{"id":3106,"date":"2021-03-26T15:57:57","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T15:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=3106"},"modified":"2021-03-26T15:57:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T15:57:57","slug":"giving-up-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2021\/03\/26\/giving-up-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving Up Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Acts 27: [20] When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and the storm continued raging, we finally gave up all hope of being saved.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: Most of my life I gave up hope, if I even had any in the first place.  I didn\u2019t even know about being saved I thought I was here all alone.  I wanted to perish, life here was too hard and hurt so bad.  I was headed for doom and couldn\u2019t take it anymore, I had no hope.<\/p>\n<p>Application: Jesus changed this for me and gave me hope and showed me the way out of my pain and hopelessness.  I know He is asking me to guide others to Him so they may be able to live a life of fullness.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My Lord guide me and show me how to touch others in your name.  Use me tomorrow to give someone who has lost hope a chance to speak with you and that you would comfort them as you did me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Acts 27: [20] When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and the storm continued raging, we finally gave up all hope of being saved. Observation: Most of my life I gave up hope, if I even had any in the first place. I didn\u2019t even know about being saved I thought I &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3106","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\/3106","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=3106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3108,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106\/revisions\/3108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}