{"id":8820,"date":"2026-02-12T14:28:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T14:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=8820"},"modified":"2026-02-12T14:28:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T14:28:45","slug":"providing-for-our-relatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/providing-for-our-relatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Providing for Our Relatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: 1 Timothy 5: [8] If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: We have a responsibility to look after our relatives and to help with their needs.  When I was given my divorce papers God put it on my heart to give my ex-wife everything we had, which I did.  This scripture was what God gave me at that time.  I feel the blessing I received was out of obedience of taking care of her as God directed.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to be more aware of my family\u2019s needs.  To help out wherever I can and to be there for them.  Whether financial or support God commands me in this.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My Lord may I not be selfish, but generous with my possessions and time to give to my family without hesitation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: 1 Timothy 5: [8] If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. Observation: We have a responsibility to look after our relatives and to help with their needs. When I was given my divorce papers God put &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8820","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\/8820","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=8820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8822,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8820\/revisions\/8822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}