You Are Coming Out of Lo-debar

2 Samuel 9

09/03/2026

I received a message from a friend yesterday, and as I was reading their words, I heard “Lo-debar” in my spirit. Immediately, I knew the Lord was wanting to speak to many others who have been in a season like my friend—a season of isolation, loss, brokenness, and lack. The Lord wants to encourage you today and tell you: you are coming out of Lo-debar and you are coming to the King’s table.

In 2 Samuel 4:4 we see that Mephibosheth was the son of Jonathan who was King Saul’s son and David's beloved friend. When Mephibosheth was five years old, news came that both Saul and Jonathan had been killed in battle. His nurse picked him up and fled because the royal household was in danger. While she was fleeing, he fell and he became crippled in both feet. His circumstances left him living in a place of obscurity and isolation.

In 2 Samuel 9, we find a beautiful picture of kindness and an act of restoration of the King. David asked, “Is there yet anyone left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathans’s sake?” He learned that Jonathan’s son, Mephibosheth, was still alive, but he was living in Lo-debar.

So, David sent for him. When Mephibosheth came before the king, David told him not to fear and promised to restore to him all the land that had belonged to Saul. And then David gave him an invitation that changed everything: “Thou shalt eat bread at my table continually.” What Mephibosheth thought might be a summons to judgment became an invitation to restoration, belonging, provision, and a permanent place at the king’s table.

Lo-debar means ‘pastureless’—a place without pasture, a place that could not provide what was needed. It is a place without provision. And you could almost say, “It was a place of no love, no respect, no honor, no word, no communication, no breakthrough, and no nothing!”—a place where nothing was happening and nothing was changing and it looked like nothing would ever change.

I do not know who I am speaking to, but I am speaking to somebody who has been living in Lo-debar season. Something crippled you. The betrayal crippled you. The abandonment crippled you. The divorce crippled you. The sickness crippled you. The loss crippled you. And what happened to you left you living in a place of isolation, loss, brokenness, and lack. You have been surviving, but you have not truly been living. You have been existing, but somewhere along the way, you stopped believing that there could be anything more for you.

Some of you have been living as adults with wounds that began when you were children. You survived your childhood, but you are still carrying what happened to you in your childhood. Someone abandoned you. Someone betrayed you. Someone abused you. Someone rejected you. Someone made you feel unwanted. Someone took something from you that you were too young to understand how to process. And you grew up. But the wound grew up with you. You became an adult but part of you remained stuck in the pain of what happened when you were a child and it became your normal. You learned how to function. You learned how to survive. You learned how to smile. You learned how to take care of everyone else. However, inside is that five-year-old little boy or girl and the Lord wants you to know He sees you. God did not forget Mephibosheth and He has not forgotten you. When King David sent for him he was no longer that five-year-old little boy. I do not know how old Mephibosheth was when David sent for him, but he was an adult with a son named Mica. It is never to late for God to turn things around for you. God is turning things around for you and your latter days will be far greater than your former days.

Regardless of the age you were when you became crippled by life’s circumstances, I am here to tell you: you are coming out of Lo-debar and you are coming to the King’s table.

Lo-debar may have been where Mephibosheth was living, but it was never where he was meant to remain. And Lo-debar is not where you are going to remain either. King David sent someone into Lo-debar to show Mephibosheth kindness, and I believe King Jesus is sending someone into your Lo-debar to show you kindness and change everything for you. Someone is coming with an open door, a helping hand, an opportunity, a word, or an act of kindness that will help bring you out of the place where you have been stuck and into the place God has prepared for you. When God wants to move in your life, He will often use people to become the hands and feet of His kindness.

And someone needs to know this: you do not have to become perfect before God brings you out. You may be thinking, “I do not deserve this kindness. I am not ready. I need to fix this first. I need to change that. I need to get myself together before God can bring me into what He has for me.” But look at Mephibosheth. David did not wait for him to become physically whole before bringing him to the king’s table. The invitation came before the restoration was complete. His condition did not disqualify him from the table. And your broken places do not disqualify you from the presence of the King at His table.

You are a daughter of the Most High God. You are a son of the Most High God. You are not earning your seat at the table—you are receiving an invitation because of the King’s kindness. You have spent enough years trying to carry everything by yourself. You have spent enough time isolated, grieving, surviving, and wondering if anyone remembers you, or if God remembers you. God remembers you and the days of living in no pasture land are coming to an end. It is time to live again. It is time to laugh again. It is time to love again. It is time to enjoy life again. It is time to belong again. It is time be crippled no more.

And hear me clearly: Lo-debar was not wasted. It was painful, but God met you there. It was lonely, but He taught you that He was with you. It was a place of loss, but He taught you where your true identity was found. It was a place where you learned to trust Him when you had nothing or no one else to hold onto. Lo-debar became the place where God prepared your heart for the table.

And now the table is prepared.

I see the Lord bringing you from a place where you have lived emotionally, mentally, and financially crippled by what happened to you, but God is bringing you out of that place of brokenness into a place of healing, wholeness, and restoration of what was lost. He is bringing you to the table of continual blessings.

The King is calling you out and He is sending in help to bring you out.

You are coming from Lo-debar to the King’s table. There is wholeness at the table. There is provision at the table. There is belonging at the table. There is fellowship at the table. There is dignity at the table. There is honor at the table. There is restoration of what belongs to you at the table.

You just received your invitation. It is time to say goodbye to your Lo-debar season and hello at the Kings table.

See Haggai 2:9, Romans 8:28

Shalom,

Tammy Lynn