{"id":706,"date":"2015-10-02T10:44:56","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T10:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=706"},"modified":"2015-10-01T23:51:38","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T23:51:38","slug":"hows-my-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2015\/10\/02\/hows-my-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"How\u2019s My Speech?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Matthew 12: [34] You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: Even though I try each day to speak words of love and encouragement to honor God, it doesn\u2019t take long before I say a sarcastic remark, a hurtful statement or an angry word.  For me to say good things I need to think about it, yet to say unkind words they come out immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to work harder on my heart instead of my speech.  I need to appreciate all that God has given me and build that in my heart.  I need to pray for a softening of my heart.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My Lord soften this servant\u2019s heart that it will honor you with my actions, thoughts and words.  Use me as an encourager in this world to honor you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Matthew 12: [34] You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks. Observation: Even though I try each day to speak words of love and encouragement to honor God, it doesn\u2019t take long before I say a sarcastic remark, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706","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\/706","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=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions\/708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}