{"id":8547,"date":"2025-11-14T14:30:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T14:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=8547"},"modified":"2025-11-14T14:30:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T14:30:25","slug":"being-bound-for-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2025\/11\/14\/being-bound-for-christ\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Bound for Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Acts 21:13 Then Paul answered, \u201dWhy are you weeping and breaking my heart?  I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Observation: I wonder how ready I am at times.  Paul was ready to die for the name of Jesus and sometimes I\u2019m not even ready to face embarrassment.  I would like to have Paul\u2019s conviction and faith.  My focus is too much on this world and not enough on the mission God has given me.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to get myself ready to die for the name of my Lord, Jesus.  To face ridicule, embarrassment and anything else so that I proclaim his name.  I need to lay down the luxuries of this life to build up my treasures in heaven.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My God give me Paul\u2019s conviction and faith and use me this day to please and honor you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Acts 21:13 Then Paul answered, \u201dWhy are you weeping and breaking my heart? I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.\u201d Observation: I wonder how ready I am at times. Paul was ready to die for the name of Jesus and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8548,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8547","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\/8547","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=8547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8549,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8547\/revisions\/8549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}