{"id":8764,"date":"2026-01-25T14:34:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T14:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=8764"},"modified":"2026-01-25T14:34:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T14:34:57","slug":"a-citizen-of-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2026\/01\/25\/a-citizen-of-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"A Citizen of Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Philippians 3: [20] But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,<\/p>\n<p>Observation: I live my life most of the time as a citizen of this world.  I forget I\u2019m just visiting.  Everything I have is borrowed from God and when my time comes it will be given away.  Jesus is my passport back home and I should be longing for heaven and doing everything I can to be welcomed home to my Father.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I should live my life while focusing on my true home.  Thinking of things that will honor God.  Fulfilling my purpose here on this earth and desiring to hear my Father say, \u201cwell done good and faithful servant, welcome home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My Lord I know that you are preparing a place for me.  May I complete the work you have for me so I may come home and be with you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Philippians 3: [20] But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, Observation: I live my life most of the time as a citizen of this world. I forget I\u2019m just visiting. Everything I have is borrowed from God and when my time comes it &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8764","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\/8764","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=8764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8766,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8764\/revisions\/8766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}