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    Jabez: After, New Beginnings & The Excellence Club Christian Inspirational Fiction, #2
    Jabez: After, New Beginnings & The Excellence Club Christian Inspirational Fiction, #2
    Jabez: After, New Beginnings & The Excellence Club Christian Inspirational Fiction, #2
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    Jabez: After, New Beginnings & The Excellence Club Christian Inspirational Fiction, #2

    By Joy Ohagwu

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    A Christian Inspirational Series.

     

    "Raw. Real. And Redemptive. I cried when reading JB's story. This is such a great story!"

     

    Will he Succeed or Fail?

    "The only stock you'll ever sell is chik'n stock."

     

    Jabez Patrickson heard those gut-wrenching words dripping with sarcasm from his father at a tender age and knew the odds were strongly stacked against him. Not only will his father not support his goal to become a NY Stockbroker, he would stand against any chance of his succeeding. JB set his heart on his goal. But several odds stood in his way—lack of money, insufficient education, and moral support. Will he make it to the NY Stock Exchange as a stockbroker or will his dream be squashed before it begins? Will Louisville construction worker be the only job ever on his resume? Or with divine intervention, can he surmount the impossible odds to reach his dream? Be a part of his audience as he tells Candace his story for the first time.

     

    Jabez is Book 2 in the After, New Beginnings & The Excellence Club Christian Inspirational Series, by USA Today Bestselling & Award winning Author Joy Ohagwu. Her stories are richly twined in hope, faith, love, and family. Grab your next read from her catalogue of more than thirty books. Great reading awaits...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDivine Breakthrough Infinity
    Release dateAug 27, 2016
    ISBN9781536599312
    Jabez: After, New Beginnings & The Excellence Club Christian Inspirational Fiction, #2
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    Joy Ohagwu

    By God's grace, USA Today Bestselling Author Joy Ohagwu is an award-winning author of Christian Suspense and Romance & Christian Inspirational Fiction. Named by Book Riot in August 2019 as one of the 17 best Christian Fiction authors, she writes heartwarming stories with a healthy dose of suspense, divine inspiration, and happy endings. She credits Jesus with having turned her life around, averted multiple life derailments for her, and she's grateful to be writing stories that embody grace, hope, love, and second (and multiple) chances. She earned a Masters' degree in International Affairs, a Bachelors' degree in Political Science and has been honored with fourteen individual academic awards for excellence by her alma mater and her peers. She lives in the Washington DC capital region.

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      Jabez - Joy Ohagwu

      Jabez- After, New Beginnings & The Excellence Club Christian Inspirational Series (Book 2)

      JABEZ- AFTER, NEW BEGINNINGS & THE EXCELLENCE CLUB CHRISTIAN INSPIRATIONAL SERIES (BOOK 2)

      JOY OHAGWU

      CONTENTS

      NOTE TO THE READER

      JABEZ

      By

      Joy Ohagwu

      Copyright First Edition © 2016

      Joy Ohagwu

      CHRISTIAN FICTION TWINED IN FAITH, HOPE, AND LOVE.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or otherwise—without prior permission of the author, except as brief quotations in printed reviews.

      This novella is a work of fiction. Names, characters, incidents, and dialogues are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance or similarity to actual events or persons, living or dead, scenarios, or locales is entirely coincidental.

      This ebook is licensed for your enjoyment. Unauthorized sharing is prohibited. Please purchase your copy to read this story. Thank you.

      Except where otherwise stated, "Scripture taken from the New King James Version Bible ®,

      Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

      All glory to God

      Printed in the United States of America

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      NOTE TO THE READER

      Thank You, my Lord Jesus for this finished work!

      Thank you for reading JABEZ! I’m excited to share JB’s story in this novella with you. JABEZ is book 1.5 of the After Christian Inspirational Series. I meant to share this story with you right before publishing AFTER Book 2, but life got in the way (or it wasn’t God’s time for it to happen).

      I overcame several obstacles while writing this book.

      Today, I couldn’t be happier to share this story with you, praying from the depth of my heart that it brings you hope, faith in Christ, and total focus on Him and His plan for your life. God bless you!

      To JESUS, My Promise Keeper

      Foundational Scripture

      Who is he that says, and it comes to pass, when the LORD commands it not?-Lamentations 3:37

      JABEZ

      If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, let Israel say, if it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men rose up against us; then they would have swallowed us alive,- Psalm 124:1-3

      JB Patrickson rested his head on his plane seat’s headrest, glanced at the blue and clear-white clouds out the small window. He wondered how his wife of four hours would respond to the story he was about to tell—one which he’d told no one except the witnesses to the events in Kentucky many years back. Oh, God, this is such a risk. May she not walk away from me.

      How sad it would be if his marriage ended on day one or at all. He sent up another quiet prayer that she would see him as who he was now, not his past that no longer represented his identity. Then he followed it up with thanksgiving to God for rewriting his story permanently.

      JB, I’m here. I love you, and I won’t leave you, okay? Candace leaned in and softly spoke.

      JB loosely held her hand across the seat divider, rubbing his thumb over his new bride’s knuckles, and sighed in gratitude for her. He knew she both observed him and listened. But telling it like he needed to—as he lived it—would require shutting off the world by closing his eyes. So he did. I’ll start from the beginning, my love. It’s all about the fifty-two weeks that changed my life. My longest year. But things began to unravel a while before then, on Christmas Eve. Months of turmoil, followed by fifty-two weeks of watching God do the improbable. He shook his head. He could see everything again, in his mind’s eye, like a replay.…

      Jabez! Poppa called me, but the overwhelming sound of crashing objects blasting through my ears and stemming from the bedroom area spelled trouble. I sought where to hide in the cramped living room. Barely big enough for our couch and small TV, it left little room for maneuver. I scrambled past the wall separating the kitchen from the living room and stumbled forward beyond the hanging sole family photo we ever took—I was ten.

      I glanced at the big TV set on a brown, three-legged stand opposite where he usually sat to watch football while drinking and cursing. Good spot. It was large enough to hide behind, so I made a dash for it—before it was too late.

      Jabez! Where’s your momma?! Poppa’s voice raged again, and more crashing followed close to the dining area. You slick… The garble coming from his throat made it hard to tell whether he was drunk or high.

      Blood pounded in my ears. It was going to be a bad, bad night—for me and for Momma. I squeezed myself into a tight corner sandwiched between the TV box and the convergence of two walls behind it. Stepping on a tweezers wrapper from the last time I hid there and shrinking at the noise it made, I shuffled it aside with one foot and closed my eyes tight. Maybe he won’t find me. Maybe things won’t get bad. Yet I was unable to keep the sounds of his heavy, angered breathing from reaching my ears as his feet pounded nearer.

      I was surely safe. I assured myself. This was my perfect hiding spot. He’d never found me here. I curled my arms around myself, shut my eyes tightly,

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