{"id":7905,"date":"2025-04-22T13:40:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T13:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=7905"},"modified":"2025-04-22T13:40:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T13:40:55","slug":"comforting-others-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2025\/04\/22\/comforting-others-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Comforting Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture 2 Corinthians 1:4 who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. <\/p>\n<p>Observation: This is one of my favorite scriptures, because it is how God is using me.  I suffered from depression most of my life and now as God is guiding me through my depression, I\u2019m able to give others hope and guidance on how to be released by its grasp.  God has allowed me to speak to others, write and teach on my experiences with depression and He has used these efforts to help others.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to continue to use what God has given me and share the comfort that God gave me in my darkest times.  Sharing my testimony helps show me how God reached down and changed my life and how He works in me each day.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer My Lord thank you for comforting your servant who does not deserve your love.  Put those in my path that are in need of the testimony you have blessed me with and use it to draw them close to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture 2 Corinthians 1:4 who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. Observation: This is one of my favorite scriptures, because it is how God is using me. I suffered from depression &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7905","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\/7905","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=7905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7907,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7905\/revisions\/7907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}