{"id":8208,"date":"2025-07-28T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T13:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=8208"},"modified":"2025-07-28T13:34:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T13:34:00","slug":"why-wont-they-repent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2025\/07\/28\/why-wont-they-repent\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Won\u2019t They Repent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture Revelation 9:20 But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk. <\/p>\n<p>Observation: Even after all the plagues some will still not repent.  This world is falling apart from the evil that is in it and they still don\u2019t accept God, but refuse to repent.  There are people that need to hear the word of God and will receive it, but there are others it doesn\u2019t matter what you say or what they see they will have a hard heart.  Jesus says not to throw your pearls to the swine so if people don\u2019t respond to your witness, move on to someone else.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to do the best I can witnessing to others, but ask for God\u2019s discernment as I speak.  If I see that they are not interested continue on and talk to others about the grace and love of God.  <\/p>\n<p>Prayer Dear Lord put those in my path that want and need to hear about your loving grace.  Use me as you desire to spread the good news of salvation and help them draw close to You.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture Revelation 9:20 But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk. Observation: Even after all the plagues some will &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8208","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\/8208","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=8208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8210,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8208\/revisions\/8210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}