{"id":40584,"date":"2026-06-08T22:07:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T05:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=40584"},"modified":"2026-06-08T22:11:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T05:11:23","slug":"26-0609-purest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-0609-purest\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer in it\u2019s Purest Form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">by Max Lucado<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-40585 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/260609_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/260609_1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/260609_1-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mark 1:35 says, \u201cJesus went out and departed to a solitary place; and there He prayed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This dialogue must have been common among His friends: \u201cHas anyone seen Jesus?\u201d \u00a0\u201cOh, you know.\u00a0 He\u2019s up to the same thing.\u201d \u00a0\u201cPraying\u00a0<em>again<\/em>?\u201d \u00a0\u201cYep. He\u2019s been gone since sunrise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jesus would even disappear for an entire night of prayer. Prayer for most of us, isn\u2019t a matter of a month-long retreat or even an hour of meditation. It\u2019s a conversation with God while driving to work or waiting for an appointment. God will teach you to pray. We speak. He listens. He speaks. We listen. It\u2019s prayer in its purest form. God changes His people through such moments.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s my challenge for you! Every day for four weeks, pray four minutes. Then get ready to connect with God like never before!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40565\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1-unnamed-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0Read more\u00a0<a title=\"Before Amen: The Power of a Simple Prayer\" href=\"https:\/\/maxlucado.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=bed511e434184985961d50fcb&amp;id=c9668dc127&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%3Dc9668dc127%26e%3D0716428f80&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1780708342826000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3_JhZBG08V_1_JUTXCvTKQ\"><em>Before Amen: The Power of a Simple Prayer<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark 1:35 says, \u201cJesus went out and departed to a solitary place; and there He prayed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This dialogue must have been common among His friends: \u201cHas anyone seen Jesus?\u201d  \u201cOh, you know.  He\u2019s up to the same thing.\u201d  \u201cPraying again?\u201d  \u201cYep. He\u2019s been gone since sunrise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jesus would even disappear for an entire night of prayer. Prayer for most of us, isn\u2019t a matter of a month-long retreat or even an hour of meditation. It\u2019s a conversation with God while driving to work or waiting for an appointment. God will teach you to pray. We speak. He listens. He speaks. We listen. It\u2019s prayer in its purest form. God changes His people through such moments.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s my challenge for you! Every day for four weeks, pray four minutes. Then get ready to connect with God like never before!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40584","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\/40584","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=40584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40586,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40584\/revisions\/40586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}