{"id":8701,"date":"2026-01-05T14:45:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T14:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=8701"},"modified":"2026-01-05T14:45:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T14:45:26","slug":"privilege-of-sharing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2026\/01\/05\/privilege-of-sharing\/","title":{"rendered":"Privilege of Sharing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: 2 Corinthians 8: [4] they urgently pleaded with us for the privilege of sharing in this service to the saints.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: Do I urgently plead to serve or am I reluctant?  Most of the time I make excuses why I can\u2019t do something and when I do it\u2019s out of pride, because I feel I\u2019m the only one that can accomplish the task.  I tithe but rarely do I give any more than that.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I should look for the opportunity to give and to serve.  I should be excited of the prospect of being able to serve and give and thank God for the abilities He has given me and the resources I have.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My Lord may I glorify your name with my generosity and eagerness to give and serve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: 2 Corinthians 8: [4] they urgently pleaded with us for the privilege of sharing in this service to the saints. Observation: Do I urgently plead to serve or am I reluctant? Most of the time I make excuses why I can\u2019t do something and when I do it\u2019s out of pride, because I feel &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8701","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\/8701","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=8701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8703,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8701\/revisions\/8703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}