{"id":7930,"date":"2025-04-30T13:43:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T13:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=7930"},"modified":"2025-04-30T13:43:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T13:43:44","slug":"am-i-a-cheerful-giver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2025\/04\/30\/am-i-a-cheerful-giver\/","title":{"rendered":"Am I A Cheerful Giver?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture 2 Corinthians 9:7 So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver. <\/p>\n<p>Observation: Before Jesus entered my life I didn\u2019t give anyone anything.  I was very selfish with my money and time.  That was one of the first things the Holy Spirit did in me was to give me a giving heart.  Since then, I\u2019ve been faithful to give and that giving has brought me joy and no matter what I go through God makes sure my needs are met.  <\/p>\n<p>Application:  I need to seek the needs of others besides my own.  Even though I\u2019m retired and living on Social Security I need to find a way to help others.  I\u2019m using the extra time God has given me to bless others each day and when I can I give with a cheerful heart.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer My Lord show me how to use all that you have given me to help others in your name.  Bless me today as I walk along to be there for someone who needs you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture 2 Corinthians 9:7 So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver. Observation: Before Jesus entered my life I didn\u2019t give anyone anything. I was very selfish with my money and time. That was one of the first things the Holy &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7931,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7930","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\/7930","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=7930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7932,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7930\/revisions\/7932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}