{"id":7455,"date":"2024-11-29T14:55:40","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T14:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=7455"},"modified":"2024-11-29T14:55:40","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T14:55:40","slug":"our-light-needs-to-shine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2024\/11\/29\/our-light-needs-to-shine\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Light Needs to Shine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture Matthew 5:16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven. <\/p>\n<p>Observation: My actions must be holy and pleasing to God in a way that others can see God\u2019s glory in my life.  I enjoy walking the strand and harbor each day saying good morning, talking and praying with others because I know it honors and pleases God.  I love when my light shines so that others can see and are encouraged by what God has me doing.<\/p>\n<p>Application: The last couple of days people have been encouraging me to continue praying with others.  The last six months have been my best as God walks with me each day.  I need to continue to listen to God and what He wants of me.  I need to control my actions and emotions so that others can only see the light God has put in me.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer My Lord thank you for this awesome responsibility You have given me.  Continue to use me in a way that others can see my love for You.  Help me be bold in telling others how awesome You are.  Thank you, Lord, for all that You bless me with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture Matthew 5:16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven. Observation: My actions must be holy and pleasing to God in a way that others can see God\u2019s glory in my life. I enjoy walking the strand and harbor each day saying &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7455","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\/7455","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=7455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7457,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7455\/revisions\/7457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}