{"id":3393,"date":"2021-06-24T15:10:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T15:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=3393"},"modified":"2021-06-24T15:10:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T15:10:23","slug":"help-me-through-my-temptations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2021\/06\/24\/help-me-through-my-temptations\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Me Through My Temptations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Hebrews 2: [18] Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: I am tempted every day to either do something wrong or not do anything at all.  The trouble is too often I give in to those temptations.  My thoughts typically are negative and I find myself justifying wrong actions.  If I catch myself I turn to my Lord for direction knowing if I give into my temptations I\u2019m serving Satan and not my Father.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to turn to Jesus as soon as the temptation shows itself.  It\u2019s not wrong to be tempted, but when I give in then I sin against God.  I need to stop listening to my justifications and start depending on God\u2019s word to give me direction.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Lord give me discernment on what is right and wrong and that I will turn to you for guidance to avoid these temptations.  Show me how to be triumphant in this battle of my mind. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Hebrews 2: [18] Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted. Observation: I am tempted every day to either do something wrong or not do anything at all. The trouble is too often I give in to those temptations. My thoughts typically are negative &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3393","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\/3393","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=3393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3396,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393\/revisions\/3396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}