Greetings,
I shared this piece with the Men’s Task Force ministry at
our church recently. We help widows and
the needy by fixing things in their house or doing lawn work around their yard. I changed the original slightly.
Rejection 1. To
refuse to accept, acknowledge, use, believe.
2. To throw out as useless or worthless; discard. 3. Failure to
accept. 4. Something rejected as
imperfect, unsatisfactory, or useless.
All of us
have been rejected, but one significant thing that stands out and that is
rejection because of offenses, lack of acceptance, and lack of self-worth
resulting in an unloving spirit. Almost always, you will have
bitterness/un-forgiveness, envy, jealousy, fear, and especially anger associate
with rejection. Anger because one cannot
understand why people or people they love don’t love them.
Rejection
is a form of unbelief. It is as
dangerous as unbelief itself. It is as
dangerous as faithlessness. Rejection is
a form of unbelief because Rejection says that you are not accepted of God,
and in order to be accepted of God you have to be accepted of men first. Its sets man as your god by declaring that
who you are and who you are not rests on a human who accepts your or does not
accept you. This goes against what the
Bible says in Psalms 118:8 It is better
to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man. What will your choice be? Easy choice, but very hard to apply.
There are
no other beings greater than God. They
don’t exist, although man has created many gods. If you make man your god and whether someone
accepts your or not as the basis of your righteousness and your acceptance by
God, then you are in idolatry, self-idolatry, and idolatry of men (Exodus 20:5 NLT You must not bow down to
them or worship them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God who will not
tolerate your affection for any other gods. I lay the sins of the parents upon
their children; the entire family is affected—even children in the third and
fourth generations of those who reject me).
You are
not from man. You may say you are
because you had a mother and father. In Psalm 139, David said you come from
God. He said that before you became a
fetus within the womb, even before you were ever conceived, God knew your
parts. God knew who you would be long before
you or your parents were conceived, before your grandparents were conceived,
and before Adam and Eve were conceived.
He knew you from the foundation of the world, and you were neither an
accident nor a mistake. You are known of
God and accepted of God through Jesus Christ and you must accept that. You have to accept that you are not an
accident because if you say you are an accident, then you make God a liar.
Rejection
is an evil spirt. It is not an emotion,
it is not a concept, it is not a philosophy, and it is not an ideology. Rejection is a living being – an invisible,
disembodied entity. Its name is
Rejection and it manifests by its nature wanting to become part of your nature
so the two of you can be one together and ultimately seeks to control you and
destroy you. Rejection needs you and
wants you to believe that you are not worthy of being loved by self, mother,
father, sister, brother, husband, wife, children, friends, boss, company, church, country, and
even God. Rejection wants you to think
that nobody cares.
The
foundation for freedom is defeating Rejection along with the tag along spirits
of Bitterness, Un-forgiveness, Envy, Jealousy, Fear, and Anger. Your battle is in relationship with God,
yourself, and others that has to be resolved before healing can come. You must
first resolve your relationship with God.
You must accept yourself as who you are and as God has accepted
you. You must make peace with those who
have offended you and rejected you. If
you don’t, you will remain in captivity because of Rejection and Rejection will
hinder the other areas of your life that you want to be delivered and healed
from.
Rejection
will not allow you to have the rest that God promises you in Matthew 11:28-30 Come to Me, all you
who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take
My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you
will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is
light.”
Everyone
suffers from with different levels of rejection in their lives and trusting God
with what he has to say about you, not man, is the only way we can overcome
Rejection. Psalm 9:10 And those who know Your name will put their trust in You;
For You, Lord, have not forsaken those who seek You. God will not reject you because He loves
you.
May you
receive God’s perfect love (1 John 4:18),
Tony
Sanchez 9-28-16
