{"id":2482,"date":"2020-08-29T15:46:53","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T15:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=2482"},"modified":"2020-08-29T15:46:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T15:46:53","slug":"speak-with-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2020\/08\/29\/speak-with-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"Speak with Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Colossians 4:6 Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: No matter who I\u2019m talking to I must be loving, full of grace so they may listen to me when I speak of God.  My thoughts must be of God so I may see the opportunity to present the gospel without turning them away.  I\u2019m here to represent Christ and help open the eyes to those who do not know him.<\/p>\n<p>Application: It is difficult for me at times to speak with grace because I have my own opinion and I want to be heard.  I need to realize who I represent and my purpose in life is to bring others to Christ so the only agenda I should have is His.  To look at each person through the eyes of God and speak to their hearts so they may hear.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Lord soften the heart of your servant and teach me how to speak with the grace you give me each day.  You are worthy of my best and I ask you to use me today to come closer to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Colossians 4:6 Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone. Observation: No matter who I\u2019m talking to I must be loving, full of grace so they may listen to me when I speak of God. My thoughts must be of God so &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2483,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2482","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\/2482","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=2482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2484,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions\/2484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}