{"id":41807,"date":"2026-10-01T22:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T05:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=41807"},"modified":"2026-09-28T16:52:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T23:52:02","slug":"26-1002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-1002\/","title":{"rendered":"Where to Take Your Hurt"},"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-41809 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/261002_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/261002_1.png 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/261002_1-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ahab and Jezebel were dead. Their Son Ahaziah, a chip off the old demonic block, had assumed the throne. He took a fall. Maybe he was paralyzed and in pain. Whatever his malady, he sought relief.<\/p>\n<p>Where do you go when you hurt? Some people turn to alcohol. Others to opioids. Still others to a frenzied schedule. How many turn to Jehovah? Ahaziah could have. But, no, pain drove him to consult a false god, Baal.<\/p>\n<p>The most insidious work of the devil is counterfeit religion. Why? The devilish cunning of counterfeit religion is that it mixes in just enough truth to make the lie all the stronger. Satan sold a bag of lies to Ahaziah. Don\u2019t let him do the same with you.<\/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>Ahab and Jezebel were dead. Their Son Ahaziah, a chip off the old demonic block, had assumed the throne. He took a fall. Maybe he was paralyzed and in pain. Whatever his malady, he sought relief.<\/p>\n<p>Where do you go when you hurt? Some people turn to alcohol. Others to opioids. Still others to a frenzied schedule. How many turn to Jehovah? Ahaziah could have. But, no, pain drove him to consult a false god, Baal.<\/p>\n<p>The most insidious work of the devil is counterfeit religion. Why? The devilish cunning of counterfeit religion is that it mixes in just enough truth to make the lie all the stronger. Satan sold a bag of lies to Ahaziah. Don\u2019t let him do the same with you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41807","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\/41807","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=41807"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41810,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41807\/revisions\/41810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}