Dropped But Lifted

Dropped

Jan 5, 2020

2 Samuel 4:4 NLT

4 (Saul’s son Jonathan had a son named Mephibosheth, who was crippled as a child. He was five years old when the report came from Jezreel that Saul and Jonathan had been killed in battle. When the child’s nurse heard the news, she picked him up and fled. But as she hurried away, she dropped him, and he became crippled.)

Let’s talk for a minute about Mephibosheth. 

His name translated from the Hebrew means

dispeller of shame or one who remove shame. 

That was his destiny.

 He was to be a person who would remove shame. 

What a great destiny, called an anointed by God to be the one who dispels and destroy shame.

I feel a little preachy right now 

As a matter of fact I feel like prophesying to someone in here right now.

You are not here today by accident 

Almighty God Has brought you here today so I can prophesy and speak over your  life , your divine destiny

Just like Mephibosheth, You also my friend are called to be a dispeller of  shame

You are called by God to be an instrument of his powers 

to be his hand extended reaching out to those who have been dropped in life.

There is an anointing coming  upon you Now to lift a heavy burden of guilt and shame of the shoulders of those Who have fallen down and are getting knocked down by life. 

Receive the burden removing, guilt busting  Yoke destroying  anointing Jesus name

OK back to our story.  Mephibosheth had a destiny over his life to deliver people from Shame…

But something happened that derailed him. Something knocked him off track. He was dropped.

But let me quickly interject to you that though he was dropped he did not die.

He was dropped and not destroyed.

Drop but not dead.

Dropped and not helpless.

Dropped but not defeated. 

Dropped but not done. 

I hope by now you are asking what does Pastor mean by dropped 

Well m glad you asked me that. 

What I mean by Dropped is things didn’t quite out quite work out the way you thought they would or the way you were hoping for.

Your dream marriage turned into a nightmare.

You weren’t treated right.

Somebody was abusive to you verbally, physically emotionally.

Or maybe you just weren’t handled right.

Somebody was ignorant of your worth and your value.

And they took you for granted,

they were careless with your heart.

You were overlooked, underestimated and ignored.

Dropped means:

to fall or move to a position that is lower, farther back or inferior.

*bungled 

*fumbled 

*flattened 

*floored

I think if we can be honest about it for just a minute based on these definitions,

we’ve all been dropped at some point in life, at least to some measure.

Some to a greater and some to a lesser degree.…

 Dropped...

damage but not destroyed, 

broken but not useless,

fumbled but not forgotten,

flattened but not forsaken.

The wonderful thing is this:

God does his best work with the broken.

One of my favorite verses that prove this is 

1 Corinthians 1:26–29 NLT

26 Remember, dear brothers and sisters, that few of you were wise in the world’s eyes or powerful or wealthy when God called you. 27 Instead, God chose things the world considers foolish in order to shame those who think they are wise. And he chose things that are powerless to shame those who are powerful. 28 God chose things despised by the world, things counted as nothing at all, and used them to bring to nothing what the world considers important. 29 As a result, no one can ever boast in the presence of God.

I have to tell you that I know what it feels like to be dropped. 

And I know what it feels like to be flattened and floored. 

I know it’s feels like to see your dreams vanish Into thin air.

I know what it feels like… 

To feel like you are damaged goods and no one wants you.

 I know what it feels like to feel like you’re invalidated

and that the rest of your life you will be less than...

Less than what you should be,

less than the best you could be. 

I’m sure that Mephibosheth felt those exact same feelings. 

No not on the day that he was dropped.

On that day all he felt was pain as his legs and or ankles were broken 

But as he grew, as time went on, he felt the lasting affects of being dropped.

He felt the pain of being less than other boys his age.

He felt the emotional pain of being inferior to others.

He couldn’t run.

He couldn’t jump.

He couldn’t kick a ball or climb a tree.

Then add to that the fact that he was displaced from a position of honor and wealth and influence, and had to live his life on the run hiding out.

Now as we read about Mephibosheth we have a little better insight into his life.

He had been dropped… Not just physically, but life itself and dropped him.

He had been dealt a bad hand.

So when we look at him we are looking at a:

disappointed,

disenfranchised,

depressed

and discouraged man.

And this is the condition he’s in when David finds him.

But if you go way back in the story…

Many years prior to this day, before the day that he was dropped,

his daddy Jonathon who was the prince and David are entered into a covenant,

that when David was king he would show favor to Jonathon‘s house.

That in itself says a lot that Jonathan the next heir to the throne,

prince of Israel went to his best friend David and entered into a covenant

that when David became king he would look after Johnathan‘s house.

So even the heir to the throne knew that David was anointed and chosen by God to become king.

Now that David is established as king,

David’s heart is yearning to find someone of the house of Saul and Jonathan,

anyone so he could fulfill his covenant promise and show them favor and show them mercy. 

This shows the heart of David because from biblical times all the way to recent history when a throne was usurped or a kingdom was taken over every one in lineage to the throne was killed.

2 Samuel 9:7–8 NLT

7 “Don’t be afraid!” David said. “I intend to show kindness to you because of my promise to your father, Jonathan. I will give you all the property that once belonged to your grandfather Saul, and you will eat here with me at the king’s table!” 8 Mephibosheth bowed respectfully and exclaimed, “Who is your servant, that you should show such kindness to a dead dog like me?”

When David finds Mephibosheth he is living in the land of Lode-bar....

The word Lode-bar means pasture-less..

In others words, dry and desolate 

This dwelling place is very much a reflection Of the heart and the self image of Mephibosheth or that he had of himself. 

How do I know this? 

Because when Mephibosheth came before David this is what he said about himself… 

What is thy servant that you should look up on such a dead dog as I am?

So he was not only crippled physically,

he was crippled mentally and emotionally.

His words reflected his self image and his estimation of his self-worth.

He said, I am dead = Useless, helpless, non-productive

He said, I am a dog = contemptible, to be despised.

Mephibosheth let his circumstances and his environment define him.

He had let what happened to him decide what happened in him.

In other words, he let a bad experience set the course of his life or for the rest of his life.

Listen to what I’m saying Church, there is not one of you listening today that has not had a bad experience in life.

But there comes a time when you have to make a choice. 

Who do I want to be, 

who am I going to be 

which one am I going to believe

Am I going to believe what my circumstances have said about me?

Or am I going to believe what God said about me?

Jalen play some worship musick and put some stank on it

I wanna share revelation with you that has come to me while preparing this word this week 

 here it is

David didn’t make Mephibosheth something that he wasn’t already

What do you mean pastor ? 

He was already royalty.

He was already Kingly seed.

He was already the grandson of King Saul.

Most likely had the kingdom had not been given to David Mephibosheth would’ve ultimately become king.

My point is this.

David didn’t make him something he wasn’t already

but what David did was pick him back up.

He lifted him back up.

He spoke to the king in him.

He spoke to the potential and all the possibilities that were in him.

He spoke to the greatness in him.

He spoke to the anointing in him.

He spoke to the destiny in him.

David didn’t focus on his lameness he focused on his greatness.

David didn’t focus on his weakness he focused on his strengths 

David didn’t put him in a back room eating with Servants…

He put him right at the Kings table 

2 Samuel 9:13 NLT

13 And Mephibosheth, who was crippled in both feet, lived in Jerusalem and ate regularly at the king’s table.

The point of this verse is this…

It didn’t matter where Mephibosheth came from.

It didn’t matter his lameness.

It didn’t matter that he had been dropped.

It didn’t matter all the things that he had missed.

It didn’t matter that for years and years he lived like a bagger.

And I wish you would just say those words with me today… It doesn’t matter.

It doesn’t matter where you came from or what you came out of or what happened to you.

It really doesn’t even matter if you were dropped or if you fell down or if you jumped what matters is what are you doing now?

What decisions are you making now?

Which direction are you going now?…

OK you were dropped.

OK you fell down, you slipped and you made a mistake.

Or OK well you weren’t dropped and you didn’t slip you actually with forethought and intent ran and jumped right in the middle of it.

Well so did David and so did Moses but God still used them.

And God still uses you or will still use you.

There is room at the table for you.

In the presence of the king everything changes.

In the presence of the king it doesn’t matter that you were dropped.

At the Kings table we’re all the same.

At the Kings table no one talks about all our fallings and our failings.

At the Kings table the focus is not on our failings but on our fellowship and our future.

Yes I’ve been dropped we’ve been dropped but I’ve been lifted we’ve been lifted