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# Get Single Devotional

> Fetch a full devotional payload by ID, including reading, confession, and study notes.

Returns one devotional entry by ID for the authenticated member's church.

## Request inputs

<ParamField header="X-API-Key" type="string" required>
  Your client API key from the dashboard (Settings page).
</ParamField>

<ParamField path="id" type="number" required>
  Unique identifier of the devotional to retrieve.
</ParamField>

## Response fields

<ResponseField name="status" type="string" required>
  Indicates whether the devotional lookup succeeded.
</ResponseField>

<ResponseField name="devotional" type="object" required>
  The full devotional entry returned for the requested ID.
</ResponseField>

<ResponseField name="devotional.bible_reading" type="string">
  Rich-text Bible reading content shown before the main devotional body.
</ResponseField>

<ResponseField name="devotional.confession" type="string">
  The confession or declaration content paired with the devotional.
</ResponseField>

<ResponseField name="devotional.is_recurring" type="number">
  A recurrence flag from the devotional record, where truthy values indicate the devotional can recur.
</ResponseField>

## Example response

```json theme={null}
{
  "status": "Success",
  "devotional": {
    "id": 1,
    "client_id": 12,
    "date": "2025-04-25",
    "author": "Chris Oyakhilome",
    "title": "We’re Not Mere Humans",
    "bible_reading": "<p><strong><em>These things have I written...</em></strong></p>",
    "content": "<p>This simply lets us know that as Christians...</p>",
    "confession": "<p><strong>CONFESSION</strong></p>",
    "studies": "<p><strong>FURTHER STUDY:</strong></p>",
    "thumbnail": "https://cdn.example.com/devotionals/devotional-1.jpg",
    "tags": "[]",
    "is_recurring": 0,
    "recurrence_end_date": null,
    "version": 1,
    "original_id": null,
    "created_at": "2025-04-25T13:23:38.000000Z",
    "updated_at": "2025-06-30T09:46:20.000000Z"
  }
}
```