{"id":41727,"date":"2026-09-22T22:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T05:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=41727"},"modified":"2026-09-21T16:30:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T23:30:54","slug":"26-0923","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-0923\/","title":{"rendered":"Heed the Promises"},"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-41728 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/260923_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/260923_1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/260923_1-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Reading from 1 Kings 18:45-46, \u201cMeanwhile the sky grew black with clouds, the wind rose, a heavy rain started falling and Ahab rode off to Jezreel.\u00a0 The power of the Lord came on Elijah and\u2026he ran ahead of Ahab all the way to Jezreel\u201d (NIV).<\/p>\n<p>Elijah, the prophet who brought down fire, is now the prophet who brings down rain.\u00a0 Elijah, the prophet who knelt on Mount Carmel in prayer, becomes the prophet who descends in a flurry.<\/p>\n<p>His action inspires us to do likewise.\u00a0 Lift up your eyes!\u00a0 Trust the promises of God.\u00a0 Apart from them life will beat you up.\u00a0 But armed with them, you will weather any storm. \u00a0How different our lives would be if we heeded the promises and not the problems!<\/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>Reading from 1 Kings 18:45-46, \u201cMeanwhile the sky grew black with clouds, the wind rose, a heavy rain started falling and Ahab rode off to Jezreel.\u00a0 The power of the Lord came on Elijah and\u2026he ran ahead of Ahab all the way to Jezreel\u201d (NIV).<\/p>\n<p>Elijah, the prophet who brought down fire, is now the prophet who brings down rain.\u00a0 Elijah, the prophet who knelt on Mount Carmel in prayer, becomes the prophet who descends in a flurry.<\/p>\n<p>His action inspires us to do likewise.\u00a0 Lift up your eyes!\u00a0 Trust the promises of God.\u00a0 Apart from them life will beat you up.\u00a0 But armed with them, you will weather any storm. \u00a0How different our lives would be if we heeded the promises and not the problems!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41727","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\/41727","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=41727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41729,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41727\/revisions\/41729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}