{"id":806,"date":"2015-10-27T10:28:43","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T10:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=806"},"modified":"2015-10-26T23:43:59","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T23:43:59","slug":"saving-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2015\/10\/27\/saving-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving My Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Mark 8: [35] For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: I continue to want to do things my way focusing on the things of this world.  I pray God\u2019s direction but I don\u2019t hear Him because I\u2019m so busy thinking of other things.  I tell God I want to do His will yet I continue doing mine.  I have but one purpose in this life and it can only be fulfilled through Christ.  My pastor told me yesterday I have the gift of evangelism yet I don\u2019t use it.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to start doing more things for Christ and let Him speak to me as I\u2019m doing them.  I don\u2019t hear Him on the couch watching TV or busy doing things in this world, only when I\u2019m serving or when I&#8217;m quite meditating on His word.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My Lord I offer you this life as a living sacrifice.  Use it as you will, may you fulfill your purpose for me and may I complete this race in glory and honor to You.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Mark 8: [35] For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it. Observation: I continue to want to do things my way focusing on the things of this world. I pray God\u2019s direction but I don\u2019t hear Him because &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-806","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\/806","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=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":808,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions\/808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}