{"id":41176,"date":"2026-08-05T22:00:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=41176"},"modified":"2026-08-03T17:27:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T00:27:55","slug":"26-0806","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-0806\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Heavenly Father Will Help"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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In his fine book,\u00a0The Dance of Hope<\/em>, Bill Frey remembers the day he tried to pull a stump out of the Georgia dirt. One of his chores as a 12 year-old was to search for stumps of pine trees that had been cut down and chop them into kindling. But there was one root system he just couldn\u2019t pull out of the ground.<\/p>\n

He was still struggling when his father came over to watch. \u201cI think I see your problem,\u201d the dad said. \u201cWhat\u2019s that?\u201d the son asked. \u201cYou\u2019re not using all your strength.\u201d Bill exploded and told him how hard he\u2019d been working. \u201cNo,\u201d the dad said. \u201cYou\u2019re not using\u00a0all<\/em>\u00a0your strength.\u201d When Bill cooled down, he asked what his father meant and the dad said, \u201cYou haven\u2019t asked me to help you.\u201d<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t have to do it alone, friend. Present the challenge to your father and ask for help. Will he solve the issue? Yes, he will.<\/p>\n

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

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In his fine book, The Dance of Hope, Bill Frey remembers the day he tried to pull a stump out of the Georgia dirt. One of his chores as a 12 year-old was to search for stumps of pine trees that had been cut down and chop them into kindling. But there was one root system he just couldn\u2019t pull out of the ground.<\/p>\n

He was still struggling when his father came over to watch. \u201cI think I see your problem,\u201d the dad said. \u201cWhat\u2019s that?\u201d the son asked. \u201cYou\u2019re not using all your strength.\u201d Bill exploded and told him how hard he\u2019d been working. \u201cNo,\u201d the dad said. \u201cYou\u2019re not using all your strength.\u201d When Bill cooled down, he asked what his father meant and the dad said, \u201cYou haven\u2019t asked me to help you.\u201d<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t have to do it alone, friend. Present the challenge to your father and ask for help. Will he solve the issue? Yes, he will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41178,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41176","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\/41176","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=41176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41179,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41176\/revisions\/41179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}