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Eunice A Mothers example Mephibosheth Story of a nobody Three unnamed Woman So obscure, not even named Nathan Facing intimidating circumstances Shamgar Giving God what you have Ananias Obeying when you don’t understand Jehonadab A Fathers example. Little known Great Impact!. Eunice
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Eunice • A Mothers example • Mephibosheth • Story of a nobody • Three unnamed Woman • So obscure, not even named • Nathan • Facing intimidating circumstances • Shamgar • Giving God what you have • Ananias • Obeying when you don’t understand • Jehonadab • A Fathers example Little known Great Impact!
Eunice • A Mothers example • Mephibosheth • Story of a nobody • Three unnamed Woman • So obscure, not even named • Nathan • Facing intimidating circumstances • Shamgar • Giving God what you have • Ananias • Obeying when you don’t understand • Jehonadab • A Fathers example Little known Great Impact!
A Covenant Made 1 Samuel 20:15 “… but you shall not cut off your kindness from my house forever, no, not when the Lord has cut off every one of the enemies of David from the face of the earth.”
Mephibosheth 2 Samuel 9:3-9
Story of a nobody 2 Samuel 9:8 “Then he bowed himself, and said, ‘What is your servant, that you should look upon such a dead dog as I?”
God delights in Using nobodies Acts 4:13 “Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they realized that they had been with Jesus.”
Story of a victim 2 Samuel 9:3 “…And Ziba said to the king, ‘There is still a son of Jonathan who is lame in his feet.”
Love by doing nothing Romans 13:10 “Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.”
Story of Grace 2 Samuel 9:7 “… 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 continually.”
Story of Grace Ephesians 2:8 “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God.”
Story of Expectations Mephibosheth probably expected destruction
Story of Expectations Mephibosheth probably expected destruction But God had restoration in mind 2 Samuel 9:7 “… and will restore to you all the land of Saul your grandfather”
Story of Covenant Relationship 1 Samuel 20:15 “but you shall not cut off your kindness from my house forever..” 2 Samuel 9:1,7 “that I may show him kindness for Jonathan’s sake?” “for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father’s sake”
Story of Covenant Relationship David knew that God takes vows seriously Proverbs 20:25 “It is a snare for a man to devote rashly something as holy, and afterward to reconsider his vows.”
Story of love and gratitude 2 Samuel 19:24-30 30 “…Rather, let him take it all, inasmuch as my lord the king has come back in peace to his own house.”