{"id":7851,"date":"2025-04-05T13:47:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T13:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=7851"},"modified":"2025-04-05T13:47:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T13:47:47","slug":"deceiving-the-hearts-of-the-simple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2025\/04\/05\/deceiving-the-hearts-of-the-simple\/","title":{"rendered":"Deceiving the Hearts of the Simple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture Romans 16:18 For those who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by smooth words and flattering speech deceive the hearts of the simple. <\/p>\n<p>Observation: This verse is for today as we are all being deceived.  There is no concern for God and His children.  Politicians, leaders, and profiteers use the media today to deceive us and we are bombarded with lies every day.  The rich continue to get richer on these lies and instead of turning to God we are willing to be deceived.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I no longer listen to the news and do not debate others\u2019 opinions on what they think is going on.  My only concern is to serve my Lord the best that I can and to help others focus on God to give them peace.  Start each day in prayer and listen to God to direct me for that day, <\/p>\n<p>Prayer My Lord as I heard yesterday may I bring the loaves and fishes to You and let you do the miracles.  Help me be faithful in what you call me to do and that it will glorify You.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture Romans 16:18 For those who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by smooth words and flattering speech deceive the hearts of the simple. Observation: This verse is for today as we are all being deceived. There is no concern for God and His children. Politicians, leaders, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7851","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\/7851","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=7851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7853,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7851\/revisions\/7853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}