After God's Heart

Confidence is a rare and powerful thing!  In a world filled with uncertainty, shifting values, and broken promises, it’s easy to place our trust in the wrong things—our abilities, resources, or the approval of others. But the story of David reminds us that real confidence begins and ends with God.

Before David ever held a crown or stepped onto a battlefield, God saw something in him that set him apart. In 1 Samuel 13:14, the prophet Samuel declared, “The Lord has sought out a man after His own heart.” These words were spoken not when David was strong or famous but as a rebuke to Saul—Israel’s first king—whose personal insecurities had driven him to become pride-filled, power-obsessed, and a people pleaser rather than a God follower. 

David wasn’t perfect. His story includes both stunning triumphs and tragic failures. Yet what made David a man after God’s own heart was his unwavering trust in the Lord. He turned to God in praise and in repentance, in victory and in despair. David knew where his help came from—and that gave him boldness in battle, peace in waiting, and hope in hardship.

This message explores what it means to be a person after God’s own heart and how that kind of heart gives us unshakable confidence—not in ourselves, but in the One who holds all things together. Like David, we are invited to place our faith not in what we can control, but in the character, promises, and power of God.