{"id":42132,"date":"2026-10-28T22:00:52","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T05:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=42132"},"modified":"2026-10-26T20:32:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T03:32:57","slug":"26-1029","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-1029\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Lose Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">by Max Lucado<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-42134 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/261029_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/261029_1.png 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/261029_1-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On April 21st, 2008, Katherine Wolf suffered a massive stroke. She lost her ability to walk, talk clearly, and care for herself. She went from being a California model to a wheelchair-bound patient. God stepped in.<\/p>\n<p>In her wonderful book, <em>Hope Heals<\/em>, she writes, \u201cI felt a deep awakening of the Word of God, which I had known since I was a little girl. It was my epiphany of hope. I would never lose heart in this situation because my soul was not what was wasting away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t try to weather this storm alone, my friend. He is still the great I AM. The next time you pray, \u201cIs anyone coming to help me?\u201d listen for the response of Jesus. \u201cI AM with you in this storm.\u201d Remember my friend, you are never alone.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41972\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1-unnamed-10.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"300\" \/>Read more <a title=\"You Are Never Alone: Trust in the Miracle of God's Presence &amp; Power\" href=\"https:\/\/us.list-manage.com\/V8yyrm0kwg8?e=0716428f80&amp;c2id=5bf290fbae242615d38cb988837a3f28\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/us.list-manage.com\/V8yyrm0kwg8?e%3D0716428f80%26c2id%3D5bf290fbae242615d38cb988837a3f28&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1791950355819000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2G5WZZRrmteKff4SkltPS8\"><em>You Are Never Alone: Trust in the Miracle of God&#8217;s Presence &amp; Power<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 21st, 2008, Katherine Wolf suffered a massive stroke. She lost her ability to walk, talk clearly, and care for herself. She went from being a California model to a wheelchair-bound patient. God stepped in.<\/p>\n<p>In her wonderful book, Hope Heals, she writes, \u201cI felt a deep awakening of the Word of God, which I had known since I was a little girl. It was my epiphany of hope. I would never lose heart in this situation because my soul was not what was wasting away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t try to weather this storm alone, my friend. He is still the great I AM. The next time you pray, \u201cIs anyone coming to help me?\u201d listen for the response of Jesus. \u201cI AM with you in this storm.\u201d Remember my friend, you are never alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42132","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\/42132","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=42132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42135,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42132\/revisions\/42135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}