{"id":7517,"date":"2024-12-19T14:47:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T14:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=7517"},"modified":"2024-12-19T14:47:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T14:47:24","slug":"am-i-passing-the-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2024\/12\/19\/am-i-passing-the-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Am I Passing the Cup?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture Matthew 26:39 He went a little farther and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, \u201cO My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Observation: How many times do we pass the cup that God hands us?  We make excuses why we don\u2019t take it such as we are too busy, I don\u2019t think that\u2019s for me or we may just ignore it hoping it will go away.  God will never give us a cup as He gave Jesus.  The cup represents God\u2019s will and when we reject it, we are rejecting God.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to be willing always to take the cup God hands me, because He deserves my obedience.  God has only asked for my time and obedience, a small thing compared to all that He has given me.  When I take the cup He hands me I discover it is full of blessings.  God will never give us more than we can bear.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer My dear Father thank you for always being there, even before I knew You.  Hand me the cup You desire me to drink from and may I never question it, but be faithful in everything that You give me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture Matthew 26:39 He went a little farther and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, \u201cO My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will.\u201d Observation: How many times do we pass the cup that God hands us? We make excuses why &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7517","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\/7517","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=7517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7519,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7517\/revisions\/7519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}