{"id":41956,"date":"2026-10-13T22:00:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T05:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=41956"},"modified":"2026-10-12T21:13:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T04:13:45","slug":"26-1014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-1014\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting on Help"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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man near the pool of Bethesda didn\u2019t use the word \u201cstuck,\u201d but he sure could have. For 38 years near the edge of a pool, it was just him, his mat, and his paralyzed body. And since no one would help him, help never came.<\/p>\n

Crowds of people, despondent, dejected, one after the other, awaited their chance to be placed in the pool where healing waters bubbled up. Can you envision them? And more important, can you envision Jesus walking among them?<\/p>\n

All the gospels\u2019 stories of help and healing invite us to embrace this wonderful promise: \u201cWherever Jesus went, he healed people of every sort of illness. And what pity he felt for the crowds that came because their problems were so great and they didn\u2019t know what to do or where to go for help\u201d (Matthew 9:35-36 TLB).<\/p>\n

My friend, remember Jesus sees you and you are never alone.<\/p>\n

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

The man near the pool of Bethesda didn\u2019t use the word \u201cstuck,\u201d but he sure could have. For 38 years near the edge of a pool, it was just him, his mat, and his paralyzed body. And since no one would help him, help never came.<\/p>\n

Crowds of people, despondent, dejected, one after the other, awaited their chance to be placed in the pool where healing waters bubbled up. Can you envision them? And more important, can you envision Jesus walking among them?<\/p>\n

All the gospels\u2019 stories of help and healing invite us to embrace this wonderful promise: \u201cWherever Jesus went, he healed people of every sort of illness. And what pity he felt for the crowds that came because their problems were so great and they didn\u2019t know what to do or where to go for help\u201d (Matthew 9:35-36 TLB).<\/p>\n

My friend, remember Jesus sees you and you are never alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41956","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\/41956","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=41956"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41965,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41956\/revisions\/41965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}