{"id":1060,"date":"2016-01-27T01:12:22","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T01:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=1060"},"modified":"2016-01-27T01:12:22","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T01:12:22","slug":"good-news-of-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2016\/01\/27\/good-news-of-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Good News of Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Acts 8: [35] Then Philip began with that very passage of Scripture and told him the good news about Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: How many people have I told about the good news of Jesus?  Each day I draw nearer to being with my Lord, but I\u2019m not getting busy doing His work.  Instead of taking time out to do His will, I\u2019d rather relax or do what I want to do.  He saved me for a purpose, to tell others about the good news of eternity and what Jesus did for us.  What stopping me?  Me!!<\/p>\n<p>Application: My purpose in my Lord must be first.  Today I have an opportunity to counsel others and instead of whining about not being home or with my wife I should be honored that God would allow me to do this.  I need to get up early and work out to strengthen this body to fulfill my purpose and to tell others the \u201cGood News.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My Lord I\u2019m weak and lazy, help me fulfill the purpose you have created me for.  Give me strength to spread the good news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Acts 8: [35] Then Philip began with that very passage of Scripture and told him the good news about Jesus. Observation: How many people have I told about the good news of Jesus? Each day I draw nearer to being with my Lord, but I\u2019m not getting busy doing His work. Instead of taking &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1061,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-devotional"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1063,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions\/1063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}