{"id":9597,"date":"2026-10-11T13:19:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T13:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=9597"},"modified":"2026-10-11T13:19:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T13:19:16","slug":"setting-my-mind-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/11\/setting-my-mind-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting My Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Colossians 3: [2] Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: My mind always seems to be set on earthly things.  Even when I pray or read my mind wanders to the things of this world.  I want what God wants for me and I want to finish this race well, but I always drift back to the things of this world.  <\/p>\n<p>Application: The Word says to set my mind on the things above.  I need to make a deliberate attempt each day to set my mind on what God desires of me and work all the time to stay focused on these things.  I know my mind will wander but when it does to stop and think of my eternal home.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Lord strengthen my mind and my thoughts so that I may be focused on You throughout the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Colossians 3: [2] Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. Observation: My mind always seems to be set on earthly things. Even when I pray or read my mind wanders to the things of this world. I want what God wants for me and I want to finish this race well, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9597","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\/9597","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=9597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9599,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9597\/revisions\/9599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}