{"id":38329,"date":"2025-12-01T22:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T05:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=38329"},"modified":"2025-11-25T21:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T04:12:07","slug":"251202-against","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/251202-against\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Can Be Against Us?"},"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-38331 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/251202_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/251202_1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/251202_1-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Paul asks the question in Romans 8:31, \u201cIf God is for us, who can be against us?\u201d The question isn\u2019t simply, \u201cWho can be against you?\u201d You could answer that one. Who is against you? Disease, inflation, corruption, exhaustion. Calamities confront, fears imprison. Were Paul\u2019s question, \u201cWho can be against us?\u201d we could list our foes much easier than we could fight them.<\/p>\n<p><em>God<\/em>\u00a0is for us. God\u00a0<em>is<\/em>\u00a0for us. God is\u00a0<em>for<\/em>\u00a0us. Your parents may have forgotten you, your teachers may have neglected you, your siblings may be ashamed of you. But within reach of your prayers is the maker of the oceans \u2013 God! God is for you. Not may be, not has been, not was, but God\u00a0<em>is<\/em>! He is for\u00a0<em>you<\/em>. Today. At this hour. At this minute. As you hear this, he is with you. God is for you.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"CToWUd\" src=\"https:\/\/ci3.googleusercontent.com\/meips\/ADKq_NYaAHCKALpHywaTtzrm8NxFrxMSf4vLZycr9MOW3N7OwMNLXb9ITHXPIvJaDKJKe_9zlqnFArPXwyEqmwjHAWBQM3iFmGqGMmOc3Krq_KYAgEVPXmZD1tmWW853tyVE=s0-d-e1-ft#https:\/\/maxlucado.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/LucadoInspirationalReader_L1.jpg\" alt=\"The Lucado Inspirational Reader\" width=\"100\" height=\"132.87037037\" border=\"0\" data-bit=\"iit\" \/>Read more\u00a0<a title=\"The Lucado Inspirational Reader\" href=\"https:\/\/maxlucado.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=bed511e434184985961d50fcb&amp;id=2b48502b75&amp;e=0716428f80\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/maxlucado.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Dbed511e434184985961d50fcb%26id%3D2b48502b75%26e%3D0716428f80&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1762998269695000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1217jxyrNhljQ5visk7aC7\"><em>The Lucado Inspirational Reader<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul asks the question in Romans 8:31, \u201cIf God is for us, who can be against us?\u201d The question isn\u2019t simply, \u201cWho can be against you?\u201d You could answer that one. Who is against you? Disease, inflation, corruption, exhaustion. Calamities confront, fears imprison. Were Paul\u2019s question, \u201cWho can be against us?\u201d we could list our foes much easier than we could fight them.<\/p>\n<p>God is for us. God is for us. God is for us. Your parents may have forgotten you, your teachers may have neglected you, your siblings may be ashamed of you. But within reach of your prayers is the maker of the oceans \u2013 God! God is for you. Not may be, not has been, not was, but God is! He is for you. Today. At this hour. At this minute. As you hear this, he is with you. God is for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38329","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\/38329","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=38329"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38332,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38329\/revisions\/38332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}