{"id":8676,"date":"2025-12-23T14:33:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T14:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=8676"},"modified":"2025-12-23T14:33:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T14:33:21","slug":"men-of-courage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2025\/12\/23\/men-of-courage\/","title":{"rendered":"Men of Courage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: 1 Corinthians 16: 13 Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be strong.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: I need to stand firm in faith.  I\u2019m always getting ahead of myself, and God, because I don\u2019t stand firm.  How many times does the Word tell us to stand still and wait on the Lord.  I need to be more aware of what God wants then stand strong that He will do it, which takes faith, trust and courage.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to mediate on God\u2019s word and listen to what God is telling me then trust it and take the steps God is directing me in.  I need to be more courageous and trusting, then stand firm and watch God work.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My Lord give me courage and strength to stand firm and then follow your lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: 1 Corinthians 16: 13 Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be strong. Observation: I need to stand firm in faith. I\u2019m always getting ahead of myself, and God, because I don\u2019t stand firm. How many times does the Word tell us to stand still and wait on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8676","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\/8676","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=8676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8678,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8676\/revisions\/8678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}