{"id":8292,"date":"2025-08-24T13:43:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T13:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=8292"},"modified":"2025-08-24T13:43:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T13:43:35","slug":"forced-to-carry-the-cross-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2025\/08\/24\/forced-to-carry-the-cross-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Forced to Carry the Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Mathew 27:32 As they were going out they met a man from Cyrene named Simon and they forced him to carry the cross<\/p>\n<p>Observation: Forced him to carry the cross.  Jesus says to take up your cross and follow me.  How many times I feel I\u2019m forced yet my Lord willingly took the cross for me.  He asks so little for giving me so much<\/p>\n<p>Application: I should gladly take the cross and carry it knowing my Lord is with me and carry it honor to him.  My burdens are so small yet I complain. I need to stop complaining and just do what I know my God wants me to do.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My Lord give me the strength to gladly take my cross and follow you knowing you are with me each step of the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Mathew 27:32 As they were going out they met a man from Cyrene named Simon and they forced him to carry the cross Observation: Forced him to carry the cross. Jesus says to take up your cross and follow me. How many times I feel I\u2019m forced yet my Lord willingly took the cross &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8292","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\/8292","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=8292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8294,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8292\/revisions\/8294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}