{"id":3364,"date":"2021-06-15T15:29:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T15:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=3364"},"modified":"2021-06-15T15:29:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T15:29:02","slug":"gods-purpose-and-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2021\/06\/15\/gods-purpose-and-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"God\u2019s Purpose and Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: 2 Timothy 1 [9] who has saved us and called us to a holy life&#8211;not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time,<\/p>\n<p>Observation: I which I could ignore what I want and let go and let God have His way with me.  All the things He has saved me from, I should have been burning in Hell so many years ago if my plan succeeded.  God\u2019s grace is beyond my understanding and I can\u2019t see me being worth His grace, but for some reason God wants to use me.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to seek God\u2019s face and die to myself and live the life He has chosen for me.  I need to get out of the way and submit to my Father\u2019s will so He can accomplish the purpose He has created me for.  <\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Lord I thank you for your grace and love for me.  I don\u2019t understand how you can love me so much and probably never will.  Get these distractions out of my life that I may see clearly what you desire of me so that I may live a holy life in honor to You.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: 2 Timothy 1 [9] who has saved us and called us to a holy life&#8211;not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time, Observation: I which I could ignore what I want and let go &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3364","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\/3364","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=3364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3366,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions\/3366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}