{"id":9530,"date":"2026-09-22T13:22:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T13:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=9530"},"modified":"2026-09-22T13:22:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T13:22:26","slug":"power-made-in-weakness-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/22\/power-made-in-weakness-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Made in Weakness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: 2 Corinthians 12: [9] But he said to me, &#8220;My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.&#8221; Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ&#8217;s power may rest on me.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: My strength is when I realize I can\u2019t do anything good on my own.  I have no power of my own, just what is given to me from God.  That power is His grace, because I deserve nothing.  When I realize this and stop trying doing things in my own God can use His power to get things done.<\/p>\n<p>Application: Realize I have no power on my own and allow God to work through me.  He allows me to decide whether I submit myself to Him or allow my pride to try to make things work.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Lord please, I submit to you. Take control and use me in any way you desire.  I love you Lord.  Your servant, Mark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: 2 Corinthians 12: [9] But he said to me, &#8220;My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.&#8221; Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ&#8217;s power may rest on me. Observation: My strength is when I realize I can\u2019t do anything good &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9530","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\/9530","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=9530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9532,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9530\/revisions\/9532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}