{"id":41883,"date":"2026-10-07T22:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T05:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=41883"},"modified":"2026-10-05T16:44:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T23:44:59","slug":"26-1008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-1008\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Yet Answered Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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The Gospel of John tells the story about a man from Capernaum who approached Jesus in Cana. \u201cCome heal my son?\u201d the man asked. Jesus said the boy would be healed, and the man set out for Capernaum.<\/p>\n

Do you find yourself somewhere between Cana and Capernaum? Like the official, you begged Jesus for help. And like the official you didn\u2019t receive the answer in the way you wanted. This is the issue of the not yet answered prayer, or the not answered in the way I asked prayer.<\/p>\n

How should we react? I\u2019m sorry that the job did not materialize or the cancer chose to metastasize. Life has its share of dark, dank moments. Read the Bible from the table of contents in the front to the maps in the back, and you will not find any promise of a pain-free life on this side of heaven. But you will find this assurance, \u201cNever will I leave you. Never will I forsake you.\u201d You are never alone.<\/p>\n

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

The Gospel of John tells the story about a man from Capernaum who approached Jesus in Cana. \u201cCome heal my son?\u201d the man asked. Jesus said the boy would be healed, and the man set out for Capernaum.<\/p>\n

Do you find yourself somewhere between Cana and Capernaum? Like the official, you begged Jesus for help. And like the official you didn\u2019t receive the answer in the way you wanted. This is the issue of the not yet answered prayer, or the not answered in the way I asked prayer.<\/p>\n

How should we react? I\u2019m sorry that the job did not materialize or the cancer chose to metastasize. Life has its share of dark, dank moments. Read the Bible from the table of contents in the front to the maps in the back, and you will not find any promise of a pain-free life on this side of heaven. But you will find this assurance, \u201cNever will I leave you. Never will I forsake you.\u201d You are never alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41883","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\/41883","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=41883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41886,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41883\/revisions\/41886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}