{"id":3827,"date":"2021-11-10T16:27:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T16:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=3827"},"modified":"2021-11-10T16:27:41","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T16:27:41","slug":"who-am-i-trying-to-please-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2021\/11\/10\/who-am-i-trying-to-please-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Am I trying to Please?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: John 12:[43] for they loved praise from men more than praise from God. <\/p>\n<p>Observation: I feel that scripture was meant for me.  All of my life I tried so hard to get approval from the people around me.  I wasted so much time trying to get their approval, because I felt that is what would make me happy.  Even now knowing my Lord and Savior and all that He has done for me I still seek the approval of others.  God already loves me and to get His praise is all I need to do is His will.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to see God in my everyday life and seek His advice.  Before I try to please anyone I need to ask God if this pleases Him.  I know His will and I want to be obedient so I need to be with Him throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My Lord I want to hear what Jesus heard, \u201cthis is my son with whom I\u2019m well please.\u201d  Show me how to make you proud of me and help me through each day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: John 12:[43] for they loved praise from men more than praise from God. Observation: I feel that scripture was meant for me. All of my life I tried so hard to get approval from the people around me. I wasted so much time trying to get their approval, because I felt that is what &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3827","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\/3827","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=3827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3829,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3827\/revisions\/3829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}