{"id":8813,"date":"2026-02-10T14:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T14:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=8813"},"modified":"2026-02-10T14:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T14:39:10","slug":"managing-our-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/managing-our-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Managing Our Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: 1 Timothy 3: [5] (If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God&#8217;s church?)<\/p>\n<p>Observation: That indicates where a man should spend his time.  First with God in prayer and devotion.  Next with family above ministry.  I think people believe they are holier when they spend a lot of time at church instead at home.  It\u2019s probably because it\u2019s easier doing ministry than raising a family God\u2019s way.<\/p>\n<p>Application: Even though my children are grown and out on their own I need to keep that contact, especially with my son.  I need to make amends with him and ask for forgiveness for not being there when he needed me.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My God make me a better husband, father and grandfather so that I will glorify you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: 1 Timothy 3: [5] (If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God&#8217;s church?) Observation: That indicates where a man should spend his time. First with God in prayer and devotion. Next with family above ministry. I think people believe they are holier when they &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8813","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\/8813","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=8813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8815,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8813\/revisions\/8815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}