{"id":8004,"date":"2025-05-24T13:42:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T13:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=8004"},"modified":"2025-05-24T13:42:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T13:42:56","slug":"keep-earnestly-in-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2025\/05\/24\/keep-earnestly-in-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep Earnestly in Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture Colossians 4:2 Continue earnestly in prayer, being vigilant in it with thanksgiving; <\/p>\n<p>Observation: The more I pray with others as I walk each morning the more important prayer becomes to me.  I can feel the Holy Spirit guiding me and putting people in my path.  I\u2019m learning how important prayer is to God, because it shows faith and trust in our Father.  I need to always make prayer a priority in my life and be thankful God has given me this opportunity to talk with Him each day.<\/p>\n<p>Application: As I pray, I grow closer to my heavenly Father and I\u2019m able to understand what He desires of me.  I should never take this for granted and always be thankful that I may come before Him at any time.  Be especially grateful as He shows me answered prayer and thank Him for His love.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer Dear Father thank you for allowing me to speak to You.  Continue to increase my knowledge of You and your desires for this life You have blessed me with.  I always look forward to our walks and I ask You to continue to speak to your servant.  I love you, Lord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture Colossians 4:2 Continue earnestly in prayer, being vigilant in it with thanksgiving; Observation: The more I pray with others as I walk each morning the more important prayer becomes to me. I can feel the Holy Spirit guiding me and putting people in my path. I\u2019m learning how important prayer is to God, because &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8004","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\/8004","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=8004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8006,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8004\/revisions\/8006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}