{"id":4432,"date":"2022-05-14T14:46:03","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T14:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=4432"},"modified":"2022-05-14T14:46:03","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T14:46:03","slug":"mastering-my-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2022\/05\/14\/mastering-my-sin\/","title":{"rendered":"Mastering My Sin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Genesis 4: [7] If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Observation: Most of my life sin mastered me and now I need to turn the tables.  I have come a long way but I can\u2019t say that I mastered my sinful desires, but do realize more quickly if I\u2019m giving in.  It is a battle each day, but a fight I can\u2019t give up on our I won\u2019t finish the race for my Lord.  <\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to allow my Lord, to help me master sin in my life.  This is not a battle I\u2019m going to win on my own, the enemy is too tough for me.  I need to be in prayer throughout the day and stay in contact with my Lord for guidance.  I\u2019m here only because my God desires it and I need to stay focused and obedient to what He calls me to do.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My Lord you know me better than I know myself.  You know that I\u2019m a sinner and I fall short of your glory each day, but I want to please you and do your will, bearing fruit before I come home.  I need you to show me how to master this sinful man that I may break free of the bonds it places on me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Genesis 4: [7] If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it.&#8221; Observation: Most of my life sin mastered me and now I need to turn the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4433,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4432","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\/4432","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=4432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4434,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4432\/revisions\/4434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}