{"id":9590,"date":"2026-10-09T13:24:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T13:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=9590"},"modified":"2026-10-09T13:24:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T13:24:27","slug":"pleasing-the-lord-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/09\/pleasing-the-lord-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Pleasing the Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Colossians 1: [10] And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,<\/p>\n<p>Observation: I want to live the life worthy of the Lord.  I want to have Him look at me and be proud, that I can bring a smile to His face and He would be pleased He created me.  To complete the good works God has ordained for me in glory and honor to Him.  I know the gifts and talents He has given me and I need to use them more and draw nearer to Him and be silent so that I can hear His voice.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to wake up each morning with an attitude to please God.  That includes my thoughts which I have such a hard time to control.  Before I take an action, I need to pray it through and take every opportunity to do a good work in my Lord\u2019s name.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Lord it will take your power to make me the man you deserve.  Guide me this day to do good works in your name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Colossians 1: [10] And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, Observation: I want to live the life worthy of the Lord. I want to have Him &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9590","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\/9590","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=9590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9592,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9590\/revisions\/9592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}