{"id":8841,"date":"2026-02-19T14:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=8841"},"modified":"2026-02-19T14:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:30:15","slug":"his-own-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/his-own-people\/","title":{"rendered":"His Own People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Titus 2: [14] who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: That\u2019s me, one of the people Jesus gave himself for, but how eager am I to do good.  I want to do good, God has placed that in my spirit, but at what cost.  My laziness and focus of the things of this world slow down the deeds I should be doing to please God.<\/p>\n<p>Application: My main priority needs to be serving God.  The Bible makes that very clear.  The way I serve God is by doing good deeds to glorify Him.  I need to place that first on my list of things to do each day.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My Lord give me strength so I may honor you this day.  Create my agenda today, may my deeds glorify you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Titus 2: [14] who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good. Observation: That\u2019s me, one of the people Jesus gave himself for, but how eager am I to do good. I want to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8841","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\/8841","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=8841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8843,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8841\/revisions\/8843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}