{"id":9190,"date":"2026-06-09T13:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=9190"},"modified":"2026-06-09T13:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:26:08","slug":"acknowledging-jesus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/acknowledging-jesus-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Acknowledging Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Luke 12: 8 &#8220;I tell you, whoever acknowledges me before men, the Son of Man will also acknowledge him before the angels of God.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: How often in a day do I acknowledge God before people?  Do I let them use His name in vain without saying anything?  How many times do I say His name in appreciation?  Do the people around me know how I feel about my Lord and Savior?  Do people want to be introduced to Him by observing me?<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to be a better witness for Jesus.  I need to seek opportunities to tell others about my Lord and Savior.  I need to be a better example of who a follower of Jesus should be.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My Lord give me an opportunity to acknowledge you before others.  Give me that heart to honor you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Luke 12: 8 &#8220;I tell you, whoever acknowledges me before men, the Son of Man will also acknowledge him before the angels of God. Observation: How often in a day do I acknowledge God before people? Do I let them use His name in vain without saying anything? How many times do I say &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9190","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\/9190","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=9190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9192,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9190\/revisions\/9192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}