{"id":3267,"date":"2021-05-17T15:53:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T15:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=3267"},"modified":"2021-05-17T15:53:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T15:53:10","slug":"taking-the-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2021\/05\/17\/taking-the-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking the Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Galatians 6  [10] Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: This morning I was walking and a gentleman asked me to help someone who fell and couldn\u2019t get up.  I went inside and helped get him up on his walker and left.  When I left I felt the Holy Spirit and I thanked God for the opportunity and health to be able to help.  So why don\u2019t I search out more opportunities to help others instead of avoiding them?<\/p>\n<p>Application: I know there are always opportunities to help others and I need to stop avoiding them and start searching them out.  I\u2019m here to serve as Jesus was and I need to get busy putting myself out there to help.  Jesus told me to love others and I can\u2019t accomplish that by sitting on my couch watching television.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Lord I give you this life please take it and use it for your glory.  Help me finish this race the way You want me to finish and take this selfishness away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Galatians 6 [10] Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers. Observation: This morning I was walking and a gentleman asked me to help someone who fell and couldn\u2019t get up. I went inside and helped get him up on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3267","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\/3267","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=3267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3269,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267\/revisions\/3269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}