{"id":40641,"date":"2026-06-18T22:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T05:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=40641"},"modified":"2026-06-15T22:10:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T05:10:02","slug":"26-0619","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-0619\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple Prayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">by Max Lucado<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-40642 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/260619_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/260619_1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/260619_1-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Prayer really is simple. Resist the urge to complicate it. Don\u2019t take pride in well-crafted prayers. Don\u2019t apologize for incoherent prayers. No games, no cover-up, just be honest. Honest to God.<\/p>\n<p>Climb into his lap, tell him everything that is on your heart. Or, tell him nothing at all. Just lift your heart to heaven and declare \u201cFather, Daddy.\u201d\u00a0 Stress, fear, guilt, grief.\u00a0 Demands on all sides. All we can summon is a plaintive, \u201cOh Father.\u201d If so, that\u2019s enough. Your Heavenly Father will wrap you in his arms.<\/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>Prayer really is simple. Resist the urge to complicate it. Don\u2019t take pride in well-crafted prayers. Don\u2019t apologize for incoherent prayers. No games, no cover-up, just be honest. Honest to God.<\/p>\n<p>Climb into his lap, tell him everything that is on your heart. Or, tell him nothing at all. Just lift your heart to heaven and declare \u201cFather, Daddy.\u201d\u00a0 Stress, fear, guilt, grief.\u00a0 Demands on all sides. All we can summon is a plaintive, \u201cOh Father.\u201d If so, that\u2019s enough. Your Heavenly Father will wrap you in his arms.<\/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":40642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40641","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\/40641","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=40641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40643,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40641\/revisions\/40643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}