Well, with a Dex of 10, yeah, Heavy Armor Proficiency would be a pretty good option for you.
Furious Focus is another solid choice, since you want your one attack to hit and hit hard...and you won't be getting iterative attacks for quite awhile.
Early magic items? A Handy Haversack with a nice selection of scrolls is always good.
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A few problems,
1. you have to many feats for a first level cleric. You should have two. one for human and one for first level
2. You can't take Power attack until level 2 minimum. You need a BAB of 1.
All the feats you listing except cleave are great. I wouldn't recommend cleave as it requires you to put yourself in a position to be flanked and such. Extend spell when I think about it also isn't that great. Take craft rod and make a rod of it and everything else as well.
There is a prestige class called Crusader that gives you bonus feats. Heavy armor proficiency is there as well. I definity recommend taking heavy armor prof. It will save your life.
Early items for you include rods of reach ($3000) to make touch healings ranged, Magic weapons, A crossbow, holy water and wands of CWL/Infernal healing.
Just out of curiosity, what domains are you taking?
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Great domains. As you are already level four just ignore the archetype recommendation.
I think the level in fighter depends on your view of your character and the rolls he plays. Taking a level of fighter pushes back all of your cleric powers. So if you are a strong buffer who engages in combat after a round or two of throwing spells then just take the feat.
On the other hand if you are the first one into battle and the last one out that only uses spells before and after combat then taking fighter will get you more attacks faster and improve your Power attack sooner.
Whichever one fits better. Either way furious focus is a great thing for you.
The reason I suggest Craft Rod is that you can use it to craft Rods of Metamagic. This means one feat can get you get every metamagic you will need.
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I have found scribe scroll to be an amazing feat for clerics. Just spend your off time making all those situational spells. Its great.
As you level you will find full attacking to be better than vital strike every time. Vital Strike really needs a custom built idea to work at all.
I would recommend Heavy Armor, Scribe Scroll, Furious Focus, Craft Rod.
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I'm a big fan of playing human clerics and dropping my 18 into WIS and taking Channel Smite and Guided Hand, especially with celrics of Neutral Deities. You get to use your WIS to hit and get your bonus spell slots, allowing you to more than make up for what you lose in STR with your buffs.
The Crusader Archetype gives you a limited selection of Fighter bonus feats at the nominal cost of Diminished Spellcasting (more than offset by your high WIS), and the slightly more severe penalty of only one Domain. I consider it a fair trade for 5 extra feats and a special ability, but YMMV.
EDIT: Note to self, read threads thoroughly before posting. I see you are already level 4 and none of my advice would apply.....
More than that he's already level 7.
I really wish I knew what feats you had taken before this point.
From the post it sounds like you have Power Attack, Imp. Init., and toughness. So what was your 5th level feat?
That by itself is a pretty solid foundation so from here we can decide our strategy going into the mid to late game.
Spell storing on your weapon will be huge since it will basically let you drop touch spells during rounds you can't reach your opponent anyway into your sword and free up your arm for other things.
Get your hands on a lesser quicken rod ASAP. This will let you make those rounds you spend casting Blessing of Fervor or Divine Power more efficient by also letting you drop a Prayer, Rage or Enlarge Person depending on your focus. You can drop a Divine Power/Enlarge person in round 1 to become a rather terrifying hulk. Or you can drop a Prayer or Rage/Blessing Of Fervor to spread the love. Your call.
So as far as your level 7 feats go. Cleave by this point would be a waste seeing as you will have your first iterative attack coming soon. Extend spell might be worth considering for your hour long buffs if you use any.
Scribe Scroll is still worth it. IT's a feat that grows in value with each new spell level since your list of potential spells to use it with continues to get exponentially bigger. Just use it on outlier spells you don't memorize often like Remove Paralysis, Remove Disease or other such spells that are a boon when you need them and wasteful at all other times.
I like Furious Focus since it's basically a better version of weapon focus for you until 8th at which point it's debateable.
Another option is going the Improved Sunder route. People complain about it as if the only thign you can do with it is smash magic items. No one discusses doing things like smashing holy symbols, spell component pouchs, or other mundane but vital crap. Like building support columns.
Grab Greater Sunder at 9th and you can translate extra damage from objects into damage on your enemy. So what else?
Pushing assault is an option if you go for combat reflexes and some dex boosting item by 9th. It can give you a surprisingly solid defense if you set aside your sword for a Long Spear/Cestus combo.
LAst direction I can think of you taking it is the Improved OVerrun/Charge Through/Greater OVerrun line. If your gm allows you to use your might of the gods ability on CMB checks this can turn into quite an amusing tactic as you run over lines of enemies with your Righteous Mighted, Divine Favored form to hit the back caster with a 4d6 power attacked great sword with ferocious smite and a searing light/Inflict serious wounds dangling from the end. Seems legit.
Ignore the people telling you to take guided hand. You have an 18 (likely 20 by now) strength and can make that even bigger with your spells. Also ignore chanelling feats you've committed to a melee build by this point so the only reason to go that far is for channel smite.