{"id":9486,"date":"2026-09-07T13:24:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T13:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=9486"},"modified":"2026-09-07T13:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T13:24:14","slug":"building-up-the-church-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/building-up-the-church-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Up the Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: 1 Corinthians 14: [12] So it is with you. Since you are eager to have spiritual gifts, try to excel in gifts that build up the church.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: God has blessed me with certain gifts, some I use to build up the church, others I use selfishly.  At times my pride holds back the use of these gifts and other times I accept the praise of others without pointing to God who gave them to me.  Most of the gifts and talents God has given me can benefit the church, but I use them sparingly instead of generously.<\/p>\n<p>Application: God gave me my gifts and talents for His use, not mine.  I need to stop being so lazy and find ways to use my gifts to glorify God.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Lord, I freely give you this life as a living sacrifice, may it be holy and pleasing to you.  May the talents you have given me multiply back to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: 1 Corinthians 14: [12] So it is with you. Since you are eager to have spiritual gifts, try to excel in gifts that build up the church. Observation: God has blessed me with certain gifts, some I use to build up the church, others I use selfishly. At times my pride holds back the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9486","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\/9486","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=9486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9488,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9486\/revisions\/9488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}