{"id":1479,"date":"2016-11-20T17:46:15","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T17:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=1479"},"modified":"2016-11-20T17:46:15","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T17:46:15","slug":"knowing-the-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2016\/11\/20\/knowing-the-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowing the Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: James 4: [17] Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn&#8217;t do it, sins.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: I try to avoid sin the best I can, but I also avoid doing good out of laziness.  I know I\u2019m suppose to be working harder at the small group ministry, but I don\u2019t.  I don\u2019t want to help with the Valentine\u2019s dinner, because of pride and laziness.  I don\u2019t want to do anything in the evening, because it disturbs my rest.<\/p>\n<p>Application: God put on my heart the things I should do, I have no excuse.  I need to fight the temptation of not doing anything, that is my sin.  I\u2019m only here for a short while and have a small window of opportunity to do God\u2019s will here and I need to take it.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Lord give me strength and wisdom to do your will.  May I realize the blessings you have set aside for me here and may I not miss an opportunity to do good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: James 4: [17] Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn&#8217;t do it, sins. Observation: I try to avoid sin the best I can, but I also avoid doing good out of laziness. I know I\u2019m suppose to be working harder at the small group ministry, but I don\u2019t. I &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1479","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\/1479","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=1479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1481,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions\/1481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}