{"id":9243,"date":"2026-06-26T13:26:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T13:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=9243"},"modified":"2026-06-26T13:26:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T13:26:44","slug":"obtaining-gods-praise-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2026\/06\/26\/obtaining-gods-praise-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Obtaining God\u2019s Praise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: John 5: [44] How can you believe if you accept praise from one another, yet make no effort to obtain the praise that comes from the only God?<\/p>\n<p>Observation: Most of the time I seek to get praise from others. I want to hear good things about me.  I try to impress others with my abilities, waiting to be recognized.  God calls me to do good in private and he\u2019ll see it and that\u2019s all that matters. <\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to try to earn the praise of God by doing His will in the way He wants it done.  He calls me to be humble, loving, honest, caring and a man of integrity.  May I live a life that God can look down on me and say, \u201cthat\u2019s my boy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My Lord take this pride from my spirit and open my eyes to the man you want me to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: John 5: [44] How can you believe if you accept praise from one another, yet make no effort to obtain the praise that comes from the only God? Observation: Most of the time I seek to get praise from others. I want to hear good things about me. I try to impress others with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9243","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\/9243","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=9243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9245,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9243\/revisions\/9245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}