{"id":9070,"date":"2026-05-04T13:19:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T13:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=9070"},"modified":"2026-05-04T13:19:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T13:19:25","slug":"to-be-a-servant-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/to-be-a-servant-2\/","title":{"rendered":"To Be a Servant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Matthew 20: [26] Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,<\/p>\n<p>Observation: When Jesus entered my life the one thing that He changed was to give me more of a servant\u2019s heart.  To heal me He took the focus off me and directed onto the needs of others.  Now my joy comes from doing something for others instead of myself.  My depression was gone when I was doing what God wanted me to do, serve.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I continue to get lazy and do nothing or very little at times.  I start with good intentions then when the time comes to do what God wants me to do, I become lazy.  I need to search for God\u2019s direction, knowing if I do anything to serve someone else, I\u2019m in God\u2019s will.  I need to complete the task with joy and love never begrudgingly. <\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My Lord use this servant to serve others in your name and glorify you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Matthew 20: [26] Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, Observation: When Jesus entered my life the one thing that He changed was to give me more of a servant\u2019s heart. To heal me He took the focus off me and directed onto the needs &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9070","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\/9070","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=9070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9072,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9070\/revisions\/9072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}