{"id":7686,"date":"2025-02-11T14:36:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T14:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=7686"},"modified":"2025-02-11T14:36:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T14:36:21","slug":"looking-for-praise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2025\/02\/11\/looking-for-praise\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for Praise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture John 12:43 for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God. <\/p>\n<p>Observation: This has been a problem of mine.  I do seek the praise from God, but I still want the praise of men.  I want to feel important in this world and that is one of my greatest sins.  I know the only praise that means anything is glorifying God and I start each day trying to accomplish that, but as soon as anyone says anything good about me, I get prideful.<\/p>\n<p>Application: Anything that people see that is good in me I need to give God the glory, because that is where it came from.  There is nothing good in me apart from my Lord and others need to know that I represent my Lord and not myself.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer My Lord I\u2019m yours and I want to glorify You today.  May others see You in me and may I always give you the praise You deserve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture John 12:43 for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God. Observation: This has been a problem of mine. I do seek the praise from God, but I still want the praise of men. I want to feel important in this world and that is one of my greatest sins. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7686","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\/7686","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=7686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7688,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7686\/revisions\/7688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}