{"id":8889,"date":"2026-03-08T13:23:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T13:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=8889"},"modified":"2026-03-08T13:23:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T13:23:58","slug":"the-fathers-discipline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/the-fathers-discipline\/","title":{"rendered":"The Father\u2019s Discipline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Hebrews 12: 7 Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?<\/p>\n<p>Observation: When I go through hardships I feel like I\u2019m being punished, not disciplined.  I wonder what I might have done wrong instead of asking my Father what He is teaching me.  When I look back, I can see the lesson He was showing me and how it made me stronger in bringing me closer to Him.<\/p>\n<p>Application: Next time I go through a hardship I need to get down on my knees and ask my Father what should I be learning from this, and thank Him for the opportunity to draw closer to Him.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My Father open my eyes and teach your child.  Discipline me in the way I should go and don\u2019t ever give up on me, please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Hebrews 12: 7 Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father? Observation: When I go through hardships I feel like I\u2019m being punished, not disciplined. I wonder what I might have done wrong instead of asking my Father what He is teaching me. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8889","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\/8889","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=8889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8891,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8889\/revisions\/8891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}