{"id":8270,"date":"2025-08-17T13:48:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T13:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=8270"},"modified":"2025-08-17T13:48:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T13:48:52","slug":"to-be-a-slave-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2025\/08\/17\/to-be-a-slave-2\/","title":{"rendered":"To Be a Slave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Mathew 20:27 and whoever wants to be first must be your slave<\/p>\n<p>Observation: We are called to serve and we need to take the characteristics of a slave.  Putting the desires of others above our own, giving completely of ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to stop putting so much importance on my time serving myself.  To put off what I want to do when I can be doing something for someone else.  The most precious thing I have on this earth is time and I need to be giving more to others in Jesus\u2019 name.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Lord may my focus be on you and your desires for me to serve.  I freely give you my life as a living sacrifice, may it be pleasing to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Mathew 20:27 and whoever wants to be first must be your slave Observation: We are called to serve and we need to take the characteristics of a slave. Putting the desires of others above our own, giving completely of ourselves. Application: I need to stop putting so much importance on my time serving myself. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8270","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\/8270","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=8270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8272,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8270\/revisions\/8272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}