And David said, Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul, that I may shew him kindness for Jonathan's sake? Then king David sent, and fetched him out of the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel, from Lodebar. And David said unto him, Fear not: for I will surely shew thee kindness for Jonathan thy father's sake, Then the king called to Ziba, Saul's servant, and said unto him, I have given unto thy master's son all that pertained to Saul and to all his house.
2 Samuel 9: 1,5, 7, 9 KJV
The place Lodebar is a ghetto and the word means "no pasture,"(2 Samuel 17:27) "no word" or "no communication". In Lodebar the people living there were in the bondage of poverty, it is a place where the inhabitants have lost communication with their maker, with the outside world, with all the things that matters to growth, destiny achievement, purpose and success. Lodebar is the place where the residents are continually looking for a word from God, a word that would lift them up and out, a place that would bring the change they seek.
It is important not only to get out of Lodebar but to get Lodebar out of you…..We need to get out of the place of no communication, a place where is do no get the word from God. We must move to a place of pasture.
Mephiboseth was born into a royal family but ended up in a place where he lost the communication to royalty, a place where his life had no pasture and yielded no fruit. He was taken by his maid from the royal home to Lodebar to keep him alive. A lot of us find ourselves in Lodebar - we are at a place where there is no pasture, a place where our life does not yield any fruit. Some of us are at that point where we seek a word from God and have found none. While other are in the place where no communication takes place. We either can not communicate or are finding it hard to communicate -simply because we can’t pray or we find it hard to do so for one reason or the other.
However, we have a sonship with God through Christ Jesus. The King is asking today is there not another son/daughter of mine yet that He can bless? You need to come out of Lodebar….because there is a restoration coming your way.
Just as King David asked if there was yet no one from the house of Saul (the former king) that he could bless, the same way God is seeking you to bless you and restore to you everyone of those things that is your which had being taken away from you.
David restored all; and God is going to restore all!
