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Handling Life\u2019s Failures \nGrace in a Barren Place\nMay 14, 2017\n\nPlease turn in your Bibles to 2Samuel 4 and 9\n\nMephibosheth (muh-fib-uh-sheth) \n\nQ: Can you relate to this statement? \u201cIn my lifetime there have been a number of unlikely things that have happened to me personally?\u201d \n\nSamuel 4:4: Mephibosheth\n\uf0fc\tKing Saul\u2019s grandson \n\uf0fc\tPrince Jonathan\u2019s son\n\nQ: Have you ever had a Mephibosheth moment? (Ref. 2Samuel 9:1, 3b, 5)\n\nGrace: acceptance\u2014a positive action done on behalf of someone who did nothing to earn or deserve it. \nLo-debar: \u201cpasture-less\u201d; \u201c(lit.) A place of no bread\u201d \n\n1Chronicles 8: Called by the wrong name\no\tMeribaal: \u201copponent of false gods\u201d \no\tMephibosheth: \u201cson of shame, or \u201cshameful thing.\u201d (ref. 2Samuel 9:7-8)\n\nQ: Have you ever felt worthless? \n\nGrace: pursued: the one in hiding pursued for the purpose of blessing \n\nV 10b: (David said) \u201cAnd Mephibosheth, grandson of your master, will always eat at my table.\u201d \nV 11b: So Mephibosheth ate at David\u2019s table like one of the king\u2019s sons.\n\nGrace: taken from a place of desolation and place at the king\u2019s table \n\nWe are all Mephibosheth\u2019s \n1: Something got messed up (see Romans 3:12)\n2: We are not forgotten (See John 3:17, Luke 22:29b-30a)\n\nWhat is God\u2019s Spirit speaking into your life today? How must you respond?