{"id":9057,"date":"2026-04-30T13:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=9057"},"modified":"2026-04-30T13:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:26:10","slug":"taking-up-the-cross-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/taking-up-the-cross-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking Up the Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Matthew 16: 24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, &#8220;If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: It is so hard to deny myself since I spend so much time thinking of what I want and my needs.  My focus is what I want in this world instead of what God wants me to have.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to stop focusing on me and forget what I want and start focusing on Jesus.  It doesn\u2019t need to be long range, but each day to follow Christ.  My cross is selfishness and I need to carry that to Christ so He can release me of it.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My Lord show me how to live this day.  Your burden is light and I know you are there with me.  Show me how to live in victory today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Matthew 16: 24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, &#8220;If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. Observation: It is so hard to deny myself since I spend so much time thinking of what I want and my needs. My focus is what I &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9057","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\/9057","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=9057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9059,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9057\/revisions\/9059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}