{"id":1283,"date":"2016-06-25T16:28:21","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T16:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=1283"},"modified":"2016-06-25T16:28:21","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T16:28:21","slug":"because-of-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2016\/06\/25\/because-of-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Because of Me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Galatians 1: [24] And they praised God because of me.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: Does anyone praise God because of me?  I\u2019m suppose to be living a life honoring God.  If I was I would be loving, giving, caring for others and pointing them to God.  I looked back at the last few weeks and can\u2019t think of one instance that anyone would praise God because of me.  It wouldn\u2019t take a lot to reach out and contact someone, help someone with a chore, give money to someone in need without them asking, invite someone over for dinner or to show someone that my heart belongs to God.<\/p>\n<p>Application: Stop just passing by people and start looking at them with the heart of God.  Look for small opportunities to help or to smile and greet a stranger. Be more aware of my neighbors and find ways to help get out of my comfort zone and share God&#8217;s love.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Lord I thank you for all you give me, may I share it with others in glory and honor to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Galatians 1: [24] And they praised God because of me. Observation: Does anyone praise God because of me? I\u2019m suppose to be living a life honoring God. If I was I would be loving, giving, caring for others and pointing them to God. I looked back at the last few weeks and can\u2019t think &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1284,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1283","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\/1283","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=1283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1285,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions\/1285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}