabez prays that the hand of the God he knows—the hand he has experienced—might accompany him into lands where he has never before set foot. Scripture shows that hand most clearly at the water. It parted the Red Sea, stopped the Jordan, and reached into the waves for a sinking Peter. And in the Jordan, the sinless Son of God went down into the water. He had no need of repentance, but He went to obey His Father and to show us the way. Preached ahead of our baptism service, this message sets out what baptism is and what it isn't. The water does not save, but neither is baptism optional. It is Jabez's prayer prayed with the whole body: "Lord, let Your hand be with me."