{"id":40302,"date":"2026-05-13T22:00:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T05:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=40302"},"modified":"2026-05-13T15:01:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T22:01:05","slug":"26-0514","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-0514\/","title":{"rendered":"A Listening Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">by Max Lucado<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-40304 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/260514_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/260514_1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/260514_1-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet he who has ears to hear, use them.\u201d Eight times in the Gospels and eight times in the book of Revelation we are reminded that it\u2019s not enough just to have ears\u2014it\u2019s necessary to use them.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus spent regular time with God, praying and listening. Luke 5:16 (NIV) tells us, \u201cJesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.\u201d If Jesus, the Son of God, the sinless Savior of humankind, thought it worthwhile to clear his calendar to pray, wouldn\u2019t we be wise to do the same? Jesus also spent regular time in God\u2019s Word. Three times in the wilderness temptation he used the Word of God to repel the attack of Satan.<\/p>\n<p>If we are to be just like Jesus, then we need to imitate his habits of prayer and Bible reading.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40228\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1-unnamed-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" \/>Read more\u00a0<a title=\"Just Like Jesus\" href=\"https:\/\/maxlucado.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=bed511e434184985961d50fcb&amp;id=966e2e31ff&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%3D966e2e31ff%26e%3D0716428f80&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1778191186761000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1CmJLwkpeSQJsFrX_w1C0p\"><em>Just Like Jesus<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLet he who has ears to hear, use them.\u201d Eight times in the Gospels and eight times in the book of Revelation we are reminded that it\u2019s not enough just to have ears\u2014it\u2019s necessary to use them.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus spent regular time with God, praying and listening. Luke 5:16 (NIV) tells us, \u201cJesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.\u201d If Jesus, the Son of God, the sinless Savior of humankind, thought it worthwhile to clear his calendar to pray, wouldn\u2019t we be wise to do the same? Jesus also spent regular time in God\u2019s Word. Three times in the wilderness temptation he used the Word of God to repel the attack of Satan.<\/p>\n<p>If we are to be just like Jesus, then we need to imitate his habits of prayer and Bible reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40302","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\/40302","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=40302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40305,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40302\/revisions\/40305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}