{"id":42039,"date":"2026-10-20T22:00:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T05:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=42039"},"modified":"2026-10-19T19:50:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T02:50:55","slug":"26-1021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-1021\/","title":{"rendered":"Christ Does What We Can\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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The crowd followed Jesus around the Sea of Galilee. The 15,000 people\u20145,000 men plus women and children\u2014were hungry. Philip and Andrew counted the hungry people. They counted the money in their bag. They counted the amount of fish and bread.<\/p>\n

They did not, however, count on Christ. And he was standing right there! Yet the idea of soliciting his help did not dawn on them. Even so, Jesus went right to work. \u201cJesus took the loaves, and when He had given thanks, He distributed them to those who were seated\u2026and as much fish as they were wanting, too\u201d (John 6:11). The impossible task of feeding all these people became the unforgettable miracle of all these people fed.<\/p>\n

What we cannot do, Christ does. The problems we face are opportunities for Christ to prove his point. Remember friends, you are never alone.<\/p>\n

\"\"Read more You Are Never Alone: Trust in the Miracle of God’s Presence & Power<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The crowd followed Jesus around the Sea of Galilee. The 15,000 people\u20145,000 men plus women and children\u2014were hungry. Philip and Andrew counted the hungry people. They counted the money in their bag. They counted the amount of fish and bread.<\/p>\n

They did not, however, count on Christ. And he was standing right there! Yet the idea of soliciting his help did not dawn on them. Even so, Jesus went right to work. \u201cJesus took the loaves, and when He had given thanks, He distributed them to those who were seated\u2026and as much fish as they were wanting, too\u201d (John 6:11). The impossible task of feeding all these people became the unforgettable miracle of all these people fed.<\/p>\n

What we cannot do, Christ does. The problems we face are opportunities for Christ to prove his point. Remember friends, you are never alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42039","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\/42039","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=42039"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42044,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42039\/revisions\/42044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}