{"id":6649,"date":"2024-03-21T14:04:21","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T14:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=6649"},"modified":"2024-03-21T14:04:21","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T14:04:21","slug":"todays-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2024\/03\/21\/todays-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Today\u2019s Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture Isaiah 1:23 Your princes are rebellious, And companions of thieves; Everyone loves bribes, And follows after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, Nor does the cause of the widow come before them. <\/p>\n<p>Observation: This really describes today\u2019s government.  Everyone is out for themselves and they don\u2019t care about anyone.  Abortion is becoming more murderous and they define when you can kill a baby and now they want it to be after birth.  The corruption in the government is on the news every day and how are leaders are stealing millions of dollars.  It is becoming more and more like Sodom and Gomorrah. <\/p>\n<p>Application: I can\u2019t fall into the trap of wasting my time trying to change what I can\u2019t change, but be a light to people that the Lord surrounds me with each day.  To do what I know what is right and follow God\u2019s guidance and not the governments.  <\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Lord I pray for this country.  We need you more than ever to lead us out of this sin and corruption.  Help me be a part of the solution no matter how small and to be a light in this dark place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture Isaiah 1:23 Your princes are rebellious, And companions of thieves; Everyone loves bribes, And follows after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, Nor does the cause of the widow come before them. Observation: This really describes today\u2019s government. Everyone is out for themselves and they don\u2019t care about anyone. Abortion is becoming more &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6649","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\/6649","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=6649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6651,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6649\/revisions\/6651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}