FROM LODEBAR TO THE PALACE
Samuel tells the story of Jonathan's son, Mephibosheth.
David and Jonathan were best friends who made a covenant with each other to look out for each others families until the day they died.
Years later when David was King - and both Saul and Jonathan were dead - David asked his servants to find out if Jonathan had any surviving children.
They came back and told him that there was one son, Mephibosheth, who had quite the story.
On the day both his Grandfather and his father were killed, his nurse fearing he would be next, grabbed him and started running. In her haste, she dropped Mephibosheth, which left him crippled. She scooped him up and fled to a place called Lodebar, a desolate, barren place filled with doom and gloom. Everyone who lived in Lodebar was at the end of their rope, they had nothing left to their name, they were jobless and cast aside by society and waiting to die.
As soon as David heard about Mephibosheth he sent chariots to Lodebar to go and get him.
The Kings chariots NEVER go to places like Lodebar so you can just imagine the shock when suddenly servants of the KING were in their midst!!! The question on everyone's lips was what on earth would THE KING ever want in Lodebar?!!?!?
Mephibosheth had grown up knowing who he was. He'd heard the stories about how his Grandfather had tried to kill the present King, so when the Kings chariots rode into the ash heap where he was existing, it's safe to say that he assumed his meaningless, pathetic life was finally over. At the very least, he would have for sure been thinking that the King had sent someone to kill what remained of Saul's family, so we can only imagine his shock, when instead of death - HE WAS BROUGHT TO THE KINGS TABLE - GIVEN A ROOM IN THE KINGS PALACE - and then told by King David that HE WAS JUST AS MUCH A SON TO HIM AS HIS OWN SONS!!!!
Mephibosheth knew his life was hopeless.
He was merely existing with no hope of truly LIVING. He survived on scraps - until THE KING came to his rescue!!!!
That's the perfect picture of where we were until JESUS came and rescued us!!!!!
We were stuck in Lodebar until THE KING of ALL KINGS chose to take us out of there and MAKE US HIS OWN!!!
We were as helpless and hopeless as Mephibosheth, until THE King gave us a seat at HIS TABLE and DECLARED that what belonged to HIM, now belonged to US - all because of the covenant JESUS established on the cross!!!
AND THAT IS THE GLORIOUS GOOD NEWS WE GET TO SHARE WITH OUR WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
JESUS, thank you for taking us out of Lodebar and bringing us into your Kingdom!!!
Thank you for setting us a place at your table!!! Thank you for giving us LIFE!!!
You have declared that all you have is ours - so thank you JESUS for your strength that is made perfect in our weakness, for your grace that is always enough, for your wisdom that is perfect, for your power that is unrivaled, and for your provisions that are endless!!!
We will NEVER forget how you rode into our Lodebar's and rescued us and we will NEVER stop telling THE STORY of how we were hopelessly lost until you found us!!!
AH JESUS, ride into Haiti, ride into this place of despair and stun countless hearts with your love.....scoop up the broken into your arms and bring them to your table that is mounded with a feast of your goodness and mercy....
YES and AMEN!!!!!
God's Word tells us to cast ALL our cares on HIM, for He cares for us.....and so today we are asking you to pray for Coffee - a dog that means the world to a family in our community - who has been bit by a trancula - which has caused a horrific infection that has resulted in him chewing his leg to the bone. Coffee is looked after by a wonderful JESUS loving family from America - Pete and Joelee and their precious little girls. A few months back Coffee gave birth to a litter of puppies - which you can imagine made those little girls smile BIG, but in the last few days, five out of the nine puppies have died due to a parvo virus. Coffee's condition and the death of these puppies has broken their hearts.
Please pray for healing for Coffee and protection for the remaining puppies, so that these little soldier sisters that are asking Jesus for a miracle, will grow up CONVINCED that HE REALLY DOES CARE and CAN DO THE IMPOSSIBLE!!!!
This is a family that has come to LODEBAR to make our Jesus famous who need to feel HIS arms today!!!!!
These are little girls that Jesus wants to use to TELL HIS STORY to the broken, so let's pray with them and for them, believing for a miracle!!!!!
Thanking Jesus for rescuing us from Lodebar,
M & S
MEET GRIN
This is GRIN - one of Coffee's puppies that we have claimed as our WATCH DOG :) It's part Doberman and part German Shepherd - so cute eh!?