{"id":3486,"date":"2021-07-23T14:36:15","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T14:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=3486"},"modified":"2021-07-23T14:36:15","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T14:36:15","slug":"obeying-should-be-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2021\/07\/23\/obeying-should-be-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"Obeying Should be Easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: 1 John 5: [3] This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome,<\/p>\n<p>Observation: I know to love God is to obey Him, but I didn\u2019t think that it wasn\u2019t going to be a burden.  Everything He asks of me is for my own good and the good of others.  and when I\u2019m obedient I feel the Holy Spirit and joy.  God has never asked anything that difficult of me and all I need to do is humble myself and put God desires above my own.<\/p>\n<p>Application: God asks so little of me and I need to take this time He has given me to be used for His glory.  I need to stay in the word and prayer to know God\u2019s will and do it with a cheerful spirit, a spirit others may see and desire for their own.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Lord I owe you everything, yet you ask so little of me.  May I always serve you with a cheerful spirit, in a way that pleases you.  Please Lord use me until it\u2019s time to come home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: 1 John 5: [3] This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, Observation: I know to love God is to obey Him, but I didn\u2019t think that it wasn\u2019t going to be a burden. Everything He asks of me is for my own good and the good &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3486","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\/3486","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=3486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3488,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3486\/revisions\/3488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}