{"id":4155,"date":"2022-02-15T16:28:26","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T16:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=4155"},"modified":"2022-02-15T16:28:26","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T16:28:26","slug":"im-an-immigrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2022\/02\/15\/im-an-immigrant\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m An Immigrant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Philippians 3: [20] But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,<\/p>\n<p>Observation: I get so caught up in this world I forget I\u2019m a foreigner just visiting for a while.  I worry about so many things and I want to change things to match my ideals, yet I\u2019ve been put here for a reason.  I get so involved here that I hardly think of my real home that I haven\u2019t seen yet, but know it better than this place.  I forget the most beautiful thing I can see on this earth will not compare to the beauty that awaits me.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to think of this has a business trip and my boss has given me an itinerary of things to get accomplished.   I feel homesick, but I can\u2019t go until I complete the job my Lord has given me.  So I need to keep in contact with the main office and get direction each day.  I was put here to be a salesman to tell others of a God that loves them so much that He wants to spend all eternity with them and describe their new home.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Lord I want to succeed in the tasks you put before me, but I need you to accomplish this.  I humble myself before you and ask for wisdom to tell others about You.  I love you and I ask you to show me how to show this love to others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Philippians 3: [20] But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, Observation: I get so caught up in this world I forget I\u2019m a foreigner just visiting for a while. I worry about so many things and I want to change things to match &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4155","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\/4155","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=4155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4157,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155\/revisions\/4157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}