{"id":8556,"date":"2025-11-17T14:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T14:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=8556"},"modified":"2025-11-17T14:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T14:36:10","slug":"afraid-of-the-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2025\/11\/17\/afraid-of-the-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Afraid of the Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Acts 24:25 As Paul discoursed on righteousness, self-control and the judgment to come, Felix was afraid and said, \u201cThat\u2019s enough for now!  You may leave, when I find it convenient, I will send for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Observation: When we share God\u2019s word and people reject it there are consequences of eternal proportions.  People may listen to our testimony and feel good that we are doing better, but until it affects them, they are not going to change.  It\u2019s important to tell them where we would have been or what direction we were heading until God got control of our life.<\/p>\n<p>Application: To thank God each day for saving me from Hell, where I was heading.  Then to tell others where I would be now if it wasn\u2019t for God\u2019s grace.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Lord thank you for pulling my spirit from the direction I was heading and bringing me close to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Acts 24:25 As Paul discoursed on righteousness, self-control and the judgment to come, Felix was afraid and said, \u201cThat\u2019s enough for now! You may leave, when I find it convenient, I will send for you.\u201d Observation: When we share God\u2019s word and people reject it there are consequences of eternal proportions. People may listen &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8557,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8556","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\/8556","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=8556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8558,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8556\/revisions\/8558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}