{"id":9537,"date":"2026-09-24T13:19:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T13:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=9537"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:19:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T13:19:19","slug":"because-of-me-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/24\/because-of-me-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Because of Me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Galatians 1: [24] And they praised God because of me.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: Does anyone praise God because of me?  I\u2019m supposed to be living a life honoring God.  If I was, I would be loving, giving, caring for others and pointing them to God.  I looked back at the last few weeks and can\u2019t think of one instance that anyone would praise God because of me.  It wouldn\u2019t take a lot to reach out and contact someone, help someone with a chore, give money to someone in need without them asking, invite someone over for dinner or to show someone my heart belongs to God.<\/p>\n<p>Application: Stop just passing by people and start looking at them with the heart of God.  Look for small opportunities to help or to smile and greet a stranger. Be more aware of my neighbors and find ways to help get out of my comfort zone.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Lord, I thank you for all you give me, may I share it with others in glory and honor to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Galatians 1: [24] And they praised God because of me. Observation: Does anyone praise God because of me? I\u2019m supposed to be living a life honoring God. If I was, I would be loving, giving, caring for others and pointing them to God. I looked back at the last few weeks and can\u2019t think &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9537","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\/9537","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=9537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9539,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9537\/revisions\/9539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}