{"id":3639,"date":"2021-09-13T15:05:32","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T15:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=3639"},"modified":"2021-09-13T15:05:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T15:05:32","slug":"truly-loving-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2021\/09\/13\/truly-loving-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Truly Loving God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture:  Matthew 22:37 Jesus replied: &#8221; `Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.&#8217;  <\/p>\n<p>Observation: I love God, but not in the way I should.  I should love God above everything and at all times.  During the course of the day I hardly think of my Lord instead of Him being the utmost in my thoughts, word and deeds.  To love God in the way I should I would be thinking, if I do this, does it honor my God?<\/p>\n<p>Application: God needs to be first place in my life at all times.  In everything I do I need to think how I can do it in a way that would be pleasing to Him.  When I wake up in the morning and talk to my Lord I should treat Him as the most important person in my life, which He is and deserves to be.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Father I do love you and I want to draw closer to you.  I want you in my thoughts constantly and I want to know what would please you each day.  You are the most important thing in my life, help me stay focused on you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Matthew 22:37 Jesus replied: &#8221; `Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.&#8217; Observation: I love God, but not in the way I should. I should love God above everything and at all times. During the course of the day I hardly think &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3639","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\/3639","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=3639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3641,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639\/revisions\/3641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}