What Do You Confess As Truth Part 5

This is the last in a series of what we confess as truth.  Realistically, we could write an article every week for years on this subject.  As I am exposed to people, I have come to identify an area of brokenness in many people mostly due to how they have been treated.  The first bullet point closely ties into the other bullet points I will share.  A key word attached to these bullets points is fear.  There are thousands of fears that affect our everyday life and if we would just trust in God we would be in a better place.  God says “Do not worry (fear)” Matthew 6:34.  Unfortunately, we constantly worry now and into the future.  We constantly deal with our imaginations on things that may never happen in the future.

 So, let’s get started.

• Rejection/Abandonment/Unloved - We all know the deep sting of rejection, because we are all born with an innate longing for love and acceptance.  The effects of agreeing with rejection can be physically and psychologically devastating.  Rejection that kids experience due to lack of love, lack of involvement of the parents, divorce, abandonment, and rejection from peers. Rejection that adults experience because our parents did not show their love.  Rejection that wives or husbands experience due to lack of communication and love.  Rejections from family and friends. Rejection from our places of employment for lack of recognition or gratitude.  Rejection from our church. Accepting rejection (real or imagined) disagrees with who God says we are.  It places man’s acceptance as more important than God’s and you are telling God that you don’t believe Him when He said that you are worthy. You are saying to God that you would rather believe what other people are thinking of me. Rejection and abandonment will lead us on a desperate search, striving for the love that will complete us.  This love cannot be found in people, places or things, but only in God. That is, in Christ, he chose us before the world was made so that we would be his holy people—people without blame before him. Because of his love, God had already decided to make us his own children through Jesus Christ. That was what he wanted and what pleased him, Ephesians 1:4-5 (NCV).  Believe that God loves you more than anyone can love you and He will not reject you.  Seek His love and use His love as your foundation.  Trust in man and understand that there is always a potential for rejection.

• Betrayal – The definition is to be unfaithful or disloyal.  How many times has your family, friends, and coworkers backstabbed you and it gets back to you?  It is very painful.  Most often we get offended when we should be praying for those who throw us under the bus.  Again, it comes down to whom do we trust.  Are going to trust in what man has to say?  Psalm 118:8 It is better to trust in the Lord Than to put confidence in man.  Easier said than done, eh?

• Self-Hatred – Do you know how many people do not like their selves?  Do you know how many people struggle with self-hatred, lack of self-esteem and guilt?  Are you able to look in the mirror and say I love myself?  How many of you hate to look at yourself in a picture?  How can you not love yourself if God loves you?  He is greater than you.  He, who is the greatest and holiest of all, God the Father, says he loves you.  Under what gospel do we have the audacity to say we do not love ourselves.  If we do this, we make ourselves in opposition to God.  We make ourselves a god unto ourselves.  We deny His statement of love and open ourselves up to the enemy to agree with us.  So instead of hearing God speaking to you, by His Word and by the Holy Spirit, telling you that you are loved and you are okay, you are going to hear this voice coming into your mind telling you how rotten, stupid or worthless you are.  God’s loved us so much He sent Jesus take away all the sins (including self-hatred) of the world.  God wants us to love our neighbors as we love ourselves. Matthew 22:39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’  We love ourselves because God loves us.  Self-hatred is sin and we cannot confess this as truth.

A meme is a unit of memory.  Memes will include everything we have talked about in this series and most every negative memory in your life.  Memes have been programmed in your long-term memory by our enemy and he wants us to follow his thinking all the way to the grave.  Behind spiritually rooted sicknesses and diseases are always feelings, emotions and thoughts.  The enemy is banking on you having these sinful thoughts in your mind continuously.  He wants sinful thoughts to consume you every minute of the day so your thoughts are not centered on God.  He wants to use you as a medium of expression in what you feel, think or say.  Satan wants you to confess all sin as truth.

I think we are getting a clear understanding of what we feel, think, and say can affect us greatly.  We can reverse this by doing a better job of understanding, identifying and acknowledging sin.  We do this by building a stronger relationship with God through His Word and by using the Helper (Holy Spirit) that God the Father sent to us when Jesus left to be with Our Father in Heaven.

Going forward, what are you going to confess as truth?

John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

Final thoughts:  Many will come to offend us.  God loves all his children and we must understand that we need to love those who offend us.  We have to separate the sin in them and the person God created and loves.  We can love them and hate the sin working in them.

Thank you for taking time to read what I send out.

God’s blessings to you all,

Tony Sanchez