Scripture Luke 9:23 Then He said to them all, \u201cIf anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me. <\/p>\n
Observation: Following Jesus is a day by day honor. We can\u2019t forecast what we will be doing a week, month or year ahead of time, but we can plan a day at a time. Each morning, I pray read the word and ask God to direct me that day. It seems simple enough to pick up my cross a day at a time, but the enemy will do whatever he can to distract me from my mission. A day at a time is still a journey and we need to be prepared for it.<\/p>\n
Application: My day is beginning and before I go out of my house, I need to pick up the cross Jesus has given me. It\u2019s not heavy because He carries it with me, but I need to remember it is there as I speak to people, knowing my actions might be noticed by others. Before I speak or do I need to think of the cross that Jesus bore for me and honor Him with this day.<\/p>\n
Prayer My Lord thank you for your sacrifice. Words can\u2019t describe my appreciation for you being in my life. I ask You to rule me today and put me on the path Yu have chosen for me and that I won\u2019t forget whose I am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Scripture Luke 9:23 Then He said to them all, \u201cIf anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me. Observation: Following Jesus is a day by day honor. We can\u2019t forecast what we will be doing a week, month or year ahead of time, but …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7602","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\/7602","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=7602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7604,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7602\/revisions\/7604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}