{"id":934,"date":"2021-04-27T16:48:48","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T16:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hisfavorite1.net\/hfvwpr54\/?p=934"},"modified":"2021-06-07T16:34:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T16:34:31","slug":"devotions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hisfavorite1.net\/hfvwpr54\/?p=934","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><span style=\"color:#4d0099\" class=\"has-inline-color\">S<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color:#4d0099\" class=\"has-inline-color\">P<\/span><strong><span style=\"color:#4d0099\" class=\"has-inline-color\">IRITUAL DEMENTIA<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><strong><em> \u201cPraise the Lord, my soul and forget not all his benefits.\u201d Psalm 103:2 (NIV)<\/em><\/strong><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"936\" height=\"529\" src=\"https:\/\/hisfavorite1.net\/hfvwpr54\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/dementia.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-755\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hisfavorite1.net\/hfvwpr54\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/dementia.jpg 936w, https:\/\/hisfavorite1.net\/hfvwpr54\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/dementia-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hisfavorite1.net\/hfvwpr54\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/dementia-768x434.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hisfavorite1.net\/hfvwpr54\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/dementia-780x441.jpg 780w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 936px) 100vw, 936px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Dementia is the general term for those who experience memory loss and other abilities interfering with their routine and daily life.&nbsp; Dementia patients can wander.&nbsp; They may be walking to the post office but they get turned around, lost and unable to find their way back home.&nbsp; Dementia patients can be easily agitated, repetitive, suspicious, even forgetting about personal hygiene, eating and drinking.&nbsp; Dementia patients often forget the names and faces of their family and friends leaving their loved ones to cope with complex grief, loss, loneliness and heartbreak.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we forget who our God is we encounter much of what dementia sufferers experience.&nbsp; We wander.&nbsp; We get lost, turned around and easily agitated.&nbsp; Others try to help us find our way back, praying for us but we are slipping away.&nbsp; When we forget His face that looks at us with amazing love, we are broken.&nbsp; Forgetting His Name, His Word, His promises,His character, His faithfulness, His many blessings to us causes doubt, struggle, worry, anxiety, unrest. Our growth is interrupted, stunted and it affects others.&nbsp; We must not forget.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>David in the Psalms often starts out praying about his circumstances, then he begins to remember who God is and His past provision and faithfulness.&nbsp; The same psalm will often end in David rejoicing, trusting, his strength and countenance renewed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Will you remember today the face, the name, the truth, His many blessings and faithfulness? Will you remember that He is on your side, He is for you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\"><em><strong>PRAYER: Father God, help me in every circumstance to remember who You are and never forget all Your blessings and faithfulness in Jesus.&nbsp; Amen.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we forget who our God is we encounter much of what dementia sufferers experience.  We wander.  We get lost, turned around and easily agitated. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[31,32,30],"class_list":["post-934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion","tag-forget","tag-psalm-103","tag-spiritual-dementia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hisfavorite1.net\/hfvwpr54\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hisfavorite1.net\/hfvwpr54\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hisfavorite1.net\/hfvwpr54\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hisfavorite1.net\/hfvwpr54\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hisfavorite1.net\/hfvwpr54\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/hisfavorite1.net\/hfvwpr54\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1345,"href":"https:\/\/hisfavorite1.net\/hfvwpr54\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions\/1345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hisfavorite1.net\/hfvwpr54\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hisfavorite1.net\/hfvwpr54\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hisfavorite1.net\/hfvwpr54\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}