{"id":41395,"date":"2026-08-24T14:46:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T21:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=41395"},"modified":"2026-08-24T15:08:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T22:08:04","slug":"26-0824","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-0824\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Not Just You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">by Max Lucado<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-41396 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/260824_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/260824_1.png 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/260824_1-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was food every day for Elijah and for the woman and her family. For the jar of flour was not used up and the jug of oil did not run dry, in keeping with the word of the Lord\u201d (1 Kings 17:15-16 NIV). Each day Elijah, the widow, and her son gathered around a table and had a miracle for a meal. Heaven\u2019s delivery system continued as long as the trio needed it.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus spoke of God\u2019s faithful generosity. \u201cBut if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you\u2026?\u201d (Matthew 6:30 ESV).\u00a0You aren\u2019t one scoop away from empty. It\u2019s not just you and your depleted energy. It\u2019s not just you and your concerns. You don\u2019t face the assignment alone. If it\u2019s God\u2019s will, it\u2019s God\u2019s bill.<\/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>\u201cThere was food every day for Elijah and for the woman and her family. For the jar of flour was not used up and the jug of oil did not run dry, in keeping with the word of the Lord\u201d (1 Kings 17:15-16 NIV). Each day Elijah, the widow, and her son gathered around a table and had a miracle for a meal. Heaven\u2019s delivery system continued as long as the trio needed it.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus spoke of God\u2019s faithful generosity. \u201cBut if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you\u2026?\u201d (Matthew 6:30 ESV). You aren\u2019t one scoop away from empty. It\u2019s not just you and your depleted energy. It\u2019s not just you and your concerns. You don\u2019t face the assignment alone. If it\u2019s God\u2019s will, it\u2019s God\u2019s bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41395","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\/41395","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=41395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41397,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41395\/revisions\/41397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}