{"id":41887,"date":"2026-10-08T22:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T05:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=41887"},"modified":"2026-10-05T16:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T23:51:12","slug":"26-1009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-1009\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Ever Present Help"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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The father may have thought he was walking the road to Capernaum all alone. Quite the contrary. Christ had supernaturally gone into the nobleman\u2019s residence and not only healed the son, but also won the hearts of the entire household. Was the father\u2019s prayer answered? By all means! It was answered in a manner greater than he had requested.<\/p>\n

Yours will be as well. Perhaps the answer will come this side of heaven. Perhaps it awaits you on the other side. Either way, this story urges you and me to keep walking and believing in our God who is our ever-present help in trouble.<\/p>\n

Ever<\/em><\/strong>-present. You\u2019ll never be put on hold or told to check back later. Ever-present<\/strong><\/em>. As near as your next breath. Ever-present help<\/strong><\/em>. He is here to help. That\u2019s the message of this miracle. That\u2019s the message of the Gospel. Remember friends, you are never alone.<\/p>\n

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

The father may have thought he was walking the road to Capernaum all alone. Quite the contrary. Christ had supernaturally gone into the nobleman\u2019s residence and not only healed the son, but also won the hearts of the entire household. Was the father\u2019s prayer answered? By all means! It was answered in a manner greater than he had requested.<\/p>\n

Yours will be as well. Perhaps the answer will come this side of heaven. Perhaps it awaits you on the other side. Either way, this story urges you and me to keep walking and believing in our God who is our ever-present help in trouble.<\/p>\n

Ever-present. You\u2019ll never be put on hold or told to check back later. Ever-present. As near as your next breath. Ever-present help. He is here to help. That\u2019s the message of this miracle. That\u2019s the message of the Gospel. Remember friends, you are never alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41889,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41887","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\/41887","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=41887"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41890,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41887\/revisions\/41890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}