{"id":41404,"date":"2026-08-27T22:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T05:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=41404"},"modified":"2026-08-24T15:25:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T22:25:45","slug":"26-0828","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-0828\/","title":{"rendered":"Pray It Through"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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No verse in the Bible promises the absence of struggle. Quite the contrary. Scripture is stained with tears, problems, injustices, immorality, and wars. Tough times come with life. But troubling times don\u2019t have to take the life out of your life.<\/p>\n

God gives us this invitation: \u201cPray it through.\u201d\u00a0It<\/em>\u00a0is what troubles you, fatigues you, shames you.\u00a0It<\/em>\u00a0won\u2019t have the last word. God will.\u00a0Prayer slaps handcuffs on the culprit. Prayer marches the problem into the presence of God, the One who can solve it.<\/p>\n

The prophet Elijah is remembered as an example of radical prayer. He is living proof that \u201cwhen a believing person prays, great things happen\u201d (James 5:16 NCV).<\/p>\n

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

No verse in the Bible promises the absence of struggle. Quite the contrary. Scripture is stained with tears, problems, injustices, immorality, and wars. Tough times come with life. But troubling times don\u2019t have to take the life out of your life.<\/p>\n

God gives us this invitation: \u201cPray it through.\u201d It is what troubles you, fatigues you, shames you. It won\u2019t have the last word. God will. Prayer slaps handcuffs on the culprit. Prayer marches the problem into the presence of God, the One who can solve it.<\/p>\n

The prophet Elijah is remembered as an example of radical prayer. He is living proof that \u201cwhen a believing person prays, great things happen\u201d (James 5:16 NCV).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41404","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\/41404","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=41404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41406,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41404\/revisions\/41406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}