{"id":41250,"date":"2026-08-13T22:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T05:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=41250"},"modified":"2026-08-10T14:52:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T21:52:24","slug":"26-0814","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-0814\/","title":{"rendered":"Divine Boot Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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God told Elijah to \u201chide in the Kerith Ravine\u2026I have directed the ravens to supply you with food there\u201d (1 Kings 17:2-4 NIV).<\/p>\n

Why would God do this? To protect Elijah from Ahab and Jezebel for one thing. The crown had posted an APB. Search parties were dispatched. What better place for Elijah to hide than in the rugged landscape of his homeland?<\/p>\n

And God sent Elijah to Kerith to prepare him for the future. Remember, the world had gone crazy. Abhorrent behavior\u2014child sacrifice, worship of idols, temple prostitution\u2014had been normalized. God needed a steadfast prophet to stand against such a tide.<\/p>\n

To prepare Elijah for his assignment, God led him into the wilderness. It was there the prophet learned to radically trust God. Call it divine boot camp. Be patient. God is working on you.<\/p>\n

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

God told Elijah to \u201chide in the Kerith Ravine\u2026I have directed the ravens to supply you with food there\u201d (1 Kings 17:2-4 NIV).<\/p>\n

Why would God do this? To protect Elijah from Ahab and Jezebel for one thing. The crown had posted an APB. Search parties were dispatched. What better place for Elijah to hide than in the rugged landscape of his homeland?<\/p>\n

And God sent Elijah to Kerith to prepare him for the future. Remember, the world had gone crazy. Abhorrent behavior\u2014child sacrifice, worship of idols, temple prostitution\u2014had been normalized. God needed a steadfast prophet to stand against such a tide.<\/p>\n

To prepare Elijah for his assignment, God led him into the wilderness. It was there the prophet learned to radically trust God. Call it divine boot camp. Be patient. God is working on you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41252,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41250","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\/41250","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=41250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41253,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41250\/revisions\/41253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}