{"id":41246,"date":"2026-08-12T22:00:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T05:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=41246"},"modified":"2026-08-10T14:42:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T21:42:47","slug":"26-0813","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-0813\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Muscle"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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Spiritual muscle is developed not by sitting but by acting. Not by listening but by doing.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut don\u2019t just listen to God\u2019s word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves. For if you listen to the word and don\u2019t obey, it is like glancing at your face in a mirror.\u00a0 You see yourself, walk away, and forget what you look like\u201d (James 1:22-24 NLT).<\/p>\n

You turn away, pause, and wonder,\u00a0Did I comb my hair?<\/em>\u00a0Such a question would betray one truth, and that is lack of attention. James indicts us for doing the same. We go to church. We hear a message, enjoy a few songs, but are we changed? Do we worry less and pray more? Are we less concerned about our will and more concerned about God\u2019s? Let\u2019s not be lookers. Let\u2019s be doers.<\/p>\n

\"\"Read more\u00a0Unbreakable Courage<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spiritual muscle is developed not by sitting but by acting. Not by listening but by doing.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut don\u2019t just listen to God\u2019s word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves. For if you listen to the word and don\u2019t obey, it is like glancing at your face in a mirror. You see yourself, walk away, and forget what you look like\u201d (James 1:22-24 NLT).<\/p>\n

You turn away, pause, and wonder, Did I comb my hair? Such a question would betray one truth, and that is lack of attention. James indicts us for doing the same. We go to church. We hear a message, enjoy a few songs, but are we changed? Do we worry less and pray more? Are we less concerned about our will and more concerned about God\u2019s? Let\u2019s not be lookers. Let\u2019s be doers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41246","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\/41246","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=41246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41249,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41246\/revisions\/41249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}