{"id":1388,"date":"2016-09-20T22:49:15","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T22:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=1388"},"modified":"2016-09-20T22:49:15","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T22:49:15","slug":"giving-honor-to-pastor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2016\/09\/20\/giving-honor-to-pastor\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving Honor to Pastor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: 1 Timothy 5: 17 The elders who direct the affairs of the church well are worthy of double honor, especially those whose work is preaching and teaching.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: I criticize more then compliment the pastors at my church.  It is so easy to find fault because I compare what is done to what I would do.  God has ordained the pastors and elders to fulfill a purpose and my responsibility is to honor and assist in any way I can.<\/p>\n<p>Application: Instead of judging, I need to support.  If I get into a conversation with someone and negative thoughts are expressed I need to either stop the conversation or support my church leaders.  God has put my pastor and elders above me so I may learn and they deserve my allegiance and respect.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Lord soften my heart and my tongue.  Guide me before I would say anything negative, may I be an encourager and not a discourager. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: 1 Timothy 5: 17 The elders who direct the affairs of the church well are worthy of double honor, especially those whose work is preaching and teaching. Observation: I criticize more then compliment the pastors at my church. It is so easy to find fault because I compare what is done to what I &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1388","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\/1388","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=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1390,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions\/1390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}