{"id":38847,"date":"2026-01-11T22:00:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T05:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=38847"},"modified":"2026-01-13T00:26:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T07:26:40","slug":"260112-bold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/260112-bold\/","title":{"rendered":"Pray Bold Prayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">by Max Lucado<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-38850 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0112_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0112_1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0112_1-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>How bold are your prayers? As John Wesley crossed the Atlantic, he was reading in his cabin and became aware of heavy winds knocking the ship off course. He responded in prayer. A colleague wrote it down:<\/p>\n<p><em>Almighty and everlasting God\u2026Thou holdest the winds in thy fists and sittest upon the water floods\u2026command those winds and these waves that they obey Thee. Take us speedily and safely to the haven whither we would go.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Having offered the prayer, Wesley took up his book and continued reading. On deck his colleague found calm winds and the ship on course.\u00a0Wesley made no mention of the answered prayer.\u00a0His friend wrote,\u00a0<em>So fully did he expect to be heard that he took it for granted he\u00a0<strong>was<\/strong>\u00a0heard.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>How bold are\u00a0<strong><em>your<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0prayers?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read more\u00a0<a title=\"Glory Days: Living Your Promised Land Life Now\" href=\"https:\/\/maxlucado.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=bed511e434184985961d50fcb&amp;id=aaa3285c5a&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%3Daaa3285c5a%26e%3D0716428f80&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1767831341471000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1js2DZyRsT-g6SC07RJFk3\"><em>Glory Days: Living Your Promised Land Life Now<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-38849 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1-unnamed-3-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How bold are your prayers? As John Wesley crossed the Atlantic, he was reading in his cabin and became aware of heavy winds knocking the ship off course. He responded in prayer. A colleague wrote it down:<\/p>\n<p>Almighty and everlasting God\u2026Thou holdest the winds in thy fists and sittest upon the water floods\u2026command those winds and these waves that they obey Thee. Take us speedily and safely to the haven whither we would go.<\/p>\n<p>Having offered the prayer, Wesley took up his book and continued reading. On deck his colleague found calm winds and the ship on course.\u00a0Wesley made no mention of the answered prayer.\u00a0His friend wrote,\u00a0So fully did he expect to be heard that he took it for granted he\u00a0was\u00a0heard.<\/p>\n<p>How bold are\u00a0your\u00a0prayers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38847","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\/38847","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=38847"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38851,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38847\/revisions\/38851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}