{"id":3096,"date":"2021-03-23T15:36:42","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T15:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=3096"},"modified":"2021-03-23T15:36:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T15:36:42","slug":"how-hard-do-i-strive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2021\/03\/23\/how-hard-do-i-strive\/","title":{"rendered":"How Hard Do I Strive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Acts 24: [16] So I strive always to keep my conscience clear before God and man.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: I\u2019m not sure if I make a deliberate attempt to keep my conscience clear.  This would mean I would have to think before I speak and act.  That people shouldn\u2019t find fault with my actions because they would be pure.  <\/p>\n<p>Application: Think on how I\u2019m honoring God with what I do and say.  Make sure I look out for the needs and feelings of others and that my life reflects God\u2019s love.  Plan on how to handle situations that come up so I act in a way that is honoring to God.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Lord take this self-centerness away from me and replace it with a heart of love.  Help me do things that I won\u2019t feel sorry for later and that I will please you today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Acts 24: [16] So I strive always to keep my conscience clear before God and man. Observation: I\u2019m not sure if I make a deliberate attempt to keep my conscience clear. This would mean I would have to think before I speak and act. That people shouldn\u2019t find fault with my actions because they &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3097,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3096","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\/3096","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=3096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3098,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions\/3098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}