{"id":3928,"date":"2021-12-11T16:07:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T16:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=3928"},"modified":"2021-12-11T16:07:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T16:07:20","slug":"what-shall-i-do-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2021\/12\/11\/what-shall-i-do-lord\/","title":{"rendered":"What Shall I Do Lord?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture:  Acts 22:10 &#8221; `What shall I do, Lord?&#8217; I asked.<br \/>\n    &#8221; `Get up,&#8217; the Lord said, `and go into Damascus. There you will be told all that you have been assigned to do.&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>Observation: I ask God each morning in prayer to guide me in what He desires of me, but most of the time I don\u2019t hear Him.  Is God not speaking to me or am I not listening.  Maybe I\u2019m only doing the things I desire and pretend not to hear Him when He gives me directions I don\u2019t want to hear.  I\u2019ve done that before with people I\u2019ll ask them what they want and if it doesn\u2019t fit into what I want I ignore them.<\/p>\n<p>Application: When I ask God for direction I need to be quiet and patient, then listen for His response.  I\u2019m only here because God desires me to be here and He has a purpose.  Yesterday I watch Junior Seau\u2019s memorial service and wondered why God allowed him to take his life, yet stopped me on several occasions.  God doesn\u2019t just randomly do things without reason and I must still be here to serve Him in some special way.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Lord what is it you desire of me.  Help me hear you and follow your directions, that I may complete the tasks you set before me.  May I complete this journey in glory and honor to you so when I do get to go home you will receive me with open arms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Acts 22:10 &#8221; `What shall I do, Lord?&#8217; I asked. &#8221; `Get up,&#8217; the Lord said, `and go into Damascus. There you will be told all that you have been assigned to do.&#8217; Observation: I ask God each morning in prayer to guide me in what He desires of me, but most of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3928","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\/3928","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=3928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3931,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928\/revisions\/3931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}