{"id":8320,"date":"2025-09-02T14:16:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T14:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=8320"},"modified":"2025-09-02T14:16:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T14:16:48","slug":"forfeiting-your-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2025\/09\/02\/forfeiting-your-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"Forfeiting your Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Mark 8:36 What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?<\/p>\n<p>Observation: How many times I forfeit my soul to gain something in this world.  A lie to sell something, justifying taking things from work, listening to a joke I should walk away from, missing an opportunity to witness to someone, not giving to someone so I can have more.  Each day seems I trade my soul a little at a time to gain something in this world.<\/p>\n<p>Application: To make my soul \u201cmy Character\u201d my most prized possession I have and to never trade it for anything in this world.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My Lord guide me this day to make decisions that honor you and keep my soul intact for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Mark 8:36 What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul? Observation: How many times I forfeit my soul to gain something in this world. A lie to sell something, justifying taking things from work, listening to a joke I should walk away from, missing an opportunity &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8320","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\/8320","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=8320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8322,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8320\/revisions\/8322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}