{"id":1381,"date":"2016-09-13T02:38:58","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T02:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2016-09-13T02:38:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T02:38:58","slug":"a-clear-conscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2016\/09\/13\/a-clear-conscience\/","title":{"rendered":"A Clear Conscience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: 1 Timothy 3: [9] They must keep hold of the deep truths of the faith with a clear conscience.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: I\u2019m asking my Pastor to become a leader in the church, overseeing small group Ministry.  I\u2019m expected to keep hold of the deep truths of faith.  Yet almost every day I lose faith and begin to worry.  I can\u2019t even write this journal without my mind wondering about job and finances.  My faith is so weak and I lose hope so easy, I\u2019m not sure if I can be a good leader.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to increase my faith by trusting in God that He will guide me.  I know I have trials and tribulations, but instead of losing hope I need to depend on God even more.  I need His love, direction, guidance, mercy, wisdom and to know my purpose in this life.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Lord increase my faith and open my eyes to what You desire of me.  Direct me today in what to do and say.  Draw me nearer to accomplishing my purpose in this world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: 1 Timothy 3: [9] They must keep hold of the deep truths of the faith with a clear conscience. Observation: I\u2019m asking my Pastor to become a leader in the church, overseeing small group Ministry. I\u2019m expected to keep hold of the deep truths of faith. Yet almost every day I lose faith and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1381","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\/1381","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=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1383,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions\/1383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}