Scripture 1 Sam 27:1 And David said in his heart, “Now I shall perish someday by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape to the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me anymore in any part of Israel. So I shall escape out of his hand.” <\/p>\n
Observation: I use to talk a lot to my heart when I was depressed. All my thoughts were negative and I would play them over and over again, until my heart started to break. Even now I speak to myself much more than I speak to God which is wrong. Most of the time my heart or mind doesn\u2019t know what to do and I get myself so preoccupied with these thoughts I\u2019m not moving forward to where God desires me. I talk too much to my heart and don\u2019t stop to listen to what God is telling me. I don\u2019t know if this plan of David\u2019s was approved by God, but I would think David would have been better talking to his Heavenly father than a heart that wasn\u2019t pure.<\/p>\n
Application: If I would just stop all of these thoughts that I have that do me no good and directed my energy to God I would be a much better man. I know I need to plan, but if those plans don\u2019t include God, what good are they. God loves and cares for me and this is something I need to trust, because if I trust this then I can trust that God wants to be a part of my life. I need to spend less time trying to reason with myself and more time with my Father.<\/p>\n
Prayer: Dear Lord a day doesn\u2019t go by without me thinking and rethinking things and almost always they become negative thoughts. I need to hear from you and I need the strength to stand and seek your face in my life. The enemy has a hold on me so often and I need you to release that hold and hold me close to hear what you want of me. Help me please lead a better life, a life that will glorify you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Scripture 1 Sam 27:1 And David said in his heart, “Now I shall perish someday by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape to the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me anymore in any part of Israel. So I …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5269,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5268","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\/5268","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=5268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5270,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5268\/revisions\/5270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}