{"id":7873,"date":"2025-04-12T13:37:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T13:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=7873"},"modified":"2025-04-12T13:37:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T13:37:35","slug":"being-one-flesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2025\/04\/12\/being-one-flesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Being One Flesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture 1 Corinthians 7:4 The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. And likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. 1 <\/p>\n<p>Observation: God has called married couples to be one flesh, which is difficult in these days of selfish desires.  More people are divorced than remained married and some live separate lives even though they are married.  God calls us to be one and to care more about our spouse than we care about our own needs.  Our decisions as a married person are to consider the impact of our decision on our marriage and that we should make any major decision together.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I\u2019m so blessed to have Teri as my wife.  My desire is to please her and to live this life together.  I need to make sure I don\u2019t do anything out of selfish desires but look after her needs and the future of our relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer My Lord thank you for the great blessing of my wife.  Help me stay focused on her needs and each day to grow closer as husband and wife.  Watch over her today as we walk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture 1 Corinthians 7:4 The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. And likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. 1 Observation: God has called married couples to be one flesh, which is difficult in these days of selfish desires. More &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7873","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\/7873","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=7873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7875,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7873\/revisions\/7875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}