{"id":904,"date":"2015-11-26T10:32:30","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T10:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=904"},"modified":"2015-11-26T01:38:45","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T01:38:45","slug":"rejoicing-over-a-sinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2015\/11\/26\/rejoicing-over-a-sinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Rejoicing Over a Sinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Luke 15: [7] I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: When I repented and gave my life to Christ, God and the angels rejoiced.  How unbelievable that I matter, that God would even take notice, yet rejoice.  A man who lived a sinful life in disregard to God, yet God never gave up on me.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to give God more opportunities to rejoice.  It\u2019s time to make a much bigger difference in the kingdom by reaching out to those who do not know Him, helping show others the way.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My Lord make me useful to You.  Show me how to bring others to your saving grace.  Open my eyes, ears then mouth to speak to those who don\u2019t know you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Luke 15: [7] I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent. Observation: When I repented and gave my life to Christ, God and the angels rejoiced. How unbelievable that I matter, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-904","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\/904","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=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":906,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions\/906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}