{"id":9168,"date":"2026-06-02T13:25:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T13:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=9168"},"modified":"2026-06-02T13:25:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T13:25:44","slug":"because-you-say-so-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/because-you-say-so-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Because You Say So"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Luke 5: 5 Simon answered, &#8220;Master, we&#8217;ve worked hard all night and haven&#8217;t caught anything. But because you say so, I will let down the nets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Observation: I usually make excuses to God why I can\u2019t do something or explain I already tried with no luck.  Unfortunately, I\u2019m not like Peter and goes ahead and does what Jesus wants me to do.  I believe God wants me to finish the counseling course and start writing again, yet I put it off saying I\u2019m too busy and there are other things to do.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to plan on getting the things my Lord wants me to do as first priority.  Start writing at least an hour a day and finish watching the the counseling ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Lord give me strength and discipline to fulfill the purpose you have created me for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Luke 5: 5 Simon answered, &#8220;Master, we&#8217;ve worked hard all night and haven&#8217;t caught anything. But because you say so, I will let down the nets.&#8221; Observation: I usually make excuses to God why I can\u2019t do something or explain I already tried with no luck. Unfortunately, I\u2019m not like Peter and goes ahead &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9168","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\/9168","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=9168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9170,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9168\/revisions\/9170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}