{"id":3223,"date":"2021-05-03T15:25:33","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T15:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=3223"},"modified":"2021-05-03T15:25:33","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T15:25:33","slug":"i-want-to-be-home-with-the-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2021\/05\/03\/i-want-to-be-home-with-the-lord\/","title":{"rendered":"I Want to Be Home with the Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5 [8] We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: So many times I ask God to bring me home because it\u2019s so hard to live here at times.  I just want peace and to be with my Maker and not deal with the struggles here.  Deep down I know I\u2019m here for a reason and it\u2019s not my will, but God\u2019s that must be done.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to realize I\u2019m only here because it\u2019s God\u2019s desire that I am and He will decide when it\u2019s time for me to come home to Him.  Give each day to God and be quiet and listen to what He has in store for me.  Build up my treasures in heaven here so when I get home I will have something to offer.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Lord give me the strength and courage to live each day for you.  Guide me on how to fulfill the purpose you have created me for and that I will hear the words will done good and faithful servant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5 [8] We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. Observation: So many times I ask God to bring me home because it\u2019s so hard to live here at times. I just want peace and to be with my Maker &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3223","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\/3223","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=3223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3225,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223\/revisions\/3225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}