{"id":8739,"date":"2026-01-17T14:24:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T14:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=8739"},"modified":"2026-01-17T14:24:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T14:24:41","slug":"predestined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2026\/01\/17\/predestined\/","title":{"rendered":"Predestined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Ephesians 1: [5] he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Observation: I look back on my life and see how God continued to save me from myself.  I see what He went through for me to find Jesus and be saved.  I know I was predestined and there is something about me that God wants to use for His glory and pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to live my life with an open heart and mind, to search each day for God\u2019s will and pleasure.  My goal each day is to please my heavenly Father.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My God may I bless you this day that you can look down on me and be pleased you chose me as your child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Ephesians 1: [5] he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will&#8211; Observation: I look back on my life and see how God continued to save me from myself. I see what He went through for me to find Jesus and be saved. I &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8739","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\/8739","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=8739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8741,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8739\/revisions\/8741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}