{"id":40634,"date":"2026-06-16T22:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T05:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=40634"},"modified":"2026-06-15T22:00:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T05:00:54","slug":"26-0617","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-0617\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer Wimps"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m a card-carrying member of the PWA. \u00a0\u201cPrayer Wimps Anonymous.\u201d Can you relate? \u00a0We pray. \u00a0We pray to stay sober, centered, and solvent. We pray when the lump is deemed malignant, when the money runs out before the month does.<\/p>\n

We all pray some but wouldn\u2019t we like to pray more? \u00a0Like the disciples, when they ask Jesus, \u201cTeach us to pray.\u201d Teach us to find strength in prayer, to banish fear in prayer. \u00a0Prayer is simply a heartfelt conversation between God and you. \u00a0A prayer as simple as this one: \u201cFather you are good. \u00a0I need help, heal me and forgive me. They need help. Thank you in Jesus name.\u201d<\/p>\n

Every day for four weeks. Pray four minutes and then and get ready to connect with God like never before.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u00a0 \u00a0Read more\u00a0Before Amen: The Power of a Simple Prayer<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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I\u2019m a card-carrying member of the PWA. \u201cPrayer Wimps Anonymous.\u201d Can you relate? We pray. We pray to stay sober, centered, and solvent. We pray when the lump is deemed malignant, when the money runs out before the month does.<\/p>\n

We all pray some but wouldn\u2019t we like to pray more? Like the disciples, when they ask Jesus, \u201cTeach us to pray.\u201d Teach us to find strength in prayer, to banish fear in prayer. Prayer is simply a heartfelt conversation between God and you. A prayer as simple as this one: \u201cFather you are good. I need help, heal me and forgive me. They need help. Thank you in Jesus name.\u201d<\/p>\n

Every day for four weeks. Pray four minutes and then and get ready to connect with God like never before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40636,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40634","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\/40634","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=40634"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40637,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40634\/revisions\/40637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}