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Dropped
Jan 5, 2020
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
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.
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.
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