{"id":39326,"date":"2026-02-22T22:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T05:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=39326"},"modified":"2026-02-22T21:30:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T04:30:45","slug":"260223-gaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/260223-gaze\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep Your Gaze on Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2018Lord, if it is You, command me to come to You on the water.\u2019 So He said, \u2018Come’\u201d (Matthew 14:28-29 NKJV). For a few heart-stilling moments described in Matthew 14 Peter did the impossible. He defied every law of gravity and nature. Then he shifted his attention away from Jesus, and he sank like a brick. Give the storm waters more attention than the Storm Walker, and get ready to do the same.<\/p>\n

We can\u2019t choose whether or not storms come. But we can choose where we stare during a storm. Do whatever it takes to keep your gaze on Jesus. Courage is always a possibility. Feed your fears, and your faith will starve. Feed your faith, and your fears will starve. Storms are not an option, but fear is.<\/p>\n

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Read more\u00a0Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2018Lord, if it is You, command me to come to You on the water.\u2019 So He said, \u2018Come’\u201d (Matthew 14:28-29 NKJV). For a few heart-stilling moments described in Matthew 14 Peter did the impossible. He defied every law of gravity and nature. Then he shifted his attention away from Jesus, and he sank like a brick. Give the storm waters more attention than the Storm Walker, and get ready to do the same.<\/p>\n

We can\u2019t choose whether or not storms come. But we can choose where we stare during a storm. Do whatever it takes to keep your gaze on Jesus. Courage is always a possibility. Feed your fears, and your faith will starve. Feed your faith, and your fears will starve. Storms are not an option, but fear is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39326","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\/39326","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=39326"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39362,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39326\/revisions\/39362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}