{"id":9437,"date":"2026-08-24T13:25:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T13:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=9437"},"modified":"2026-08-24T13:25:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T13:25:58","slug":"a-servant-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2026\/08\/24\/a-servant-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A Servant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Romans 16: 1 I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church in Cenchrea.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: That is what I should be known as, a servant of the church.  Several times as I would serve instead of doing it for God, I enjoyed the praise I received from others.  I\u2019m only doing these things because God has allowed me, given me the talents and desires it of me.  When I serve, it should always be for the glory of God.<\/p>\n<p>Application: When I\u2019m serving, It needs to be glorifying God.  The credit needs to point to Him and God alone.  I\u2019m not only a servant of the church, but most importantly a servant of God<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Lord, I thank you for the gifts, talents and abilities you have given me.  May they be used for your glory and multiply by your power in honor to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Romans 16: 1 I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church in Cenchrea. Observation: That is what I should be known as, a servant of the church. Several times as I would serve instead of doing it for God, I enjoyed the praise I received from others. I\u2019m only doing &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9437","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\/9437","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=9437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9439,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9437\/revisions\/9439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}