{"id":8435,"date":"2025-10-09T13:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T13:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=8435"},"modified":"2025-10-09T13:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T13:31:09","slug":"the-praise-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2025\/10\/09\/the-praise-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"The Praise of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: John 5:44 How can you believe if you accept praise from one another, yet make no effort to obtain the praise that comes from the only God?<\/p>\n<p>Observation: I realize how many things I do, to try to win the praise of others.  Even when I think I\u2019m doing something for God I look for the praise of the people around me.  When I do something private for God however, I feel his praise which so surpasses that of men.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to do more things for God quietly, just for him.  Even though most of the things I do are for other people and are visible by others, God needs to get all the glory.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My Lord may I live each day seeking your praise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: John 5:44 How can you believe if you accept praise from one another, yet make no effort to obtain the praise that comes from the only God? Observation: I realize how many things I do, to try to win the praise of others. Even when I think I\u2019m doing something for God I look &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8436,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8435","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\/8435","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=8435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8437,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8435\/revisions\/8437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}