{"id":8789,"date":"2026-02-02T14:38:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T14:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=8789"},"modified":"2026-02-02T14:38:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T14:38:46","slug":"love-overflowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/love-overflowing\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Overflowing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 3: [12] May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: I pray the Lord would make my love increase.  I never prayed that before.  Sometimes it feels as if I\u2019m forcing myself to love others and I feel bad at times when I can\u2019t.  If God would increase my love where others can see it and can receive that love, they would be able to see Christ in me.<\/p>\n<p>Application: Starting today I\u2019m going to add to my prayers that God would increase my love for His children.  Any time I have difficulty loving someone I\u2019ll stop and pray right  then for God to increase my love.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My Lord, I ask that you would increase my love for others and give me the heart of your son.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 3: [12] May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you. Observation: I pray the Lord would make my love increase. I never prayed that before. Sometimes it feels as if I\u2019m forcing myself to love others and I &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8790,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8789","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\/8789","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=8789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8791,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8789\/revisions\/8791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}