{"id":8991,"date":"2026-04-09T13:32:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=8991"},"modified":"2026-04-09T13:32:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:32:30","slug":"the-devil-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/the-devil-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"The Devil Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Revelations 12: [9] The great dragon was hurled down&#8211;that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: The devil has been defeated and no longer has power over my life.  He may tempt me, but he cannot harm me for I belong to Christ.  I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me and that includes avoiding Satan\u2019s temptations.<\/p>\n<p>Application: Every time I worry I give Satan a stronghold in my life.  I need to be focused on Christ, knowing He is the victor, my Lord and my Savior.  When troubles come, I should pray and draw nearer to God and He will lead me to victory.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My Lord place in my heart your desires.  Strengthen me in this battle of life and show me how to have victory of the accuser of this world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Revelations 12: [9] The great dragon was hurled down&#8211;that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him. Observation: The devil has been defeated and no longer has power over my life. He may tempt me, but he cannot &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8992,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8991","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\/8991","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=8991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8993,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8991\/revisions\/8993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}