{"id":7801,"date":"2025-03-20T13:50:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T13:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=7801"},"modified":"2025-03-20T13:50:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T13:50:57","slug":"hearts-have-grown-dull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2025\/03\/20\/hearts-have-grown-dull\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearts Have Grown Dull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture Acts 28:27 For the hearts of this people have grown dull.<br \/>\nTheir ears are hard of hearing,<br \/>\nAnd their eyes they have closed,<br \/>\nLest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears,<br \/>\nLest they should understand with their hearts and turn,<br \/>\nSo that I should heal them. <\/p>\n<p>Observation: The hearts of this world have grown dull and our focus is on all the evil that is being done.  People aren\u2019t searching for God therefore He will never be found by them.  Unless people open their eyes, ears and hearts to the message of Jesus they won\u2019t be saved.  As Christians we may have to work harder to get the gospel message out to those who don\u2019t believe and we need to start with our own actions and words we speak.<\/p>\n<p>Application: We are each responsible for ourselves and nothing else.  It is up to each one of us to fulfill the purpose God has created in us using what He has blessed us with.  Look for the open doors that He puts before us and be ready to reach someone in the name of Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer My Lord, you have given me this amazing opportunity to talk to others fill me with the Holy Spirit and have me share the message of love you have given me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture Acts 28:27 For the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, And their eyes they have closed, Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, So that I should heal them. Observation: The hearts of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7802,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7801","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\/7801","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=7801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7803,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7801\/revisions\/7803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}