{"id":6458,"date":"2024-01-31T15:20:50","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T15:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=6458"},"modified":"2024-01-31T15:20:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T15:20:50","slug":"receiving-gods-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2024\/01\/31\/receiving-gods-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Receiving God\u2019s Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture  Proverbs 2:1 My son, if you receive my words, And treasure my commands within you, <\/p>\n<p>Observation: I read God\u2019s word every day, but most of the time I don\u2019t receive it.  I know what His word is telling me to do, but rarely do I do it.  Without receiving God\u2019s word, I can\u2019t treasure what He is commanding me to do.  God\u2019s words are commands and not helpful suggestions, He wants obedience from us and the only way we can obtain that obedience is by knowing what He desires of us.<\/p>\n<p>Application: Do more than just read my Bible each day, but meditate and understand what it is saying to me.  Allow God to speak to my heart and direct my paths.  Start treasuring my Lord\u2019s command, He cares for me and wants me to be successful in following Him and earning a place in Heaven with my obedience.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer:  My Lord open my mind to understanding and direct me in all that you call me to do.  My desire is to please you, please guide me this day to glorify you.  I love you Lord may I show it today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture Proverbs 2:1 My son, if you receive my words, And treasure my commands within you, Observation: I read God\u2019s word every day, but most of the time I don\u2019t receive it. I know what His word is telling me to do, but rarely do I do it. Without receiving God\u2019s word, I can\u2019t treasure &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6458","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\/6458","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=6458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6460,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6458\/revisions\/6460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}