{"id":8348,"date":"2025-09-11T13:38:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T13:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=8348"},"modified":"2025-09-11T13:38:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T13:38:23","slug":"the-lords-servant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2025\/09\/11\/the-lords-servant\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lord\u2019s Servant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Luke 1:38 \u201cI am the Lord\u2019s servant, \u201c Mary answered, \u201cMay it be to me as you have said.\u201d Then the angel left her.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: These should be my words.  I am the Lord\u2019s servant.  He deserves my complete obedience and loyalty.  Yet most of the time I serve myself, focusing on what is going on in my life instead of using this life to have others focus on God.  I need to be doing the things He asks of me and start becoming the man He wants me to be.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to remind myself each day by saying I\u2019m the Lord\u2019s servant.  Lord what do You desire of me today.  Then I need to start acting like it.  Serving him whenever possible.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My Lord and my master what can your servant do for you today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Luke 1:38 \u201cI am the Lord\u2019s servant, \u201c Mary answered, \u201cMay it be to me as you have said.\u201d Then the angel left her. Observation: These should be my words. I am the Lord\u2019s servant. He deserves my complete obedience and loyalty. Yet most of the time I serve myself, focusing on what is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8348","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\/8348","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=8348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8350,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8348\/revisions\/8350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}