{"id":4660,"date":"2019-09-30T03:46:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/a-person-after-gods-own-heart\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T03:46:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:46:43","slug":"a-person-after-gods-own-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/a-person-after-gods-own-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"A Person After God&#8217;s Own Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon in Life of David series.      David chosen.        1 Sam 13:13-14<\/p>\n<p>                         ==============================<br \/>\n                         A PERSON AFTER GOD&#8217;S OWN HEART<br \/>\n                         ==============================<\/p>\n<p>     I. A principle worth remembering.<br \/>\n         A. God chooses the weak.                             1 Cor 1:26-29<br \/>\n         B. God&#8217;s choice of a person is contrary to human reason. 1 Sam 16:7<\/p>\n<p>    II. The people&#8217;s choice &#8211; King Saul.                      Acts 13:16-23<br \/>\n         A. Turbulent times.<br \/>\n         B. Their demand for a king.                          1 Sam 8:4-5<br \/>\n         C. Do you know what you&#8217;re getting into?             1 Sam 8:10-18<br \/>\n         D. Saul chosen.<\/p>\n<p>   III. God&#8217;s choice &#8211; King David.<br \/>\n         A. God wanted someone after his own heart.<br \/>\n         B. The qualities God sought:<br \/>\n             1) Spirituality.                           1 Sam 13:14<br \/>\n             2) Humility.                               Pss 78:70; 89:19-21<br \/>\n             3) Integrity.                              Ps 78:72<\/p>\n<p>    IV. How God trained David.<br \/>\n         A. Solitude.<br \/>\n         B. Obscurity.<br \/>\n         C. Monotony.<br \/>\n         D. Reality.<\/p>\n<p>     V. Two truths worth accepting.<br \/>\n         A. In &#8220;little things&#8221; we prove ourselves capable of &#8220;big things.&#8221;<br \/>\n         B. When God develops inner qualities, he is never in a hurry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon in Life of David series. David chosen. 1 Sam 13:13-14 ============================== A PERSON AFTER GOD&#8217;S OWN HEART ============================== I. A principle worth remembering. A. God chooses the weak. 1 Cor 1:26-29 B. God&#8217;s choice of a person is contrary to human reason. 1 Sam 16:7 II. The people&#8217;s choice &#8211; King Saul. Acts 13:16-23 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[204,3564,605],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}