{"id":8357,"date":"2025-09-14T13:32:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T13:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=8357"},"modified":"2025-09-14T13:32:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T13:32:38","slug":"serve-god-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2025\/09\/14\/serve-god-only\/","title":{"rendered":"Serve God Only"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Luke 4:8 Jesus answered, \u201cIt is written; worship the Lord your God and serve him only.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Observation: When Satan tempted Jesus these are the words he used.  I found in my life when Satan tempts me and my mind strays and begins to listen to him.  I stop and say what Jesus said, \u201cSatan away from me has it is written worship the Lord your God and serve him only.\u201d  By being taken in by Satan we are serving him and putting our desires before God\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Application: Whenever I stray from what I know God wants of me I need to stop and worship my Lord and remind myself who I serve.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My Lord I belong to you and will worship you only and serve you each day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Luke 4:8 Jesus answered, \u201cIt is written; worship the Lord your God and serve him only.\u201d Observation: When Satan tempted Jesus these are the words he used. I found in my life when Satan tempts me and my mind strays and begins to listen to him. I stop and say what Jesus said, \u201cSatan &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8358,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8357","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\/8357","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=8357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8359,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8357\/revisions\/8359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}