{"id":40933,"date":"2026-07-13T16:56:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T23:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=40933"},"modified":"2026-07-13T17:04:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T00:04:34","slug":"26-0713","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-0713\/","title":{"rendered":"The Presence of a Sovereign Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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Control freaks are easily frustrated. We can\u2019t take control, because control is not ours to take. The Bible has a better idea. Rather than seeking control, relinquish it. Peace is within reach, not for lack of problems, but because of the presence of a sovereign Lord.<\/p>\n

Rather than rehearse the chaos of the world, rejoice in the Lord\u2019s sovereignty, as the Apostle Paul did. From prison he wrote, \u201cThe things which have happened to me have actually turned out for the furtherance of the gospel, so that it has become evident to the whole palace guard, and to the rest, that my chains are in Christ\u201d (Philippians 1:12-13).<\/p>\n

In the innermost of his being, Paul was a man who believed in the steady hand of a good God, protected and preserved by God\u2019s love. He lived beneath the shadow of God\u2019s wings. Do you?<\/p>\n

\"\"Read more\u00a0Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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Control freaks are easily frustrated. We can\u2019t take control, because control is not ours to take. The Bible has a better idea. Rather than seeking control, relinquish it. Peace is within reach, not for lack of problems, but because of the presence of a sovereign Lord.<\/p>\n

Rather than rehearse the chaos of the world, rejoice in the Lord\u2019s sovereignty, as the Apostle Paul did. From prison he wrote, \u201cThe things which have happened to me have actually turned out for the furtherance of the gospel, so that it has become evident to the whole palace guard, and to the rest, that my chains are in Christ\u201d (Philippians 1:12-13).<\/p>\n

In the innermost of his being, Paul was a man who believed in the steady hand of a good God, protected and preserved by God\u2019s love. He lived beneath the shadow of God\u2019s wings. Do you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40933","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\/40933","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=40933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40935,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40933\/revisions\/40935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}