Bishop Joseph Walker III - "Lodebar"

father we thank you we bless you now we thank you for your word in this place and we pray that this word will speak life father let somebody's soul be saved but somebody's life be turned around completely forever would give your name the glory to give your name to praise the body name of Jesus we pray every heart said a man second samuel chapter by now David said is there still anyone who was left in the house of Saul that I may show him kindness for Jonathan say there was a seven of the house of Saul whose name with zipper so when they had called him to David the king said to him are you zipper he said at your service then the king said is there God steal some part of the house of Saul to whom I may show the kindness of God as ever said to the king there is still a son Jonathan who is lame in his feet so the king said to him where is he zipper said to the king of deed is in the house of the cur the son of a meal in know the bar then King David sent and brought him out of the house of Mercure the song of a miel from lo debar and when Madiba Jeff the son of Jonathan the son of Saul had calmed to David he fell on his face and prostrating himself and then David said mephibosheth the answer and here is your servant so David said to him do not fear for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father's sake and will restore to you all the land of Saul your grandfather and you shall eat bread at my table continuously verse 13 if you don't mind says this so my fever shelf dwelt in Jerusalem for he ate continually at the Kings table and he was laying in both his feet you may be seated in the presence of the Lord on today and today I want to talk about lo debar everybody say lo debar one of the things that every believer should realize is that regardless of the context or situation you might find yourself in the plans of God for your life still manifests regardless of the adverse conditions in that context make no mistake about it nothing can prevent the will of God from coming to fruition no devil inhale can stop the plans of God for your life we will discover this in this story of Mephibosheth some of you are meeting him for the first time others of you are being reintroduced to him but his plight is one that is very familiar to many of us because there are so many comparisons to Mephibosheth and our own human context the Bible tells us that we meet him in a place called lo debar lo debar is what I consider a hotspot it's one of those places where it's transitional it's Reville Reville Ettore it it is significant in regards to what God is doing in our lives watch this for a moment lo debar as a place of isolation a place of rejection it is a place for people put you when they don't know what to do with you it's a place where you're misunderstood it is an interesting place of ambiguity lo debar lo debar actually when you begin to break the word down the actual word lo in the Hebrew language here is the common particle of negation meaning no so whenever you see lo in the text here it is no debar is a word that is similar to the word pastor or word interestingly enough and so as a result when you put these words together no the bar literally means no pastor or no word imagine that it's a place where the grass is not green there is no vegetation there is no life there is no fruitfulness it is a barren place and to add insult to injury it is a place where there is no word there is no revelation and make no mistake about it people of God a lot of folk up in here today have been in lo debar and some of you are in lo debar situations right now lo debar can be in your spirit can be in your mind to be in your human context many of you will leave church today and have to go home to lo debar and sometimes when people put you in lo debar they oftentimes attach surnames to you that permanently define you as the one who's in lo debar but oftentimes they have no idea about your story people make assumptions about you being a lo debar without having a comprehensive understanding of how you got there but I've come to tell you today and no matter how dismal it may appear to be in lo debar then no the bar can be a place where you can experience your greatest turnaround lo debar can be a place where you can experience your greatest breakthrough god has the power to beat you in lo debar and turn your situation around some of you have no idea that there are people that have been looking at you and shaking their heads and say wow I really feel sorry for them that they're caught up in a load of bar situation but they need to understand that God is gonna have the last laugh that God has the power and capacity to give you the greatest miracle of your life then lo debar will not be your final destination but that God is gonna use this season and reveal some things to you about himself and he's gonna bring you to a place of blessing that's going to blow your mind you will not leave here the same way you came there is a blessing in this house today and somebody in this place ought to be ready to receive it David King David comes to the throne and it is interesting because as you know King David was literally anointed to be king of Israel Saul had come to the throne a different way but we do recognize that whenever there was a transition of authority in Israel of power the incoming King can do what he will with the old regime and it was customary to literally annihilate all those who are in allegiance to the old king as the new king would come to the throne but this wasn't the case with David because the Bible declares that when David comes to the throne he rises up one day and David medievil declares is there anybody left after all the things that have happened at the so many have been annihilated during the transition is there anybody left in the house of Saul that I can show kindness - may I park it just for a moment and declare that he did not say was there anybody qualified or anybody worthy but he said was there anybody left and I'm talking to a remnant of people here today who have survived something that somebody else did to survive and the truth of the matter is you in that crowd that can say I'm one of the ones that's left I may not have everything I'm supposed to have but I thank God that I'm still here everything may not be like I wanted to be but I thank God that I'm still here tell somebody I'm a survivor I'm here I'm here a human ears is there anybody left in the house of soul and zipper the king servant comes and zipper says to David David there is one who is he his name is Monty Bashar he is the son of Jonathan he is the grandson of Saul you have to understand the relationship between David and Jonathan with that Jonathan loved David and the Bible declares now that that Jonathan has a son and that Sons is Mophie Bichette where is he he is in the house of mature and he is literally in lo debar he's in a place of no pasture he's in a place of no word he's in a place of despair he's in a place where there is no productivity and watch what King David requires King David on the throne says tell him that the king wants to see him regardless of his situation he needs to know that he has an invitation from the king and from that moment zipper left and zipper went looking and for Mephibosheth now I need you to understand something People of God that when you begin to look at him in lo debar the question has to be raised what is it that caused him to be in a context like that but you can understand how a Fitness chef got in lo debar maybe you can understand how you and I end up in places that are inconsistent with God's will for our lives let's look carefully first of all and his challenging dilemma because the truth of the matter is his dilemma is rooted in his paralysis I want you to get this look if you will that second Samuel chapter 4 and verse 4 let me introduce him to you the Bible says that Jonathan Saul's son right had a son who was a lame on his feet how did he get lame well when he was 5 years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan came to Jezreel wait a minute what happened remember that was a great conflict the great war and and and and Saul had been killed and Jonathan had died but looking what happened but the nurse in an attempt to save the baby child grabbed this five-year-old child and fled from the war and the Bible says and it happened as she was running out making haste to flee the Bible declares that he failed because he was a lame his name was mephibosheth here is the reality of his paralysis when you look at his paralysis you must do thorough analysis because here it is that the truth is that he is lame because of the carelessness of somebody else that somebody picked him up but got distracted was not completely focused and dropped him and as a result of being dropped at five years or he does not have the ability to progress at the pace in which God has intended for his life and we began gonna be honest today there's a crowd of folk in here today that are struggling with the same kind of paralysis there are a lot of things you can tell tests that are result of things you have done for yourself but then there are other things that have happened to you that you can say I ain't gonna lie pastor the truth is these things have happened because of somebody else's carelessness in my life make no mistake about it all of us know what it's like to be dropped by somebody else somebody that made you a promise but drop you somebody that abused you and drop you somebody that did you wrong and drop you and it caused the paralysis in your situation and your honor but to progress at the pace in which God intended for your life make no mistake about it we have paralysis in a lot of areas some of us domestically the marriage is at a standstill somebody else financially the money ain't going nowhere somebody else emotionally and spiritually you have no idea about how many people in here are in a place where you are lame there is no movement and the top it all your paralysis has put you in the policeman called lo debar watch very carefully the Bible declares he's in lo debar somebody shout lo debar you know where this place he is because the truth is it's in your spirit the fact that he is there once I am a what you have named me once you have named me paralytic you must now create an institutional reality consistent with the name that you gave me you must create a place that reinforces and reaffirms what you have called me because if you called me the crippled one you better put me somewhere that constantly reminds me that I'm the crippled one because if you don't create a place that we affirms what you called me one day I might wake up and realize what my real name is the truth is if it day he wakes up he's reminded that he's the crippled one he's the one that'll never get out of this situation lo debar is a dismal place it is a place of isolation the place where you can be around a lot of people but still be by yourself I'm talking to somebody right now you know what it's like they have a crowd of people but still be by yourself nobody understands the depth of your pain nobody understands what you're going through people say you got all these around you but nobody feels you it's because you're in a place of isolation and once the isolation kicks in then here comes the interrogation because this is when the devil says what's wrong with you why don't you have this and why don't you have that God must not love you look at you can't move your paralytic you have lameness in your legs everybody else is moving on why isn't it happening for you everybody else is getting married why ain't it happening for you everybody else is graduating why isn't happening for you everybody else's paying their bills why you been happening for you and so all of a sudden the devil gets in your head and once he gets in your head it forces you to go through introspection because when you go through introspection you have two choices either you can go through a breakdown or you can declare I'm gonna get a breakthrough I believe somebody here has made up your mind I'm not getting a breakdown but I'm gonna have a breakthrough I'm not gonna let that devil mess with my mind I'm not gonna let that devil make me believe that God has given up on me so when you go through this crazy place you come to this realization a context of discovery I need somebody to understand that God says you're about to be discovered tell somebody you're about to be discovered you are here is watch how God moves it's a powerful revelation because in the midst of the greatest frustrations of your life in the midst of the most heated moments of your life God or step in and God will give you a promise zipper shows up looking for mephibosheth he shows up at the right time at the right place looking for mephibosheth when it's your time God will do whatever is necessary to bring it to pass God knows exactly where you are you don't have to pass out your business card you don't have to say Here I am God God knows exactly where you are he knows your address he knows the tears you cried he knows the nights you've been up all night long and zipper it's the messenger who will show up and he's a stranger looking for another man's head I come with the word from the king and some of you you sit in church but you mean self and you don't want to speak to nobody but you never know who God has placed around you to give you our word to tell you that something is about that happen in your life look at your neighbor tell them somebody you ain't even met yet it's on the way to bless you here it is and one of the most powerful revelations of this text I don't want you to miss it one of the most powerful revelations of this text don't miss your shout right here is the fact that mephibosheth is in lo debar it is not ideal it is not conducive to fruitfulness it is a place of depression despair it is frustrating and irritating but he is still there and there comes a moment in your life when God won't let you leave a bad situation because God says your next breakthrough will not come in a place of ease and comfort but your next break those don't come in a place where you've been trying to get out of huh that's why you gotta be not weary in well-doing but in due season you gonna reap if you faint not tell somebody stay there then a breakthrough comes I know they don't like you on the job but stay there I know they roll their eyes at you but stay there I know as hell and high water but stay there you stay there until the prick who shows them [Music] ziba represents release zipa represents release here it is it is a powerful revelation don't miss this and so when zipper shows up what does he go zipper goes to load a bar what is low the bar no passion no word what has mephibosheth been in a place with no word zipper shows up with a word and he goes to a place where there has been no word and when mephibosheth gets the memo he does not ask anybody what do you think I should do y'all think I should go with this man cuz when you've been in the Hale that long and when you finally get a word you can care less what people think about it you pack your bags get your stuff together and you say I'm out here I wish I had a witness up in here today tell your neighbor this is your last day in lo debar [Music] Kate wants to see you Kane wants to see you King wants to see you King wants to see you King King here it is I want you to get something don't miss this the Bible says watch it in verse five I want you to see this in verse number five King David sent and brought him out of the house of maccer the son of a MIA from lo debar and the Bible says in verse six watch it now in Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan the son of Saul had come to David he fell on his face and prostrated himself I want you to remember that hold honor that we're coming back to that then David said mephibosheth and the answer here is your servant and David said to him don't fear I know what you're thinking you're thinking because I'm on the throne I'm going to annihilate you you're thinking because you are part of the old reg regime I'm gonna kill you I have a right to but no no no no I'm not gonna kill you I'm gonna show you kindness for your daddy see and I'm gonna restore to you all the land of soul your granddaddy and you are going to eat bread continually at my table and Mephibosheth bowed down and said you're gonna do something like that for me I'm nothing but a dead dog he has a problem because nobody has ever told my favorite chef who he was he has been in a context while he has awakened every morning and has been told he was the crippled one he was the one who was cropped nobody told him about his legacy nobody told him about his history nobody reminded him of his bloodline he never knew about his father remember he was a young boy five years old when he was dropped he never knew about the relationship that Jonathan his father had with David he never understood his own bloodline and Cicero said to know nothing of what has happened before you before you were born is to remain a child forever and there's a generation of us that know nothing about where we come from and you'll never reach your destiny if you don't know your history you got to know that you just didn't drop into the earth there was some things taking place before you got here and if you're not careful it will mess up your perspective because here he is saying I'm a dead dog I'm nothing but a dead dog listen he's unable to embrace what God is about to do in his life because he has literally been poisoned by a culture better spit venom in his life and then spoke negativity to him and shattered his own esteem and think about it for a moment how many people come to church week after week and you hear a word from God about your awesome destiny and promise because you in context but people keep telling you ain't gonna have nothing and you ain't gonna be none you allow your esteem to be so messed up that you see yourself like a dead dog I have come to come against their spirit of low self-esteem and bind it and cast it in the pit of hell look at your neighbor say do you know who you are tell them you are fearfully and wonderfully made you are the head and not the tail you are above it not good neither you are not a dead dog it is not what people say about you it is about what God says about you you are not what they say about you you are what God says about you you have visited you dreams and you greatness in you destiny in you and then matter who reject you who labels you you are God's child [Applause] you are part of a generation editing your blood some things you just can't help because it's in your blood some blessings you just can't help because it's in your blood but Abraham Abraham God got a promise to Abraham and because Abraham was told that out of your seed every nation of the world is gonna be blessed Abraham because she's just crisis of the bloodline of Abraham when I got saved by the blood of Jesus Christ guess what I got into the family so when I'm in the family it's just in my blood so I'm sorry if you hate on me if you don't like me touch your neighbor say it's just in my blood to be blessed it's in my blood people want you to walk around throw up on the floor up put your head down you can always tell when people don't know who they are you can always tell when people don't know their destiny because you can look at their posture they always despondent always walking down with their hair down but then when you walk around with your head up with your shoulders go ahead people call you stuck-up and arrogant people look at you talk about you thank you all that touch your neighbor tell them I am all that tell them I am the head ah what God said I am what do you want me to be walking around the press and rope and pitiful that ain't my testimony I gotta get a word to somebody today God sent you here today to give you this one word God is about to change your destiny [Applause] just like that but Phoebus f went from Lord of our no pasture nowhere to Jerusalem at the Kings table yes life death I have no justifiable explanation for it I have no theological treaty to argue I have no philosophical explanation for how this has happened all I can tell you is that when God gets ready to bless you he can do it just like that oh my God look at your neighbors are you better get one quick last look at me tell me because what God is getting letter to do in my life it's about that happens so quick that you better get this last look because this is the last time I'm gonna be this broke this is the last time I'm gonna be this depressed this is the last what's a head or witness up in here God is about to give you promotion I said God is about to give you supernatural promotion you've been rejected you've been dejected you've been forgotten you have struggled you have been wounded people have lied on you people have put you in a place where they thought they could define you but I come to declare what Psalm 75 6 says that promotion does not come from the east it does not come from the West but promotion comes from God look at your neighbors say God's gonna do this and I come to tell somebody right now that God is about to bring you to the Kings table and God told me to tell somebody right now it doesn't matter what has happened in your life God told me to tell you get ready get ready because something awesome is about to happen in your life would you reach over and just grab somebody by the hand and I want you to squeeze that hand and put on it just a little bit and I want you to tell them I know you've been in Luna bar tell them I know it's been rough tell them I know you felt like giving up but tell them I got a word from God tell them your time has come the king wants to see you and tell them I come to snatch you on a load of our to pull you out of that place of depression I come to pull you out of that race that the Internet's been trying to rob you up and tell me what I let your hand go I want you to act like you are the text [Music] somebody I'd open up your mouth and you are idea gone I'm at the pigs table table Dever you lied on me never you talked about me Deborah you said I'd never be nothing but yes [Music] [Applause] I want you to see something I want you to see something watch this don't miss this don't miss this I want you to lift your hands don't miss this don't miss this don't miss this don't miss this when with Mephibosheth gets in load of our pain rejection despair put him there he can't walk but zipper comes with the word and zipper teaches us that no matter how rough your situation is God got a word that'll bring you out I don't know how my favorite chef made it to Jerusalem I can see it in my mind's eye he can't walk y'all but when you need a break through your crawl your scratch away you do whatever you gotta do say some are you making too many excuses but God said the problem with some of us is that we forget about verse 6 first never six declares this that Weber famouse of God in front of the king he failed on his face and he was fated himself to many of us we've come before the king and we're trying to stand up but to know there's something wrong with you that's what God says I don't need to the stand before me I need to know if I got somebody [Applause] [Music] that's usable by anybody else because I needed the key I wish I had somebody here that can make your weather this alter better to an altar because what I need to do what I can do what [Music] [Applause] [Music] I didn't come for you but I came because I need only what the king can give me okay I thought you got a walk I don't care if you got to get in this house but I hear God saying I'm about to turn some things around in your life oh the power of God is in here today see we got some God tracers in here today some people that emit of your mind I am NOT gonna let lo debar break me why don't you come down and people ask you why in the world when you go down there that they don't touch cuz I didn't come for people I came because I had an appointment with the key so anyway I can get that the one with the issue blood I brush my way I press my way I'll do whatever I got to do I don't know your Jesus hallelujah I'm looking for some dish with people that they write their own you're pure just making it all about what everybody else has but today Jesus Lord you know how much I hurt you know the pain but today thank you Jesus I've been in loader bot too long [Music] I touch a people know it [Music] oh my god oh my god Jesus hallelujah tired of faking it y'all [Music] oh Jesus Oh God sometimes you gotta break protocol you just need too much some God to play with this day my title I'm not worried about my position Jesus took this service today just say that's what I'm that's what I want that's what I want [Music] young person let's try to hold it together touchdown that's struggling right now come on yes that spirit of suicide he's moving at this way he's building at this place hallelujah Jesus oh the pepper Shepherd here what would you say [Applause] situation right into my situation should be yes oh my god thank you lord [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] he's moving in [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] thank you Jesus thank you Jesus [Music] thank you Jesus [Music] [Applause] all of this [Music] Jesus when your people go through with the generations at six you will your people God that have come to do that give you glory do anything else we just want to be [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] it's time that you go back to your seat I just want you to hug somebody and tell them welcome to the table come on tell them welcome to the table your role would you find somebody just tell them welcome to the Kings table hallelujah come on I want you to go back to your seat all the Anur tickets in this place today your no tickets at this place today and listen while they're going back to their seats I want you to hear this and I don't want you to leave out don't let the enemy rob you of this blessing don't let the enemy rob your this blessing listen listen sometimes you got to get so comfortable in the presence of God we can sew in a hurry so in a hurry but you gotta understand if we were at a Michael Jackson concert nobody would leave while the King of Pop was on the stage nobody would have left an Elvis concert the king of rock and roll nobody would have left the James Brown concert the king of soul but all of those kings are gone but the cake we're talking about is still on the phone [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] when zipa was in forgot a word to fit michelle in lo debar even ask for anybody's permission he got this stuff and he moved out of the place called no word no pastor and he went just like that to the Kings table somebody came in the day and you were in a load of our situation and God sent you a word by the man of God today and God says now listen you don't need anybody's permission don't worry about money anybody's gonna say about if you're not saved maybe if you're not in the relationship with the king you need to be in maybe you're in the city of Nashville looking for a church home when you can grow in the Word of God maybe you relocated to Nashville and maybe you need a church home away from home whatever the case is I want you now Holly for you mephibosheth I call it you forward right now that want you to hear this but membership was at the Kings table and steel lane which meant that when the world rejected him the King accepted him so don't worry about what people said about you and how they label you you are not what they say about you you are what God says about you so I'm calling you from that top balcony to the floor yes is your moment I call it you I don't know the bar come on get to this all come on this time [Music] the West from the South cultures that snake God [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] I'm gonna be done I'm gonna be done but I haven't spent a lo of saying this that I've done I promise you at Mephibosheth this is your this is your clarion call this is God speaking to you you can receive this or you can reject this but you will know for a fact that this is of the Lord God who speaks to you you came in a day and you're caught up in lo debar you caught up in stuff that people don't even know what to do with you you don't even know how you got caught up but the truth is you're in situations you know who you are it's it can be gang it can be drugs I just feel the Lord saying it is so countercultural that people look at you and some of people in your own family are afraid of you but you keep coming down here because the word keeps speaking to you because the word appeals to the good nature that's in you because there are a lot of folk that's doing what you doing that ain't even here and talk about it but God has saved you for reason and God has said I'm gonna take your life and I'm gonna use it as a testimony because you are literally in a living hell but God is about to show you what healing that looks like on the other side and it doesn't matter who labeled you what they call you it doesn't matter how many years you spent in jail it doesn't matter what rap sheet you got cop says today and watch what I want to do with your life what I'm gonna use you thank you that's what then that's that person but all around you all they're doing is spitting dinner if it context you go to you being told what cannot happen what will not happen you've been no no encouragement whatsoever because you're in an environment that constantly reaffirms why you ought to be in lo debar but you got a word today and you know everything inside of you say I do I'll to be at that altar but you'll see a word about the people who've been spending them in your life and what they're gonna think I you're the Lord saying if you're gonna invest more into what people say about you than what I'm saying to you stay where you are but if you ready to walk into this new season if you ready to go into what God is calling you to do there is a seat at the Kings table here it is God says let me tell you what the Kings table is it is a prophetic manifestation of what God spoke in Psalm 23 that effort Kings take anybody that said you went don't be done but for you in the process there's room at the table it's for you Mephibosheth it's for you that they gave up oh it's for you that they said that there's no hope ah but [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] they oughta be joining me give me glory [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] that's [Music] [Applause] [Music] all my favorite chef needs to know is what you come from there was so much greatness in you as a grandmother that's been praying for this moment that's a granddaddy that was on his face for this moment for you you come from a heritage of people who are survivors and I dare you give up I dare you quit it's in your bloodline to make it and God brought you here to give you this word but the King won't to see you so we celebrate this moment today we give God the glory come on come on give God glory Oh hallelujah father I thank you right now for every life every decision in this place today and I give you praise and today begins the best days of the rest of their lives then the mighty name of Jesus for a relationship for salvation for restoration we declare it down done signed sealed and delivered in Jesus name somebody say Amen praise God I want you to go to your left or my right come on let's thank God it is a blessing y'all it is a blessing come on it is a blessing hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah God is so awesome God is so awesome God is so awesome I look forward to meeting all of you on Saturday new comers fellowship come on God is so awesome my god oh look at that how God is moving down he is moving he is saving lives he is restoring families he's bringing people back together I give God the glory for what he is doing hallelujah thank you Jesus thank you Jesus hallelujah our leaders are coming now cuz we prepare to sharing communion thank God today hallelujah God oh you're awesome [Music] thank you Father but cavalry we bless you we thank you for all that you have done and we never shall forget the price you paid that we might have eternal life bless us now in Jesus

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