The God Who Sees the Overlooked Woman

📖I believe many women can relate to Michal in The Bible. Michal was the daughter of King Saul and was David’s first wife who truly loved David (1 Samuel 18:20). She believed in his calling, she admired his anointing, and she even risked her life to protect him when her father sought to kill him (1 Samuel 19:11–17).

💔Most heartbreaks begin in the home. Just as it began in Michal’s home with her father Saul. He used her love as a weapon. He gave her to David NOT out of kindness, but as a trap, hoping she’d become a snare to him (1 Samuel 18:21). She was treated not as a daughter to cherish, but as a tool in her father’s war.

📖When Saul’s rage against David grew after David fled, Saul took Michal away and gave her away to another man in marriage (1 Samuel 25:44). She had no say, no voice, no choice in the matter.

💔Years later, when David rose to power, he became ruler over Judah while Ish-bosheth (Saul’s son) ruled over the rest of Israel after King Saul died, and the wounds of Michal deepened.

📖Abner (Saul’s army commander) came to David and offered to unite the kingdom under David. David agreed BUT only on one condition, “You shall not see my face unless you bring Michal, Saul’s daughter, when you come to see me.” (2 Samuel 3:13)

💔David sent messengers demanding “Give me my wife Michal, whom I betrothed to myself for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.” (2 Samuel 3:14) So they took her from her husband Paltiel, who followed her weeping. (2 Samuel 3:16)

📖Michal’s story is definitely NOT one of a fairy-tale love. It is a story of a woman who was used, mishandled, and forgotten by the men who should have covered her. Her life reminds us that even when men fail us, God SEES us🙌🏼😭.

💔Michal was torn from a man who loved her not because anyone cared about her heart but because men in power were fighting for their own gain. Saul used her. David reclaimed her. But neither truly saw her.

📖2 Samuel 6:16 tells us that Michal stands by a window, watching David dance before the Lord, and “she despised him in her heart.”🥺 Not because she hated worship. But because she had been wounded. Overlooked. Used. Passed around like property in the hands of men who were SUPPOSED to love her.

💔Many women today carry Michal’s pain.

Pain from your father who failed to protect you.

Pain from your husband who didn’t honor your heart. You felt disposable, unworthy, or invisible.

💔You gave your love, your loyalty, your prayers  and were met with rejection, betrayal, or silence.

You’ve stood at your own window, watching others dance in joy while you grieved silently behind the glass.

❤️🩹I say this to you who can relate to Michal.

GOD SEES YOU!!! God sees the father wounds that shaped you. He sees the betrayals that broke you. He sees the silence that scarred you.

You are NOT forgotten! You are NOT invisible! You are NOT unworthy!

🙌🏼There is One Man who will NEVER use you, NEVER leave you, and NEVER forget you,  Jesus Christ😭🙌🏼!

🙌🏼He is the father that NEVER abandons!  “Though my father and mother forsake me, the Lord will receive me” (Psalm 27:10). He is the Healer of the brokenhearted (Psalm 147:3). He is The God who SEES you (Genesis 16:13). He is the FAITHFUL Husband who will NEVER betray you or misuse you, “Your Maker is your Husband; the Lord Almighty is His name” (Isaiah 54:5). 

📖He calls you chosen, beloved, and redeemed. You may have been MISHANDLED by Saul. You may have been FORGOTTEN by David. But you are FOREVER HELD by Jesus.

📖The greatest love story of your life is NOT the one that ended in heartbreak, it’s the one that began at the Cross❤️🩹.  Psalm 34:18 — “The Lord is close to the brokenhearted.

🙏🏽Heavenly Father,

I lift up every woman who will read these words every daughter who, like Michal, has been used by others, forgotten by those she loved,

and wounded by the very people who were supposed to protect her.

🩷Lord, You saw Michal’s tears when her father gave her away. You saw her heartbreak when David reclaimed her without care for her heart. And You see the tears of every woman carrying those same invisible wounds today.

🩷Father, for the one who feels discarded, remind her she is chosen. For the one who feels abandoned, wrap her in Your steadfast love. For the one who feels unworthy, speak over her that she is precious in Your sight.

🩷Where fathers failed to affirm, and men failed to cherish, step in, Lord, as the perfect Father and the faithful loving husband. Heal the ache of rejection. Break the lies of worthlessness. Restore the joy and confidence that only come from being fully known and fully loved by You.

🩷Breathe life into dry hearts, beauty into broken places, and hope into the souls who thought love passed them by. Let them feel Your nearness, hear Your whisper of belonging, and rest in the truth that You have never overlooked them.

🩷Lord Jesus, embrace them with the love that never leaves, never fails, and never forgets. In Your name, we declare healing, wholeness, and restoration over every woman reading this prayer. May she rise from the window of pain

and walk into the light of Your everlasting love. 💕 In Jesus’ mighty name, Amen.