{"id":9347,"date":"2026-07-29T13:28:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T13:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=9347"},"modified":"2026-07-29T13:28:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T13:28:06","slug":"keep-on-speaking-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/keep-on-speaking-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep on Speaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Acts 18: 9 One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision: &#8220;Do not be afraid; keep on speaking, do not be silent.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: Each day I\u2019m afraid.  Now I worry about money.  I bought a car I shouldn\u2019t have and put us in a bad financial situation.  My thoughts are occupied with I shouldn\u2019t have bought it and what do I do about it now?  Things like this effect my ministry and speaking out to others.  It effects my disposition that others see.  I talk about my problems instead of talking about Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I have nothing to fear if I believe God is in charge.  I have decisions to make, but I should make them with the guidance of God.  I need to trust God completely and make Him top priority in my life along with doing His will.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Lord increase my faith that I will trust you with all of my heart. Lean not on my own understanding, but in all my ways acknowledge you and you will make my path straight. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Acts 18: 9 One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision: &#8220;Do not be afraid; keep on speaking, do not be silent. Observation: Each day I\u2019m afraid. Now I worry about money. I bought a car I shouldn\u2019t have and put us in a bad financial situation. My thoughts are occupied with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9347","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\/9347","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=9347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9349,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9347\/revisions\/9349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}