{"id":40940,"date":"2026-07-14T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=40940"},"modified":"2026-07-13T17:21:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T00:21:33","slug":"26-0715","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-0715\/","title":{"rendered":"Praise the Sovereign Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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The next time you fear the future, rejoice in the Lord\u2019s sovereignty. Rejoice in what he has accomplished. Rejoice that he is able to do what you cannot do. Fill your mind with thoughts of God.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is the Creator, who is blessed forever\u201d\u00a0(Romans 1:25).<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cHe is the same yesterday, today, and forever\u201d\u00a0(Hebrews 13:8).<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cHis years will never end\u201d\u00a0(Psalm 102:27).<\/em><\/p>\n

He is king, supreme ruler, absolute monarch, and overlord of all history. An arch of his eyebrow and a million angels will pivot and salute! Every throne is a footstool to his. Every crown is papier-mache next to his. He consults no advisers. He needs no congress. He reports to no one. He is in charge.<\/p>\n

Sovereignty gives the saint the inside track to peace. Others see the problems of the world and wring their hands. We see the problems of the world and bend our knees.<\/p>\n

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

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The next time you fear the future, rejoice in the Lord\u2019s sovereignty. Rejoice in what he has accomplished. Rejoice that he is able to do what you cannot do. Fill your mind with thoughts of God.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is the Creator, who is blessed forever\u201d (Romans 1:25).<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is the same yesterday, today, and forever\u201d (Hebrews 13:8).<\/p>\n

\u201cHis years will never end\u201d (Psalm 102:27).<\/p>\n

He is king, supreme ruler, absolute monarch, and overlord of all history. An arch of his eyebrow and a million angels will pivot and salute! Every throne is a footstool to his. Every crown is papier-mache next to his. He consults no advisers. He needs no congress. He reports to no one. He is in charge.<\/p>\n

Sovereignty gives the saint the inside track to peace. Others see the problems of the world and wring their hands. We see the problems of the world and bend our knees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40942,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40940","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\/40940","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=40940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40943,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40940\/revisions\/40943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}