{"id":1896,"date":"2019-04-06T15:04:36","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T15:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=1896"},"modified":"2019-04-06T15:04:36","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T15:04:36","slug":"dont-be-afraid-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2019\/04\/06\/dont-be-afraid-believe\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Be Afraid, Believe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Mark 5:36 Ignoring what they said, Jesus told the synagogue ruler, \u201cDon\u2019t be afraid, just believe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Observation: Just yesterday the scripture was almost the same, don\u2019t be afraid.  Yet even this morning I\u2019m worried about my job, being able to pay off my house before I can retire, about the repetition of my days and not accomplishing much for my Lord.  I can\u2019t seem to live a day at a time as my God instructs me to do.  Why can\u2019t I just believe God has everything under control?<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to live each day without worrying about the next.  To believe my Lord that has saved and healed me is on the throne of my life and if I let him he\u2019ll take care of everything.  I have this moment to live and if God allows it I\u2019ll live the next until it is time to go home.  May I live it for my God.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Lord take this fear from me and strengthen my faith.  Show me how to live for you.  Take this worry, laziness and unbelief from me and increase my faith in you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Mark 5:36 Ignoring what they said, Jesus told the synagogue ruler, \u201cDon\u2019t be afraid, just believe.\u201d Observation: Just yesterday the scripture was almost the same, don\u2019t be afraid. Yet even this morning I\u2019m worried about my job, being able to pay off my house before I can retire, about the repetition of my days &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1896","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\/1896","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=1896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1899,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions\/1899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}