{"id":7989,"date":"2025-05-19T13:41:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T13:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=7989"},"modified":"2025-05-19T13:41:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T13:41:42","slug":"im-a-citizen-of-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2025\/05\/19\/im-a-citizen-of-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m A Citizen of Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture Philippians 3:20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, <\/p>\n<p>Observation: I do feel like an illegal immigrant here most of the time.  I don\u2019t fit in and feel out of place and that is a good thing.  Now that I know I don\u2019t belong here there must be someplace else where I belong.  God has called me to be with Him for all eternity in Heaven and this life is simply a journey to get there.  I\u2019m called to do things on this journey and I want to go home accomplishing those things.<\/p>\n<p>Application: God has given me another day here in this foreign land and I\u2019m called to get some things done today.  I need to stay in prayer to find out my duties today and be obedient in doing them.  My time is getting closer to be with my Lord and I need to be diligent in getting my life in order to glorify Him.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer My Lord thank you for allowing me to be with You in Heaven when my journey is over.  I don\u2019t deserve my new home but will forever be grateful.  Can\u2019t wait to tell you in person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture Philippians 3:20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, Observation: I do feel like an illegal immigrant here most of the time. I don\u2019t fit in and feel out of place and that is a good thing. Now that I know I &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7989","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\/7989","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=7989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7991,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7989\/revisions\/7991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}