{"id":2801,"date":"2020-12-12T16:57:37","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T16:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=2801"},"modified":"2020-12-12T16:57:37","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T16:57:37","slug":"if-you-believe-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2020\/12\/12\/if-you-believe-2\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Believe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Matthew 21: [22] If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Observation: That\u2019s the hard part for me if I believe.  I\u2019m not sure why it\u2019s so hard for me to believe when God proves himself over and over again.  He is always faithful and always there for me yet my lack of faith at times is unbelievable.  My prayers will always be empty until I believe first that they will be answered.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to trust God completely or I\u2019ll never be able to fulfill the purpose He has created me for.  Believe first that what I ask for is already done, according to his will and not doubt.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer:  Dear Lord help my unbelief.  Open my eyes to your love and give me the strength to live this life the way you desire it to be lived.  Increase my faith and draw me nearer to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Matthew 21: [22] If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.&#8221; Observation: That\u2019s the hard part for me if I believe. I\u2019m not sure why it\u2019s so hard for me to believe when God proves himself over and over again. He is always faithful and always there for me yet &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2801","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\/2801","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=2801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2804,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801\/revisions\/2804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}