{"id":8537,"date":"2025-11-11T14:35:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T14:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=8537"},"modified":"2025-11-11T14:35:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T14:35:46","slug":"keep-on-speaking-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2025\/11\/11\/keep-on-speaking-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep on Speaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Acts 18:9 One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision, \u201cDo not be afraid, keep on speaking, do not be silent.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: Keep on speaking, why is it so hard sometimes even to say \u201cGod Bless\u201d instead of good bye. To show others I am a Christian instead of trying to blend in.  His Word says do not be afraid.  What am I afraid of?  Do not be silent, I need to speak out if I don\u2019t I disobey God\u2019s Word.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need not to be afraid and to be bold when it comes to expressing my faith.  I need to overcome possible embarrassment or rejections from others opposed to disappointing my God.  To know every time, I speak out I\u2019m praising God and being obedient.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My Lord give me strength to speak out and not be silent but proclaim my love for you and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Acts 18:9 One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision, \u201cDo not be afraid, keep on speaking, do not be silent. Observation: Keep on speaking, why is it so hard sometimes even to say \u201cGod Bless\u201d instead of good bye. To show others I am a Christian instead of trying to blend &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8537","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\/8537","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=8537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8539,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8537\/revisions\/8539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}