{"id":40948,"date":"2026-07-16T22:00:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T05:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=40948"},"modified":"2026-07-13T17:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T00:34:09","slug":"26-0717","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-0717\/","title":{"rendered":"What Sustains Your Belief"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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Many years ago I spent a week visiting the interior of Brazil with a longtime missionary pilot. Wilbur and Orville had a sturdier aircraft! I could not get comfortable. I kept thinking the plane was going to crash in the jungle, and I\u2019d be gobbled up by piranhas. I kept shifting around, looking down, and gripping my seat\u2014as if that would help. Finally, the pilot had enough of my squirming. He looked over at me and shouted over the airplane noise, \u201cWe won\u2019t face anything that I can\u2019t handle. You might as well trust me to fly the plane.\u201d<\/p>\n

Is God saying the same to you? Examine the truths which sustain your belief in God. Make sure one of them is etched with the words, \u201cMy God is sovereign!\u201d Then, be anxious for nothing.<\/p>\n

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

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Many years ago I spent a week visiting the interior of Brazil with a longtime missionary pilot. Wilbur and Orville had a sturdier aircraft! I could not get comfortable. I kept thinking the plane was going to crash in the jungle, and I\u2019d be gobbled up by piranhas. I kept shifting around, looking down, and gripping my seat\u2014as if that would help. Finally, the pilot had enough of my squirming. He looked over at me and shouted over the airplane noise, \u201cWe won\u2019t face anything that I can\u2019t handle. You might as well trust me to fly the plane.\u201d<\/p>\n

Is God saying the same to you? Examine the truths which sustain your belief in God. Make sure one of them is etched with the words, \u201cMy God is sovereign!\u201d Then, be anxious for nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40950,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40948","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\/40948","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=40948"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40951,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40948\/revisions\/40951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}