{"id":40721,"date":"2026-06-25T22:00:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T05:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=40721"},"modified":"2026-06-22T12:32:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T19:32:26","slug":"26-0626","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-0626\/","title":{"rendered":"A Heartfelt Plea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">by Max Lucado<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-40723 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/260626_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/260626_1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/260626_1-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When my eldest daughter was 13, she flubbed her piano piece at a recital. The silence in the auditorium was broken only by the pounding of her parents\u2019 hearts. She hurried off the stage, threw her arms around me and buried her face in my shirt. \u201cOh, Daddy.\u201d That was enough for me. At that moment I\u2019d have given her the moon, and all she said was, \u201cOh, Daddy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prayer starts here. Prayer begins with an honest, heartfelt, \u201cOh Daddy!\u201d Jesus invites us to approach God the way a child approaches his or her daddy.<\/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>When my eldest daughter was 13, she flubbed her piano piece at a recital. The silence in the auditorium was broken only by the pounding of her parents\u2019 hearts. She hurried off the stage, threw her arms around me and buried her face in my shirt. \u201cOh, Daddy.\u201d That was enough for me. At that moment I\u2019d have given her the moon, and all she said was, \u201cOh, Daddy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prayer starts here. Prayer begins with an honest, heartfelt, \u201cOh Daddy!\u201d Jesus invites us to approach God the way a child approaches his or her daddy.<\/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":40723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40721","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\/40721","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=40721"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40724,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40721\/revisions\/40724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}