{"id":4149,"date":"2022-02-13T16:10:30","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T16:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=4149"},"modified":"2022-02-13T16:10:30","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T16:10:30","slug":"help-me-finish-this-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2022\/02\/13\/help-me-finish-this-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Me Finish This Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Philippians 1: [6] being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. <\/p>\n<p>Observation: When I was first saved I couldn\u2019t do enough for my Lord.  I wanted to find out what He wanted of me and then do it.  I was always in some ministry, leading home fellowships, planning an outreach or serving at the church.  I wanted everyone to know that I was a Christian and I knew God had something special in mind for me.  However as time went on my enthusiasm has faded, I make excuses and have become lazy in serving God. <\/p>\n<p>Application: I still know God has things He wants me to d and I have been doing some things with the Depression ministry, but not enough.  I need to allow God to work through this servant and allow Him to finish this work that He begun in me.  I can see there is so much I can be used for in God\u2019s glory, but I need to get up and make myself available.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My lord forgive this lazy servant.  Please finish this work you begun in me and may it come to completion before I go home to be with you.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Philippians 1: [6] being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. Observation: When I was first saved I couldn\u2019t do enough for my Lord. I wanted to find out what He wanted of me and then do &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4149","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\/4149","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=4149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4151,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4149\/revisions\/4151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}