{"id":9088,"date":"2026-05-10T13:25:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T13:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=9088"},"modified":"2026-05-10T13:25:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T13:25:35","slug":"the-spirit-is-willing-but-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/10\/the-spirit-is-willing-but-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spirit is Willing, But"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Matthew 26: [41] &#8220;Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Observation: So many times, I have good intentions in doing the right thing, but my laziness takes over and I end up doing nothing.  The temptation of taking the easy way out wins and more wasted time is added to my life as my time draws near to an end.<\/p>\n<p>Application: Once I have a plan of doing something good, I need to pray and ask God for strength to complete it.  I need to remove any obstacle from the path of completing the mission God has in store for me and ask God to strengthen the spirit within me.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Lord be my strength and guide me to the completion of the task you set before me.  Use the talents you have given me that I may honor you this day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Matthew 26: [41] &#8220;Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak.&#8221; Observation: So many times, I have good intentions in doing the right thing, but my laziness takes over and I end up doing nothing. The temptation of taking the easy way &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9089,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9088","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\/9088","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=9088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9090,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9088\/revisions\/9090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}