{"id":7436,"date":"2024-11-23T14:54:23","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T14:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=7436"},"modified":"2024-11-23T14:54:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T14:54:23","slug":"return-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2024\/11\/23\/return-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Return to Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture Malachi 3:7 Yet from the days of your fathers<br \/>\nYou have gone away from My ordinances<br \/>\nAnd have not kept them.<br \/>\nReturn to Me, and I will return to you,\u201d<br \/>\nSays the LORD of hosts.<br \/>\n\u201cBut you said,<br \/>\n\u2018In what way shall we return?\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>Observation: We have strayed from God.  Most of us are so involved with the world around us that we don\u2019t trust God\u2019s judgement.  We are so focused on the evil we lose sight of our heavenly Father.  We need to return to God in prayer and loving Him the way He calls us to love Him with all out heart, mind and soul and then He will return to us.<\/p>\n<p>Application: When I\u2019m walking I need to focus on God more than the things that surround me that is not of God.  Keep in prayer reaching out to His children and be there when He calls. My walk should draw me closer to God and as I walk to closer to Him He is walking closer to me.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer My Lord, You have blessed me so much and yet there are times my mind wanders to things that don\u2019t concern me.  Help me stay focused on the things of You and help me fulfill the purpose You have created me for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture Malachi 3:7 Yet from the days of your fathers You have gone away from My ordinances And have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,\u201d Says the LORD of hosts. \u201cBut you said, \u2018In what way shall we return?\u2019 Observation: We have strayed from God. Most of us are &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7436","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\/7436","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=7436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7438,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7436\/revisions\/7438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}