{"id":3760,"date":"2021-10-19T15:11:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T15:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=3760"},"modified":"2021-10-19T15:11:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T15:11:31","slug":"i-need-to-follow-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2021\/10\/19\/i-need-to-follow-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"I Need to Follow Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Luke 14: [27] And anyone who does not carry his cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: I\u2019m not carrying my cross the way I should.  I need to submit fully to my Lord, yet I don\u2019t put Him first in my life.  I get so caught up in this world and in myself at times I leave Jesus out and give Him only a fraction of what He deserves from me.  I\u2019m only here because God wants me here and this life I\u2019m using is His. Not mine.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to live this life as His.  It\u2019s not when I have time for my Lord, but that all the time I have is His already.  I need to submit fully to Christ\u2019s authority and live a life of righteousness that will be pleasing to my Savior.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Lord you have blessed me so much and I know I don\u2019t deserve any of it.  All I have is yours, including the precious time you allow me to have.  Show me how to use everything for your glory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Luke 14: [27] And anyone who does not carry his cross and follow me cannot be my disciple. Observation: I\u2019m not carrying my cross the way I should. I need to submit fully to my Lord, yet I don\u2019t put Him first in my life. I get so caught up in this world and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3760","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\/3760","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=3760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3762,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760\/revisions\/3762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}