{"id":17150,"date":"2011-03-21T03:57:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T02:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dutable.com\/2011\/03\/21\/path-to-throne-1\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T14:55:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:55:33","slug":"path-to-throne-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dutable.com\/path-to-throne-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Path To The Throne (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">By Akpeli Othuke Andrew<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anytime God describes someone as \u2018a man after my own heart,\u2019 study them carefully. Let us look at the life of David.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He had a humble start but a great finish. David began as a shepherd and ended up as a king. The chances of that happening were slim to none. In those days shepherds were so low on the totem pole that they couldn\u2019t testify in a court of law; there word wasn\u2019t considered reliable. Yet David ended up writing the most widely read and loved psalms of all time.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When you invite God into your life, He cancels the liabilities of your pas and rewrites your future. But you must choose what He has chosen for you. There is an interesting contrast between Paul and David. Paul \u2018sowed his wild oats\u2019 before he met Christ, then went on to live an exemplary life. David became a king at thirty; yet during his forty years in leadership he experienced devastating failure. There are two lessons here;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">1. Don\u2019t rush to judgement: It is not over until God says it\u2019s over. David\u2019s story is a warning to the transgressor, a rebuke to the self-righteous, a testimony to the justice of God that won\u2019t allow us to escape our consequences, and to His love that will never let go of us.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">2. God can bring good out of it: He can take every experience you have been through, both positive and negative, and make it work for good, either your good or the good of others. When you seek to fulfill God\u2019s purposes in spite of your flaws, He makes \u2018\u2026all things work together for good\u2026\u2019 (Romans 8:28)<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Feel free to add your comments in the box below. If you have a story or article you wish to publish on Breeze Magazine, send it to breezemagazine@yahoo.com<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Akpeli Othuke Andrew Anytime God describes someone as \u2018a man after my own heart,\u2019 study them carefully. Let us look at the life of David. He had a humble start but a great finish. David began as a shepherd and ended up as a king. The chances of that happening were slim to none&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[47760,47761,47762],"class_list":["post-17150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-christian-inspirational-article","tag-david-a-man-after-gods-heart","tag-lessons-from-davids-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dutable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dutable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dutable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dutable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dutable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dutable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448880,"href":"https:\/\/dutable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17150\/revisions\/448880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dutable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dutable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dutable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dutable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}