{"id":8902,"date":"2026-03-12T13:22:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T13:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=8902"},"modified":"2026-03-12T13:22:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T13:22:34","slug":"one-tongue-two-uses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/one-tongue-two-uses\/","title":{"rendered":"One Tongue Two Uses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: James 3:9 With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God\u2019s likeness.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: Each morning, I praise God, pray to Him asking that He would make me the man He wants me to be.  It\u2019s not too much longer that I will say something about someone or say something to someone that proves I\u2019m not as close to God as I say.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nApplication: I realize after I say something it was wrong.  I need to think before I speak and how it represents my Lord and what effect it will have on the person I\u2019m talking to.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My Lord tame my tongue.  May it be used only to praise you and build others up in your name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: James 3:9 With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God\u2019s likeness. Observation: Each morning, I praise God, pray to Him asking that He would make me the man He wants me to be. It\u2019s not too much longer that I will &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8903,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8902","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\/8902","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=8902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8904,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8902\/revisions\/8904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}