{"id":9023,"date":"2026-04-19T13:36:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T13:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=9023"},"modified":"2026-04-19T13:36:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T13:36:41","slug":"im-the-light-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/im-the-light-2\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m the Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Matthew 5: 14 &#8220;You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: God saved me for a purpose and part of that purpose is  to be a light in this world and to spread the gospel.  If I\u2019m not different from a person not saved what good am I?  It needs to be obvious that I\u2019m different, I need to be a light for those that are lost and point them in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to show the joy of the Lord to those around me.  To show the people God puts around me or in my path there is something different about me.  I need to stop worrying and being anxious and start being positive and tell others why.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My Lord fill me with the Holy Spirit and light me up.  May a glance of your spirit make others wonder about what I have, that they don\u2019t.  May I be bold in expressing how you have blessed my life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Matthew 5: 14 &#8220;You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. Observation: God saved me for a purpose and part of that purpose is to be a light in this world and to spread the gospel. If I\u2019m not different from a person not saved what good &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9024,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9023","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\/9023","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=9023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9025,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9023\/revisions\/9025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}