{"id":9079,"date":"2026-05-07T13:25:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=9079"},"modified":"2026-05-07T13:25:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:25:45","slug":"exalting-ourselves-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/exalting-ourselves-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Exalting Ourselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Matthew 23: [12] For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: I continue to want to be important and be recognized.  Even when I\u2019m trying to do something for God, I want to be acknowledged by others.  I know this is wrong and I need to humble myself and do things that honor God in secret, just for Him.  Why is this so difficult?  Is it my sin nature?<\/p>\n<p>Application: I have nothing to be proud of, all I have comes from God.  I need to be pointing others to Him, not me.  There is nothing I can do apart from God, yet I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.  Whenever I even think of exalting myself, I need to stop and humble myself and exalt God.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My Lord, you know every thought I have.  Help me be this humble man you call me to be, exalting your name above all, especially mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Matthew 23: [12] For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted. Observation: I continue to want to be important and be recognized. Even when I\u2019m trying to do something for God, I want to be acknowledged by others. I know this is wrong and I need to humble &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9079","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\/9079","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=9079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9081,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9079\/revisions\/9081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}