{"id":8553,"date":"2025-11-16T14:33:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T14:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=8553"},"modified":"2025-11-16T14:33:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T14:33:57","slug":"the-lord-stands-near-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2025\/11\/16\/the-lord-stands-near-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lord Stands Near"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Acts 23:11 The following night the Lord stood near Paul and said, \u201cTake courage!  As you have testified about me in Jerusalem, so you must also testify in Rome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Observation: The Lord stood near and touched my heart the day I was saved.  I\u2019m constantly going through situations alone, but I don\u2019t have to, the Lord is standing next to me.  My mind is constantly going and I don\u2019t listen.  I wonder what my Lord might be saying to me?  He is probably saying the same thing as he said to Paul, take courage.  I\u2019m such a coward by the way I live my life I should be testifying about Jesus to the people He surrounds me with each day.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to live my life with Jesus standing nearby.  Knowing He can see my actions and hear my words.  I know I would live my life differently.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My Lord stand near me always and speak the words you desire me to hear.  I will obey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Acts 23:11 The following night the Lord stood near Paul and said, \u201cTake courage! As you have testified about me in Jerusalem, so you must also testify in Rome.\u201d Observation: The Lord stood near and touched my heart the day I was saved. I\u2019m constantly going through situations alone, but I don\u2019t have to, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8553","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\/8553","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=8553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8555,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8553\/revisions\/8555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}