{"id":8603,"date":"2025-12-02T14:33:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T14:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=8603"},"modified":"2025-12-02T14:33:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T14:33:39","slug":"repaying-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2025\/12\/02\/repaying-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Repaying God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Romans 11:35 Who has ever given to God, that God should repay him?<\/p>\n<p>Observation: Sometimes when I do something for God or honor Him in some way that I\u2019m paying him back for what He has done for me.  I don\u2019t realize there is no paying back there is nothing I can do that could pay back even a little of all He has done.  It is all God\u2019s mercy, love and grace and I was bought by the blood of Jesus.  I am required to live a life totally for God, which I don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to realize that is nothing I can do to repay God, but if I do nothing at all I\u2019m dishonoring him.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My Lord make me useful not only because you deserve it, but that it is required of me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Romans 11:35 Who has ever given to God, that God should repay him? Observation: Sometimes when I do something for God or honor Him in some way that I\u2019m paying him back for what He has done for me. I don\u2019t realize there is no paying back there is nothing I can do that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8603","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\/8603","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=8603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8605,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8603\/revisions\/8605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}