{"id":8733,"date":"2026-01-15T14:23:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T14:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=8733"},"modified":"2026-01-15T14:23:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T14:23:44","slug":"living-by-the-spirit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2026\/01\/15\/living-by-the-spirit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Living by the Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Galatians 5: 16 So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: Why do I have such a hard time living in the Spirit?  God gives me a choice each day to live for Him or for me.  It seems most of the time I still live for me.  My focus is the things I want not the things God wants for me.  I try each day to be obedient to God but has soon as I go out into the world, I seem to just blend in.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to realize I wasn\u2019t designed to be here for me but that I\u2019m set apart for God\u2019s purpose.  I need to allow the Holy Spirit to take charge and have His way with me.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Lord take charge of this servant of yours.  Fill me with the Holy Spirit and guide me each day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Galatians 5: 16 So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. Observation: Why do I have such a hard time living in the Spirit? God gives me a choice each day to live for Him or for me. It seems most of the time &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8733","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\/8733","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=8733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8735,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8733\/revisions\/8735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}