{"id":41511,"date":"2026-09-03T22:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T05:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=41511"},"modified":"2026-08-31T16:09:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T23:09:26","slug":"26-0904","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-0904\/","title":{"rendered":"Dare to Think the Unthinkable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">by Max Lucado<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-41513 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/260904_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/260904_1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/260904_1-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dare we think the unthinkable? That God will hear our prayers, that he will listen when we speak?\u00a0If you were to pray a faith-empowered prayer, what would you say? Then say it! Let faith fuel your prayers. And let prayers put starch in your faith.<\/p>\n<p>Will God give you what you request? Yes, he will. He may do so in a different form than you ask for or a different time frame than you prefer, but \u201cit is [Jesus] who is the \u2018Yes\u2019 to all of God\u2019s promises\u201d (2 Corinthians 1:20 GNT).<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s renew our commitment to unreasonable, unquenchable, unthinkable prayer.\u00a0 Let\u2019s ask God to resurrect hope that has perished and dreams that are buried.<\/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>Dare we think the unthinkable? That God will hear our prayers, that he will listen when we speak? If you were to pray a faith-empowered prayer, what would you say? Then say it! Let faith fuel your prayers. And let prayers put starch in your faith.<\/p>\n<p>Will God give you what you request? Yes, he will. He may do so in a different form than you ask for or a different time frame than you prefer, but \u201cit is [Jesus] who is the \u2018Yes\u2019 to all of God\u2019s promises\u201d (2 Corinthians 1:20 GNT).<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s renew our commitment to unreasonable, unquenchable, unthinkable prayer.  Let\u2019s ask God to resurrect hope that has perished and dreams that are buried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41513,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41511","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\/41511","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=41511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41514,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41511\/revisions\/41514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}