{"id":37826,"date":"2025-10-19T22:00:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T05:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=37826"},"modified":"2025-10-14T14:42:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T21:42:31","slug":"251020-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/251020-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"When Your Heart Needs Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: right;\">by Max Lucado<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-37828 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/251020_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/251020_1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/251020_1-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jesus offers this assurance: \u201cPeace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid\u201d (John 14:27 NKJV).<\/p>\n<p>Jesus contrasts two types of peace\u2014the peace the world offers and the peace he offers. The peace the world offers depends upon circumstances. If the weather is right, if the traffic is light, if the stock market is up. If\u2026If\u2026If. Exchange\u00a0<em>if<\/em>\u00a0peace for\u00a0<em>his<\/em>\u00a0peace. We can have the peace of Jesus. We can uproot thoughts of catastrophe and replace them with truths like this one: \u201cThe peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts\u201d (Philippians 4:7 NKJV).<\/p>\n<p>When your heart needs peace, trust God.<\/p>\n<h3>God Made Our Brains. He Can Retrain Our Brains.<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37576 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/time.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" \/>Stuck in your head? Hounded by regrets? Weighed down by worry? Change is possible! The thoughts that have characterized your past need not characterize the rest of your life.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<em><strong>Tame Your Thoughts<\/strong><\/em>, Max explores three key thought-management tools and then applies them to the most common thought problems: worry, guilt, anxiety, and other types of mental quicksand that threaten to trap us. God loves us too much to let us lead a life marked by poor thinking. He has not left us alone in this battle of the mind.<\/p>\n<p>shared with permission<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus offers this assurance: \u201cPeace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid\u201d (John 14:27 NKJV).<\/p>\n<p>Jesus contrasts two types of peace\u2014the peace the world offers and the peace he offers. The peace the world offers depends upon circumstances. If the weather is right, if the traffic is light, if the stock market is up. If\u2026If\u2026If. Exchange\u00a0if\u00a0peace for\u00a0his\u00a0peace. We can have the peace of Jesus. We can uproot thoughts of catastrophe and replace them with truths like this one: \u201cThe peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts\u201d (Philippians 4:7 NKJV).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37826"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37829,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37826\/revisions\/37829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}