{"id":3044,"date":"2021-03-06T16:11:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-06T16:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=3044"},"modified":"2021-03-06T16:11:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T16:11:54","slug":"the-forgiveness-of-stephen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2021\/03\/06\/the-forgiveness-of-stephen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Forgiveness of Stephen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Acts 7:[60] Then he fell on his knees and cried out, &#8220;Lord, do not hold this sin against them.&#8221; When he had said this, he fell asleep.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: I need that kind of forgiveness towards others.  I see how people are treating me and want to retaliate against them, instead of forgiving them as Christ forgave me.  Stephen had the heart of Christ and that is what I want.<\/p>\n<p>Application: To look at others as Jesus saw them with a loving, caring and forgiving heart.  To stop trying to be better than others and finding fault, but loving them no matter how they treat me.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Lord soften my heart so I may look at others the way you do.  Give me a calmer spirit so I don\u2019t react in haste but in love.  Make me a man that would honor you with my love towards others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Acts 7:[60] Then he fell on his knees and cried out, &#8220;Lord, do not hold this sin against them.&#8221; When he had said this, he fell asleep. Observation: I need that kind of forgiveness towards others. I see how people are treating me and want to retaliate against them, instead of forgiving them as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3044","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\/3044","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=3044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3046,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions\/3046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}