{"id":1872,"date":"2019-03-24T15:21:21","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T15:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=1872"},"modified":"2019-03-24T15:21:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T15:21:21","slug":"not-my-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2019\/03\/24\/not-my-will\/","title":{"rendered":"Not My Will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Matthew 26:39 Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, \u201cMy Father, if it is possible may this cup be taken from me, yet not as I will, but as you will.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Observation: God\u2019s will is what I should be living for, but it is normally my will that I follow.  I do what is convenient for me and talk myself out of doing what I know God wants of me.  If it takes much effort and sacrifice rarely do I do it.<\/p>\n<p>Application: My life was created for a purpose and that is to do God\u2019s will.  I need to hold myself accountable to do the will of God.  Pray each day for God\u2019s guidance in what He desires of me then do it, even though I might get to bed later, miss doing something I want to do or anything else.  My main focus should be doing the will of my Father.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: dear Lord open my eyes to your will.  Make me obedient to your desires and give me the strength and discipline to do what is right in your eyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Matthew 26:39 Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, \u201cMy Father, if it is possible may this cup be taken from me, yet not as I will, but as you will.\u201d Observation: God\u2019s will is what I should be living for, but it is normally my will &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1872","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\/1872","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=1872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1874,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions\/1874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}