{"id":2030,"date":"2019-08-24T15:01:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T15:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=2030"},"modified":"2019-08-24T15:01:20","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T15:01:20","slug":"i-was-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2019\/08\/24\/i-was-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"I Was Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Luke 15:32 But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found<\/p>\n<p>Observation: That was me, lost.  I spent most of my life living my way without concern for God or family.  I didn\u2019t care about anything but myself.  Then God turned my life around.  Putting people in my life, drawing me nearer to him until finally the day came to receive Jesus as my Lord and Savior.  I can picture him running down the aisle at church and embracing me that day.<\/p>\n<p>Application: It\u2019s time to get busy and help others realize the love of God and how he waits for them.  I should be busy fulfilling my calling of spreading the gospel, bringing others home to the Father.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Lord I\u2019m weak and sinful.  I need the filling of the Holt Spirit and power to do your will.  Be with me Lord and guide me tonight as I\u2019m part of the street evangelism team.  Open a door for me to witness to someone in your name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Luke 15:32 But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found Observation: That was me, lost. I spent most of my life living my way without concern for God or family. I didn\u2019t care about anything but myself. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2031,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2030","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\/2030","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=2030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2032,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions\/2032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}