{"id":1075,"date":"2016-02-08T10:23:57","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T10:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=1075"},"modified":"2016-02-07T17:28:53","modified_gmt":"2016-02-07T17:28:53","slug":"praying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2016\/02\/08\/praying\/","title":{"rendered":"Praying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Acts 12:5 So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: I pray every morning, but sometimes I realize it\u2019s becoming a routine and not an earnest prayer or an expected one.  I pray when it is convenient for me most of the time instead of making a commitment to earnestly seek God.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to take a special time with my Lord and pray, meditate and listen to what He wants me to do.  This is what God calls me to do, He wants a relationship with Him and not a one way one.  If I seek Him I will hear from Him.  Hearing from God needs to be a priority in my life.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Lord help me grow close to you.  Teach me how to pray and become this man you desire me to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Acts 12:5 So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him. Observation: I pray every morning, but sometimes I realize it\u2019s becoming a routine and not an earnest prayer or an expected one. I pray when it is convenient for me most of the time instead of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1075","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\/1075","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=1075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1077,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions\/1077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}