{"id":8562,"date":"2025-11-19T14:24:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T14:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=8562"},"modified":"2025-11-19T14:24:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T14:24:26","slug":"persuading-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2025\/11\/19\/persuading-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Persuading Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Acts 26:28 Then Agrippa said to Paul, \u201cDo you think in such a short time you can persuade me to be a Christian?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Observation: I was thinking how long it took me to become a Christian.  All the ways God guided me and I refused to turn to him.  God spared my life when I tried to take it and I still wasn\u2019t persuaded.  It took other people to open my eyes and to even get me into a church.  Each person, book and sermon lead the way to that special day when I committed my life to Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Application: To be able to speak out for Christ no matter what the reaction is.  Knowing my encounter with that person may only be a stepping stone to salvation.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My Lord if you can use anything use me to speak out and share with others what you have done for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Acts 26:28 Then Agrippa said to Paul, \u201cDo you think in such a short time you can persuade me to be a Christian?\u201d Observation: I was thinking how long it took me to become a Christian. All the ways God guided me and I refused to turn to him. God spared my life when &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8562","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\/8562","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=8562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8564,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8562\/revisions\/8564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}