{"id":12876,"date":"2026-09-16T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=12876"},"modified":"2026-09-15T15:37:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T15:37:55","slug":"a-character-of-david","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=12876","title":{"rendered":"A CHARACTER OF DAVID"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FAITH CAPSULE:<\/strong> Boldness, boasting in God, is the character of calling on God<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>1 Samuel 17<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Besides God, who are you boasting?<br \/>Boasting in God is claiming or flourishing in the name of God.<br \/>Boasting in God is the character of a believer who knows God, not just knows about God.<br \/>A boaster of God has faith to act with boldness and character.<br \/>With understanding and knowledge, boasting of God is the character of glorifying Him.<br \/>David&#8217;s life testifies that his strength is in boasting of God, his words, and his actions.<br \/>David personalizes and repeatedly speaks as if he is the only one for God, and God belongs to him alone.\u00a0<br \/>The book of Psalms testifies to the words of David that personalize God as the father to him alone:<br \/><strong><em>Psalm 4:1, &#8220;Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have relieved me in my distress; Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><br \/><strong><em>Psalm 13:3, &#8220;Consider and hear me, O Lord my God&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>(David personalizes God as the character of boasting God.)<br \/><strong><em>Psalm 86:1, &#8220;Bow down Your ear, O Lord, hear me; For I am poor and needy.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><br \/>It is glaring in his prayer that he reminds God that He is his own.<br \/>Be bold for knowing God if you know Him.<br \/>Boldness, boasting in God, is the character of calling God by His word does not return to Him void.<br \/><strong><em>Isaiah 43:26<\/em><\/strong> records the word of God,\u00a0<strong><em>&#8220;Put Me in remembrance; Let us contend together; State your case, that you may be acquitted.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><br \/>David had the knowledge and understanding of God to personalize God as his father.<br \/>David knew how to connect with God, and nothing denies him.<br \/>Gaining God&#8217;s word will gain undeniable attention from God.<br \/>Besides God, who are you boasting?<br \/>Are you boasting about your strength?<br \/>Knowing how to boast in God is rooted in understanding that God is mindful of the created one, who has a place for God in the heart.<br \/>David knows the mind of God. He knows to boast of God for all his God-given life, and God knows the mind of David.<br \/>Once, God testifies of David as a man after His own heart.\u00a0<strong><em>(1 Samuel 13:14)<\/em><\/strong><br \/>David knows the mind of God when he approached God to ask in\u00a0<strong><em>Psalm 8:4, &#8220;What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him?&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><br \/>The documentation through the Bible is for learning and understanding<br \/>for one who will give self to the word of God, having the patience and comfort of the documentation.<br \/>Grow to know God.<br \/>Let the word build you; have the boldness and the character of knowing God.<br \/>Continually, let your strength be rooted in boasting in God.\u00a0<br \/>Boasting about God is a way of glorifying God with praise.\u00a0<br \/>To acknowledge God is praising God.\u00a0<br \/><strong><em>Psalm 50:23<\/em><\/strong> buttresses this:\u00a0<strong><em>\u201cWhoever offers praise glorifies Me; and to him who orders his conduct aright I will show the salvation of God.\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prayer for today:<\/strong>&nbsp;<em>Ask that God enable boasting in Him to become your way of life.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAITH CAPSULE: Boldness, boasting in God, is the character of calling on God 1 Samuel 17 Besides God, who are you boasting?Boasting in God is claiming or flourishing in the name of God.Boasting in God is the character of a believer who knows God, not just knows about God.A boaster of God has faith to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=12876\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A CHARACTER OF DAVID<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12877,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12876\/revisions\/12877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}