{"id":8288,"date":"2025-08-23T13:34:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T13:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=8288"},"modified":"2025-08-23T13:34:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T13:34:06","slug":"watch-and-pray-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2025\/08\/23\/watch-and-pray-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch and Pray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Mathew 26:41 \u201cWatch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation.  The spirit is willing, but the body is weak.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: It\u2019s so easy to fall into temptation because in this world were tempted all the time.  With television, newspaper, billboards, internet and people that surround us it is so easy to go astray.  We are caught up in satisfying our flesh and we lose track of why we\u2019re here and that is to serve God.  So, if we don\u2019t watch out for temptation and stay close to God by prayer, temptation will take over.<\/p>\n<p>Application: To stay in a constant mode of prayer so when temptation comes, I can ask for God\u2019s help to defeat it.  May I recite the words of Jesus \u201caway from me Satan, as it is written worship the Lord your God only.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Lord keep me alert and be with me to fight temptation and to be focused on you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Mathew 26:41 \u201cWatch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak. Observation: It\u2019s so easy to fall into temptation because in this world were tempted all the time. With television, newspaper, billboards, internet and people that surround us it is so easy to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8288","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\/8288","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=8288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8290,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8288\/revisions\/8290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}