{"id":8497,"date":"2025-10-29T13:44:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T13:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=8497"},"modified":"2025-10-29T13:44:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T13:44:39","slug":"worthy-of-suffering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2025\/10\/29\/worthy-of-suffering\/","title":{"rendered":"Worthy of Suffering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Acts 5:41 The apostles left the Sanhedrin rejoicing, because they had been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: I should want to be worthy, but why am I so afraid to suffer?  I\u2019m afraid to even be embarrassed proclaiming Jesus to others.  My faith is still so weak I need to be strengthened because I do not want to be counted unworthy by God.<\/p>\n<p>Application: Get my priorities in line putting God first.  If I understand my purpose and I\u2019m driven by what I need to do I will accomplish my purpose.  My goal is to spread the gospel and any indication that I am accomplishing my goal, including suffering, I should rejoice.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Lord fill me with the Holy Spirit and guide this servant to be worthy of suffering for your name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Acts 5:41 The apostles left the Sanhedrin rejoicing, because they had been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name. Observation: I should want to be worthy, but why am I so afraid to suffer? I\u2019m afraid to even be embarrassed proclaiming Jesus to others. My faith is still so weak I need to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8497","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\/8497","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=8497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8499,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8497\/revisions\/8499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}