{"id":9230,"date":"2026-06-22T13:25:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T13:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=9230"},"modified":"2026-06-22T13:25:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T13:25:56","slug":"children-of-god-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2026\/06\/22\/children-of-god-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Children of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: John 1: &#8211; [13] children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband&#8217;s will, but born of God.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: When I was born again it was a totally new life.  The sins I did before I couldn\u2019t do, the softening of my heart, and the love I felt for others.  It was almost instantaneous.  God directed me to become a new child yet He continues to allow me to make choices.  I wish He would just take over completely.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to live my life as the child of the all-powerful creator.  I have a new legacy to live up to and I should be introducing others to my Dad.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Father make me a chip off the old block.  May others see the family resemblance and want to be part of the family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: John 1: &#8211; [13] children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband&#8217;s will, but born of God. Observation: When I was born again it was a totally new life. The sins I did before I couldn\u2019t do, the softening of my heart, and the love I felt for others. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9230","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\/9230","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=9230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9232,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9230\/revisions\/9232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}