{"id":2934,"date":"2021-01-30T21:17:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T21:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=2934"},"modified":"2021-01-30T21:17:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T21:17:09","slug":"god-has-mercy-on-sinners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2021\/01\/30\/god-has-mercy-on-sinners\/","title":{"rendered":"God Has Mercy on Sinners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Luke 18: 13 &#8220;But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, `God, have mercy on me, a sinner.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Observation: God had mercy on this sinner.  When I was totally lost and had nowhere else to go, instead of letting me have what I deserved, God had mercy on me.  He lifted this sinner up and took me by the hand and has been leading me through this life.<\/p>\n<p>Application: To humble myself each day and ask God to guide me.  To know I need God\u2019s mercy each day and to seek him and to thank him.  To live a life dependent on him.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Lord I thank you for your mercy and I humble myself before you.  Help me be this man you call me to be and direct my path, that I may fulfill the purpose you have created me for.  You are worthy of all that I am, show me how to honor you today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Luke 18: 13 &#8220;But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, `God, have mercy on me, a sinner.&#8217; Observation: God had mercy on this sinner. When I was totally lost and had nowhere else to go, instead of letting me &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2935,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2934","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\/2934","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=2934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2936,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934\/revisions\/2936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}