{"id":7917,"date":"2025-04-26T13:48:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T13:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=7917"},"modified":"2025-04-26T13:48:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T13:48:22","slug":"im-a-new-creation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2025\/04\/26\/im-a-new-creation-2\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m A New Creation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. <\/p>\n<p>Observation: Before Jesus entered my life, I was a terrible person, only thinking of my own needs and not others, not even my family.  My Life has changed so drastically since I gave my heart to my Lord.  He took that heart of stone and replaced it with a heart of flesh.  My focus is now to fulfill the purpose God has given me out of love for Him.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I live a day at a time and always with the Holy Spirit.  I want to be the man that will please and honor my Lord.  I love being around people and I need to share my faith with others.  God has given me the gift of praying with others and I need to use that gift each day.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer My Lord thank you for making me a new creation and not leaving me to be the wretched man I was.  Use me as you desire and be with me each day as I journey through this place.  Continue to change me to be more like your Son.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. Observation: Before Jesus entered my life, I was a terrible person, only thinking of my own needs and not others, not even my family. My Life has changed so &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7917","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\/7917","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=7917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7919,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7917\/revisions\/7919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}