Text: Judges 11:1-11
Memory verse:
““Can a woman forget her nursing child, And not have compassion on the son of her womb? Surely they may forget, Yet I will not forget you.”
‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭49‬:‭15‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Christine is a global Christian speaker and Bible teacher and founder of A21, an anti-human-trafficking organization. Christine remains a voice for the voiceless, abused, and forgotten, and her life has helped millions worldwide. Immediately after her birth in 1966, in Sydney, Australia, she was abandoned. No name was given to her, and her birth certificate literally recorded her as “Unwanted”. By human standards, her life began as a mistake, an inconvenience, an afterthought.
Growing up, Christine wrestled with deep questions of worth, feelings of rejection, and a sense of not belonging. Her memory could have defined her as “Discarded, “Discarded”, “Unwanted” and “Forgotten” but God had already written a different story.
Eventually, when Christine encountered Christ, a powerful truth reshaped her identity, as she said, “I may have been unwanted by people, but I was wanted by God.” Her memory was redeemed, not erased.
“He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world…” (Eph 1:4).
She was labeled ‘unwanted,’ but heaven called her chosen.” Her rejection at birth did not cancel her destiny. God does not consult human acceptance before assigning purpose. You may be abandoned by people, but you are never abandoned by God (Isa 49:15).
According to our text, Jephthah was born by a prostitute. His half-brothers chased him out and said, “for you are the son of a prostitute.” (Judg 11:2 NLT). He was “unwanted”, disqualified” and a “mistake”. He could have accepted rejection as identity and his origin as destiny, but he redefined his memory with God’s Word. Before Scripture mentions his rejection, God mentions his identity. God’s plan came before his pain. “Now Jephthah was a mighty man of valor…” (Judg 11:1).
Don’t let human rejection frustrate God’s plan for your life. Your story began before people formed opinions about you. God established your purpose before birth. The rejected son became the required deliverer (Judg 11:6). He became Israel’s deliverer and judge. His rough beginning did not cancel his calling.
Friends, let not your origin story disqualify your destiny or define you. You may be called a mistake child, unwanted or born out of wedlock, yet you are not a mistake. Human circumstances may be accidental, yet God’s creation never is. God’s call becomes louder than human labels when memory is redefined.

Prayer points
1. Father, erase every label of unwanted, rejected, or disqualified spoken over my life and heal the wounds caused by them in Jesus’ name.
2. Father, turn what was meant to disqualify me into evidence of calling; and just as Israel called back Jephthah, let destiny locate me again, in Jesus’ name.

Today’s declarations
1. People may reject or forget me, but I am chosen by God and divinely remembered; God’s call is louder than human labels.
2. The circumstances of my birth or my origin won’t define my destiny; I will not die as rejected, but I will live as fulfilled.