{"id":2262,"date":"2020-06-18T15:05:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T15:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=2262"},"modified":"2020-06-18T15:05:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T15:05:54","slug":"take-courage-and-testify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2020\/06\/18\/take-courage-and-testify\/","title":{"rendered":"Take Courage and Testify"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Acts 23:11 The following night the Lord stood near Paul and said, \u201cTake courage!  As you have testified about me in Jerusalem, so you must also testify in Rome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Observation: I know my purpose is to spread the gospel, to testify of the gospel of my Lord, Jesus.  I don\u2019t fulfill my purpose most of the time because I am afraid of what people will think and embarrassment.  How can I think of what people think above what God will think?  <\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to take courage, the courage that comes from the Holy Spirit, who is always with me.  I have one purpose to spread the gospel and God has given me so many avenues to do and gifts and talents to accomplish this task.  By faith I need to fulfill what God as already put on my heart to do.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My Lord give me the strength and courage to honor you each day.  To tell others of your unfailing love.  May none perish that I know because I was faithful in spreading your word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Acts 23:11 The following night the Lord stood near Paul and said, \u201cTake courage! As you have testified about me in Jerusalem, so you must also testify in Rome.\u201d Observation: I know my purpose is to spread the gospel, to testify of the gospel of my Lord, Jesus. I don\u2019t fulfill my purpose most &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2262","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\/2262","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=2262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2264,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262\/revisions\/2264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}