{"id":8748,"date":"2026-01-20T14:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T14:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=8748"},"modified":"2026-01-20T14:27:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T14:27:00","slug":"being-prepared-for-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2026\/01\/20\/being-prepared-for-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Prepared for Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Ephesians 4: [12] to prepare God&#8217;s people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up<\/p>\n<p>Observation: I\u2019m one of God\u2019s people.  What a privilege that is.  Reading, praying and going to church is preparing me for service.  My purpose is to serve to build up the church, the body of Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to be more aggressive in my service to the church.  I also need to be prepared to know what to do.  I should take more classes at church, read more, get involved more and outline how God wants me to serve him by serving my church.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My Lord, you have blessed me with gifts and abilities.  May I use them each day to please you and build up your church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Ephesians 4: [12] to prepare God&#8217;s people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up Observation: I\u2019m one of God\u2019s people. What a privilege that is. Reading, praying and going to church is preparing me for service. My purpose is to serve to build up the church, the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8748","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\/8748","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=8748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8750,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8748\/revisions\/8750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}