{"id":2368,"date":"2020-07-21T15:10:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T15:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=2368"},"modified":"2020-07-21T15:10:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T15:10:09","slug":"do-i-possess-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2020\/07\/21\/do-i-possess-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Do I Possess Love?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:7 It always protects, always trust, always hopes, always perseveres.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: I tell my wife several times a day that I love her, but do I really know what love is?  I feel I will protect her, yet I have a difficult time with trust, not even God some of the time, I worry constantly so my hope is weak and I want to give up a lot of the time so I don\u2019t persevere.  I really feel I love my wife, more than anything, but yet I don\u2019t know how to love completely.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to work on loving, it\u2019s not a feeling but a decision I need to make.  I need to make a better effort to trust God each day and to be a trustworthy person, I need to accept the fact that God is in control and that he loves me and that my hope is in him.  Then I need to persevere in his love and complete the task he set before me.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Lord show me how to love in a way that will honor you today.  Strengthen my faith that I will spread this love to others and be pleasing to you.  I do love you and desire to be obedient and pleasing in your sight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:7 It always protects, always trust, always hopes, always perseveres. Observation: I tell my wife several times a day that I love her, but do I really know what love is? I feel I will protect her, yet I have a difficult time with trust, not even God some of the time, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2368","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\/2368","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=2368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2370,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions\/2370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}