{"id":8757,"date":"2026-01-23T14:34:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T14:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=8757"},"modified":"2026-01-23T14:34:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T14:34:02","slug":"living-for-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2026\/01\/23\/living-for-christ\/","title":{"rendered":"Living for Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Philippians 1: [21] For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: Am I living for Christ?  I think about how much time I spend thinking of things I need to do, worrying, buying stuff and other things of this world.  Then I think about how much time I spend in doing Christ\u2019s work.  It\u2019s embarrassing the percentage.  Yet Christ paid the sacrifice for me that if I die it would be gain.  <\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to start living for Christ, the way he died for me.  My focus in everything I do should be living for Christ and others need to see that in me.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Lord help me live this life for you.  I know I can\u2019t do it for I\u2019m too weak, but my strength comes from you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Philippians 1: [21] For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. Observation: Am I living for Christ? I think about how much time I spend thinking of things I need to do, worrying, buying stuff and other things of this world. Then I think about how much time I spend &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8758,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8757","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\/8757","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=8757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8759,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8757\/revisions\/8759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}