{"id":2970,"date":"2021-02-11T15:07:52","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T15:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=2970"},"modified":"2021-02-11T15:07:52","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T15:07:52","slug":"accepting-gods-praise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2021\/02\/11\/accepting-gods-praise\/","title":{"rendered":"Accepting God\u2019s Praise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: John 5:[44] How can you believe if you accept praise from one another, yet make no effort to obtain the praise that comes from the only God?<\/p>\n<p>Observation: I didn\u2019t only accept but did everything I could to get praise from men.  Whatever it took to make myself look better to others is what I did without thinking of God.  I would be somebody else if that is what it took to be accepted by others whether I hurt God or not.<\/p>\n<p>Application: To live a life honoring God and to be a man God could praise.  If a live this kind of life men will want to praise me but I need to direct that praise to my Father who deserves all the glory and honor.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Lord teach me how to live a life worthy of your praise.  Humble your servant so that I may see the life you desire for me and may I never strive to accept the praise from men, but only from you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: John 5:[44] How can you believe if you accept praise from one another, yet make no effort to obtain the praise that comes from the only God? Observation: I didn\u2019t only accept but did everything I could to get praise from men. Whatever it took to make myself look better to others is what &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2971,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2970","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\/2970","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=2970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2972,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970\/revisions\/2972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}