{"id":8933,"date":"2026-03-22T13:35:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T13:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=8933"},"modified":"2026-03-22T13:35:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T13:35:44","slug":"god-is-patient-with-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/22\/god-is-patient-with-me\/","title":{"rendered":"God is Patient with Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: 2 Peter 3: [9] The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: I am blessed that God is patient with me.  He should have given up long ago when I gave up on myself.  My purpose is to help bring others to his name so they won\u2019t perish.  There are times I think how wonderful it would be if Jeus would come and get me out of here, but He put me here for a purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to have patience in dealing with others, realizing God does not want anyone to perish.  I need to get busy with my job to make sure the people God puts under my influence will be able to see Jesus in me and not perish.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My Lord you have shown your mercy and grace to this servant and have saved me from what I truly deserved.  Help me fulfill the purpose you have created me for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: 2 Peter 3: [9] The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. Observation: I am blessed that God is patient with me. He should have given up long ago when I gave up &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8933","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\/8933","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=8933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8935,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8933\/revisions\/8935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}