{"id":8379,"date":"2025-09-21T13:39:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T13:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=8379"},"modified":"2025-09-21T13:39:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T13:39:42","slug":"obey-the-word-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2025\/09\/21\/obey-the-word-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Obey the Word of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Luke 11:28 He replied, \u201c Blessed rather are those who hear the Word of God and obey it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Observation: Hearing is not enough.  I can read the Bible every day for the rest of my life and it won\u2019t draw me closer to God until I obey what it says.  If I disobey God\u2019s commands and not forgive others, don\u2019t give to those in need, love others it will draw me away from God.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to continue each day understanding and reading the Word but more important obeying each day what it says.  I know in my heart what to do I need however to do it.  When I am disobedient, which I most likely will be, I need to call on God and ask for his forgiveness and guidance.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My Lord guide me and give me strength to obey each command in your Word.  May I glorify You today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Luke 11:28 He replied, \u201c Blessed rather are those who hear the Word of God and obey it.\u201d Observation: Hearing is not enough. I can read the Bible every day for the rest of my life and it won\u2019t draw me closer to God until I obey what it says. If I disobey God\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8380,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8379","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\/8379","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=8379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8381,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8379\/revisions\/8381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}