Even When People Don't Pick You, God Picked You

Main message: God calls believers to stop living with an "orphan spirit" and to embrace their identity as sons and daughters, receiving restoration of identity, inheritance, and relationship with the Father. The story of Mephibosheth and David illustrates how God restores those who forget who they are.

Key points:

• Learning to be a faithful son/daughter to the heavenly Father helps you be a better father, husband, leader, etc.
• Many Christians live like orphans—feeling abandoned, fearful, and carrying false identity—rather than as children of God.
• Earthly father-child relationships shape how people view God; attacks on those relationships can foster an orphan spirit.
• Mephibosheth (Jonathan’s son) is a biblical example: royalty in his blood but living in Lo-debar and calling himself a "dead dog" because he’d forgotten his identity.
• David restores Mephibosheth—returning his inheritance and welcome at the king’s table—paralleling how God restores our sonship.
• Romans 8:15 affirms believers' adoption into sonship so we can cry, “Aba, Father,” instead of living in fear.

Scriptures mentioned: Proverbs 4:1-4, 2 Samuel 9:6-8, Romans 8:15