{"id":3243,"date":"2021-05-09T15:50:38","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T15:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=3243"},"modified":"2021-05-09T15:50:38","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T15:50:38","slug":"depending-on-weakness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2021\/05\/09\/depending-on-weakness\/","title":{"rendered":"Depending on Weakness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture:     2Corinthians 11:30 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: Lately I\u2019ve been building myself up, depending on my skills at work and talking more lowly about my supervisors and clients.  I feel I\u2019ve been doing my job for a long time and have so much knowledge why should I listen to them?  Perhaps that is why God has me here to humble me and for me to realize all I have, including my skills and knowledge come from Him.  I pray each day that God will open a door for a new job, but maybe I haven\u2019t learned what God is trying to show me that I\u2019m not strong at work, but weak and need Him.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to admit I\u2019m weak in all things.  If I feel I\u2019m strong in something I need to realize where that strength comes from.  I need to avoid my pride and depend on God to get me through and then listen to the lesson He is teaching me.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Father, your child is disobedient at times and I need to feel your embrace and correction so that I may live this life in glory and honor to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: 2Corinthians 11:30 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness. Observation: Lately I\u2019ve been building myself up, depending on my skills at work and talking more lowly about my supervisors and clients. I feel I\u2019ve been doing my job for a long time and have so much knowledge &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3243","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\/3243","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=3243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3245,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243\/revisions\/3245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}