The Boaz Prayer: Ruth: Romance, Redemption and Restoration
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Dr Tai A Adeboboye
Dr Tai A. Adeboboye is the Lead Pastor of Wilmar Heights Baptist Church, a growing multicultural church in the heart of Scarborough ON. Dr. Tai and his wife Marian are the co-founders of Fresh Manna International Ministries reaching thousands of people with the gospel message in the GTA and Nigeria through their weekly radio broadcast. They live in North York, Ontario with their four children.
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The Boaz Prayer - Dr Tai A Adeboboye
Acknowledgements
To God be the glory for giving me the grace and provision to write this book. Truly it has been a dream come true!
Also, I will be amiss if I fail to acknowledge several amazing people in my life who have been my cheerleaders throughout my running the race
of putting pen on paper to share what the Lord has been teaching me through the lives of two extraordinary individuals in the Bible—Ruth and Boaz.
Thank you, Marian, my loving wife of 21 years. You have stood by me through thick and thin. What an amazing woman you are!
To my four precious children, Adam, Naomi, Daniel and Isaiah, I thank God for you all daily. You have been a source of inspiration to me in all that I do. Thank you for your patience during the writing of this book.
To my loving congregation, Wilmar Heights Baptist Church, your support and encouragement in affirming the call of God in my life will always be remembered. Thank you for experiencing the truth of the Boaz prayer with me while the message of the book of Ruth was preached to you. I am grateful you spurred me on to write this book. I love you all!
And to all the men and women who are helping to rebuild Wilmar for the glory of God, thank you!
Introduction
Jesus admonishes us to "Watch and pray" (Matthew 26:41, NIV). The book you are holding in your hand is about taking your prayer life to a whole new level. I am talking about praying a Boaz-like prayer. You have probably heard of the prayer of Jabez. But have you heard of the Boaz prayer? The Boaz prayer is a little prayer like the prayer of Jabez, found in the book of Ruth.
Before I introduce you to this awesome prayer that has truly revolutionized my prayer life, there are two important warnings we need to watch
for in the book of Ruth just as the Lord Jesus instructed us to watch and pray.
These two warnings are found in the first chapter of the book of Ruth and are dealt with in the first two chapters of this book.
The rest of the chapters will encourage you to come on an incredible adventure of praying the Boaz prayer daily for yourself, your family and friends. Simply put, the Boaz prayer is a prayer for God’s favour, to be at the right place at the right time, to meet the right person, with the right provision, which will lead to the right partnership, resulting in the providential plan of God for your life. Isn’t that an incredible prayer to pray?
Boaz prayed it for Ruth, and as she stood in agreement with the prayer she saw God’s transforming power turn her trials into triumph and her mess into a message of romance, redemption and restoration.
I invite you to join me and many others for a personal encounter as we pray the Boaz prayer together. Will you?
1. Decisions That Determine Destiny
The book of Ruth is one of those priceless gems you’ll find in the strangest of places, hidden in the deep, rugged, dark corners of a place called nowhere.
But like a rose trampled on the ground, like an oasis in the middle of a parched desert, the book of Ruth adds elegance, grace, opulence and romance to an otherwise depressing situation.
It’s in this exquisite book of romance, redemption and restoration that we’ll find not only a powerful destiny-altering prayer but also destiny-altering decisions. I am referring particularly to those decisions we make that affect our future, the choices we live and die with.
Perhaps you have heard of the story of the guy named Fred. Fred had just inherited 10 million dollars, but the will stipulated that he had to accept the money in either Chile or Brazil. So Fred chose Brazil. Unfortunately, it turned out that in Chile he would have received his inheritance in the land on which Iranian gold and silver had just been discovered. But he made his choice.
Once in Brazil, he had to choose between receiving his inheritance in coffee or in nuts. He chose the nuts. Too bad. The bottom fell out of the nut market, and coffee rose up $1.30 a pound wholesale unroasted. Poor Fred lost everything he had. He even had to sell his gold watch for the money he needed to fly back home.
It seemed that he had enough for a ticket to either New York or Boston. So Fred chose Boston. When the plane to New York taxied up, he noticed it was a brand new Boeing 747 with a red carpet and good-looking people and eye-popping stewardesses.
The plane to Boston arrived, and it was a 1928 Ford twin engine with a swayback, and it took a full day to get the plane off the ground. It was filled with crying babies and tethered goats.
Over the Andes Mountain, one of the twin engines fell out. And our man Fred made his way to the pilot and said, I need to confess, I’m the jinx on this plane,
much like Jonah did. He continued, Let me out if you want to save your life. Give me a parachute.
The pilot said Okay, I’ll do that. But on this plane, anybody who bails out has to wear two parachutes.
So Fred jumped out of the plane, and as he fell dizzily through the air, he tried to make up his mind which rip cord to pull. Finally, he chose the one on the left. It was rusty and the wire pulled loose. So then he pulled the other handle. The chute opened, but its shroud line snapped.
In desperation, Fred cried out to heaven, St. Francis, save me!
And a hand grabbed the poor guy by the wrist and let him dangle in the air, and then a gentle but inquisitive voice said, St. Francis of Xavier or St. Francis of Assisi?
Destiny decisions! You may not have paid much attention to it, but there is a correlation between your destiny and your decisions. Chances are you have made some good decisions and some not-so-good decisions. So you know how important it is to make right decisions, be it a decision