{"id":8391,"date":"2025-09-25T13:36:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T13:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=8391"},"modified":"2025-09-25T13:36:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T13:36:49","slug":"rejoicing-over-repentance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2025\/09\/25\/rejoicing-over-repentance\/","title":{"rendered":"Rejoicing over Repentance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Luke 15:7 I tell you in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: I continue to ask for God\u2019s will and to show me how to please him.  Here it is in his word to help bring sinners to the light of Christ.  Yet I spend very little of my time reaching out to others and searching for the lost.<\/p>\n<p>Application: Make a true effort to seek out the people who are lost and tell them about what God as done for me.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My Lord I cry out to do your will.  Guide me today to someone who needs to know about you.  Give me the words to say and the strength to say them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Luke 15:7 I tell you in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent. Observation: I continue to ask for God\u2019s will and to show me how to please him. Here it is in his word &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8391","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\/8391","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=8391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8393,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8391\/revisions\/8393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}