{"id":9165,"date":"2026-06-01T13:20:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=9165"},"modified":"2026-06-01T13:20:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:20:50","slug":"worship-the-lord-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/worship-the-lord-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Worship the Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Luke 4: 8 Jesus answered, &#8220;It is written: `Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.&#8217; &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Observation: I\u2019ve been using this verse for years whenever I\u2019m tempted or my mind goes astray.  Whenever I sin, I\u2019m out of God\u2019s grace and in practicality worshiping Satan.  Only when I\u2019m not sinning am I worshipping God and when I do His will I\u2019m serving Him.<\/p>\n<p>Application: To be aware of what I\u2019m doing at all times.  As soon as I feel myself moving away from God, I need to worship him with a prayer, a thank you or simply tell Him how much I love Him.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Lord may I serve only you and may I please you with my thoughts, action and speech, may they glorify you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Luke 4: 8 Jesus answered, &#8220;It is written: `Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.&#8217; &#8221; Observation: I\u2019ve been using this verse for years whenever I\u2019m tempted or my mind goes astray. Whenever I sin, I\u2019m out of God\u2019s grace and in practicality worshiping Satan. Only when I\u2019m not sinning am I &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9165","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\/9165","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=9165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9167,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9165\/revisions\/9167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}