{"id":40944,"date":"2026-07-15T22:00:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T05:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=40944"},"modified":"2026-07-13T17:27:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T00:27:34","slug":"26-0716","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-0716\/","title":{"rendered":"Trust Brings Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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Our minds cannot be full of God and at the same time full of fear! \u00a0Don\u2019t get lost in your troubles. Lift up your eyes! \u201cHe will keep in perfect peace all those who trust in him, whose thoughts turn often to the Lord!\u00a0 (Isa. 26:3 TLB)<\/p>\n

Are you troubled, restless, sleepless?\u00a0 Then rejoice in the Lord\u2019s Sovereignty.\u00a0 I dare you. I double-dog dare you\u2014to expose your worries to an hour of worship. Your concerns will melt like ice on an August sidewalk!<\/p>\n

Jeremiah draws a direct connection between faith and peace. He says, \u201cBlessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is in the Lord.\u00a0 For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, which spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes; but its leaf will be green, and will not be anxious in the year of drought.\u00a0 (Jeremiah 17:7-8 NKJV)<\/p>\n

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

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Our minds cannot be full of God and at the same time full of fear! Don\u2019t get lost in your troubles. Lift up your eyes! \u201cHe will keep in perfect peace all those who trust in him, whose thoughts turn often to the Lord! (Isa. 26:3 TLB)<\/p>\n

Are you troubled, restless, sleepless? Then rejoice in the Lord\u2019s Sovereignty. I dare you. I double-dog dare you\u2014to expose your worries to an hour of worship. Your concerns will melt like ice on an August sidewalk!<\/p>\n

Jeremiah draws a direct connection between faith and peace. He says, \u201cBlessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is in the Lord. For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, which spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes; but its leaf will be green, and will not be anxious in the year of drought. (Jeremiah 17:7-8 NKJV)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40944","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\/40944","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=40944"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40947,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40944\/revisions\/40947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}