Hey, I'm Lisa Whittle and welcome to the Jesus Over Everything show, affectionately known as Joe.

We're around here, you will always hear honest conversations about life, faith, and true strength,

courage, and love in the midst of our real, everyday life.

Welcoming in February as we continue our greater usability series on Joe, I truly pray this year

will be a year of greater spiritual usability in your life.

Pulling out my Bible teacher hat for this season and we're spending this first eight

weeks talking about what usability in the kingdom of God looks like through not only the book of First Samuel,

but more specifically, Kings Saul and David. Last month we looked at Saul and this month we are

taking a good look at David. How was he different from Saul? How was he the same? How did he handle

being called up for God to use him? And was such a famous tagline as the man after God's own heart, was he perfect?

It wasn't something else.

Lots to learn from him for our own life.

So if you're in, I'm in.

So let's get into it.

One of the things I think we get twisted is this idea that certain people in the Bible,

especially ones we know a lot about, are a tier above and the sense of how they were created.

David is certainly one of those because who doesn't know that he was known as someone God himself related himself to

when he called him a man after God's own heart. A man

after my own heart, of course, is what he's saying. And the Bible calls David this twice. The first

time was by Samuel, who anointed him as king, as backslidden King's Saul's successor. In 1 Samuel 1314, it says,

but now your kingdom shall not continue talking to King Saul. The Lord has sought for himself a man

after his own heart. And then later, X 1322 says, I found David's son of Jesse, a man after my own heart. He will do everything I want

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