{"id":2161,"date":"2020-05-16T16:15:43","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T16:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=2161"},"modified":"2020-05-16T16:15:43","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T16:15:43","slug":"who-do-i-try-to-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2020\/05\/16\/who-do-i-try-to-please\/","title":{"rendered":"Who do I Try to Please?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: John 12:43 for they loved praise from men more than praise from God.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: Lately I\u2019ve been doing more serving, I\u2019ve been doing Street Evangelism, Teri and I went to Camp Alandale to help get things ready, I\u2019m doing a small group coming up this Wednesday, things that should honor God.  However I tell others these things to impress them and in doing so I believe I miss my blessing.  These things should be done for God\u2019s glory, not mine.  I do look for the praises of people above God\u2019s.  I want to look holy at the expense of not being Holy.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to continue to do even  more services for God and leave it at that.  When people notice to give me praise I need to point to God who gives me the talents and gifts to do these things.  All things I do should bring glory to God.  May I not miss another blessing God has in store for me because of pride.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Lord I\u2019m your servant and you deserve the best I have to offer.  Continue to strengthen me to do what is good in you sight and that you will get all the glory and praise which are yours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: John 12:43 for they loved praise from men more than praise from God. Observation: Lately I\u2019ve been doing more serving, I\u2019ve been doing Street Evangelism, Teri and I went to Camp Alandale to help get things ready, I\u2019m doing a small group coming up this Wednesday, things that should honor God. However I tell &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2161","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\/2161","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=2161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2163,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions\/2163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}