{"id":41321,"date":"2026-08-18T22:00:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T05:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=41321"},"modified":"2026-08-17T17:11:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T00:11:29","slug":"26-0819","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-0819\/","title":{"rendered":"Absorb Spiritual Power"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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A person with no input from God has the vibrancy of Shafter Lake. It languishes a few miles west of my West Texas hometown. Envision a brackish mud puddle the size of a football field. Unlike true lakes, Shafter has no pure source. No river fills to flows through it. Gas, oil, and saltwater puddle and fume. Not a pleasant sight. The lake without an entrance or exit stinks.<\/p>\n

So does the life with no divine source. Hence the invitation of Jesus. \u201cIf anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.\u00a0 Rivers of living water will brim and spill out of the depths of anyone who believes in me this way\u201d (John 7:37-38 MSG).<\/p>\n

Like a plant absorbs light from the sun, the believer absorbs spiritual power from the divine.<\/p>\n

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A person with no input from God has the vibrancy of Shafter Lake. It languishes a few miles west of my West Texas hometown. Envision a brackish mud puddle the size of a football field. Unlike true lakes, Shafter has no pure source. No river fills to flows through it. Gas, oil, and saltwater puddle and fume. Not a pleasant sight. The lake without an entrance or exit stinks.<\/p>\n

So does the life with no divine source. Hence the invitation of Jesus. \u201cIf anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Rivers of living water will brim and spill out of the depths of anyone who believes in me this way\u201d (John 7:37-38 MSG).<\/p>\n

Like a plant absorbs light from the sun, the believer absorbs spiritual power from the divine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41321","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\/41321","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=41321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41323,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41321\/revisions\/41323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}