{"id":41242,"date":"2026-08-11T22:00:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T05:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=41242"},"modified":"2026-08-10T14:36:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T21:36:38","slug":"26-0812","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-0812\/","title":{"rendered":"Strength to Ride the Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">by Max Lucado<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-41244 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/260812a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/260812a.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/260812a-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Do you feel it is you against the world? Not so, my friend. Outnumbered by foes and outdone by fear? Please reconsider. Surrounded by adversity? Perhaps. Yet, you are also encircled by divinity. With God\u2019s help you can ride these raging rapids with unbreakable courage.<\/p>\n<p>Immovable. Determined. Square-jawed and resolved. Like the prophet Elijah who \u201c\u2026went and did according to the word of the Lord\u2026\u201d (1 Kings 17:5 NKJV). Elijah affirms a positive answer to these questions: Can a person maintain faith in a world that has little? When a culture belittles belief, can a believer beget strength? Yes! With God\u2019s help, we will discover strength to ride this storm, an unbreakable courage and steadfast faith.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41182\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1-unnamed-9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" \/>Read more\u00a0<a title=\"Unbreakable Courage\" href=\"https:\/\/us.list-manage.com\/VdHymSVgq5s?e=0716428f80&amp;c2id=5bf290fbae242615d38cb988837a3f28\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/us.list-manage.com\/VdHymSVgq5s?e%3D0716428f80%26c2id%3D5bf290fbae242615d38cb988837a3f28&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1785888189045000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1AaceCiu-oAfL3xtkbfjJ4\"><em>Unbreakable Courage<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you feel it is you against the world? Not so, my friend. Outnumbered by foes and outdone by fear? Please reconsider. Surrounded by adversity? Perhaps. Yet, you are also encircled by divinity. With God\u2019s help you can ride these raging rapids with unbreakable courage.<\/p>\n<p>Immovable. Determined. Square-jawed and resolved. Like the prophet Elijah who \u201c\u2026went and did according to the word of the Lord\u2026\u201d (1 Kings 17:5 NKJV). Elijah affirms a positive answer to these questions: Can a person maintain faith in a world that has little? When a culture belittles belief, can a believer beget strength? Yes! With God\u2019s help, we will discover strength to ride this storm, an unbreakable courage and steadfast faith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41242","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\/41242","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=41242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41245,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41242\/revisions\/41245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}