{"id":9162,"date":"2026-05-31T13:24:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T13:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=9162"},"modified":"2026-05-31T13:24:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T13:24:20","slug":"i-want-to-please-god-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/i-want-to-please-god-4\/","title":{"rendered":"I Want to Please God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Luke 3: [22] and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: &#8220;You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Observation: I know God loves me, but I doubt that He is pleased with me.  The decisions I make each day for the most part are selfish.  Based on what I want and laziness to avoid doing what God wants.  It\u2019s so easy to do nothing instead of stepping out and pleasing God.<\/p>\n<p>Application: My life should reflect the love God has for me.  I shouldn\u2019t be able to sit still, but be eager to please God.  The little He has me do, I should be excited about the opportunity to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My God I am your child and servant command me what to do, how to live this life in a way that you would be well pleased.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Luke 3: [22] and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: &#8220;You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.&#8221; Observation: I know God loves me, but I doubt that He is pleased with me. The decisions I make &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9162","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\/9162","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=9162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9164,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9162\/revisions\/9164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}