{"id":8972,"date":"2026-04-03T13:28:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=8972"},"modified":"2026-04-03T13:28:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:28:29","slug":"i-dont-want-to-be-lukewarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/i-dont-want-to-be-lukewarm\/","title":{"rendered":"I Don\u2019t Want to Be Lukewarm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Revelations 3: [16] So, because you are lukewarm&#8211;neither hot nor cold&#8211;I am about to spit you out of my mouth.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: Sometimes that is how I feel about myself and my church, we\u2019re lukewarm.  Searching to do what is honoring and fulfilling our purpose, but stopping short.  The fire of the Holy spirit seems quenched at times because of laziness and lack of love for God.  At times I can imagine God looking down and how distasteful I must be for all He has done for me.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to make every effort to build up the fire within me.  I need to look for ways to fulfill my calling and make myself too hot to handle.  I want the world to see me burn with the Holy Spirit that it would be so bright they would have to notice.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My Lord fill me with the Holy Spirit that I will be pleasing in your sight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Revelations 3: [16] So, because you are lukewarm&#8211;neither hot nor cold&#8211;I am about to spit you out of my mouth. Observation: Sometimes that is how I feel about myself and my church, we\u2019re lukewarm. Searching to do what is honoring and fulfilling our purpose, but stopping short. The fire of the Holy spirit seems &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8972","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\/8972","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=8972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8974,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8972\/revisions\/8974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}