{"id":41497,"date":"2026-08-31T14:54:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T21:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=41497"},"modified":"2026-08-31T15:01:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T22:01:49","slug":"26-0831","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-0831\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrestle in Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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When the son of his friend died, \u201cElijah stretched himself out on the child three times, and cried out to the Lord and said, \u2018O Lord my God, I pray, let this child\u2019s soul come back to him\u2019\u201d (1 Kings 17:21 NKJV).\u00a0Elijah had no precedent upon which to base this prayer. Up to this point in Scripture, no person had been brought back to life. He did this because he believed in a living God.<\/p>\n

There are occasions in which we rest in prayer. There are other occasions in which we\u00a0wrestle<\/em>\u00a0in prayer. Elijah wrestled. Elijah did first what mattered most: he prayed\u2026passionately, dramatically, thunderously. Let\u2019s do likewise. Let\u2019s heed the command of Scripture: \u201cSo let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God\u2026\u201d (Hebrews 4:16 NLT).<\/p>\n

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When the son of his friend died, \u201cElijah stretched himself out on the child three times, and cried out to the Lord and said, \u2018O Lord my God, I pray, let this child\u2019s soul come back to him\u2019\u201d (1 Kings 17:21 NKJV). Elijah had no precedent upon which to base this prayer. Up to this point in Scripture, no person had been brought back to life. He did this because he believed in a living God.<\/p>\n

There are occasions in which we rest in prayer. There are other occasions in which we wrestle in prayer. Elijah wrestled. Elijah did first what mattered most: he prayed\u2026passionately, dramatically, thunderously. Let\u2019s do likewise. Let\u2019s heed the command of Scripture: \u201cSo let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God\u2026\u201d (Hebrews 4:16 NLT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41497","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\/41497","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=41497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41501,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41497\/revisions\/41501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}