{"id":41407,"date":"2026-08-28T22:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T05:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=41407"},"modified":"2026-08-24T15:30:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T22:30:53","slug":"26-0829","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-0829\/","title":{"rendered":"The Strategy for the Tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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\u201cSome time later the son of the woman who owned the house became ill. He grew worse and worse and finally stopped breathing\u2026Elijah lay on top of the boy three times. He prayed to the\u00a0Lord, \u2018Lord\u00a0my God, let this boy live again!’\u201d (1 Kings 17:17, 21). The Lord answered Elijah\u2019s prayer, the boy began breathing again, and was alive.<\/p>\n

What if Elijah holding the dead boy is a picture of you and me in the midst of a sick society? Did you know that nine out of ten young people in Great Britain believe that life has no meaning? What happens when ninety percent of a generation find no reason to live? Anxiety, anger, depression, despair, suicide. We, like Elijah, have been handed a corpse. Elijah shows us what to do. Prayer was his strategy for the tragedy.<\/p>\n

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

\u201cSome time later the son of the woman who owned the house became ill. He grew worse and worse and finally stopped breathing\u2026Elijah lay on top of the boy three times. He prayed to the Lord, \u2018Lord my God, let this boy live again!’\u201d (1 Kings 17:17, 21). The Lord answered Elijah\u2019s prayer, the boy began breathing again, and was alive.<\/p>\n

What if Elijah holding the dead boy is a picture of you and me in the midst of a sick society? Did you know that nine out of ten young people in Great Britain believe that life has no meaning? What happens when ninety percent of a generation find no reason to live? Anxiety, anger, depression, despair, suicide. We, like Elijah, have been handed a corpse. Elijah shows us what to do. Prayer was his strategy for the tragedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41407","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\/41407","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=41407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41409,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41407\/revisions\/41409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}