{"id":3882,"date":"2021-11-27T16:09:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T16:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=3882"},"modified":"2021-11-27T16:09:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T16:09:36","slug":"obeying-the-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2021\/11\/27\/obeying-the-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"Obeying the Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Acts 8: [29] The Spirit told Philip, &#8220;Go to that chariot and stay near it.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Observation: I\u2019ve heard God direct me and have listened some of the time.  The other times I would make excuses that it wasn\u2019t the Spirit, I was busy or just ignored what I heard.  However the times that I listened I was blessed, because I was doing what God had asked me, so why don\u2019t I listen all of the time?  What is it about me that I want to either be rebellious or just do things my way.  <\/p>\n<p>Application: I belong to God.  He has created me, He is my Master and He knows what is best for me.  I need to listen more attentively to His voice and do what He commands me to do.  God doesn\u2019t request he commands.  There should never be a choice, if God speaks to me through the Holy Spirit, I do it, no questions asked.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My God, my Master command your servant and speak to me.  May I never disobey you again, may I complete the mission you have sent me on with joy and thanksgiving, that you would consider me worthy of doing anything in your great name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Acts 8: [29] The Spirit told Philip, &#8220;Go to that chariot and stay near it.&#8221; Observation: I\u2019ve heard God direct me and have listened some of the time. The other times I would make excuses that it wasn\u2019t the Spirit, I was busy or just ignored what I heard. However the times that I &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3883,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3882","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\/3882","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=3882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3884,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882\/revisions\/3884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}