Scripture: Hebrews 13 v 5-8:
"Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
6 So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
7 Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.
8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever."
Luke 4 v 18-19: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord."
Many people go through life suffering from rejection from some source or another. It can range from feeling isolated and lonely to devastating feelings of worthlessness and abandonment. Feelings that bruise your soul and leave you trembling.
It can come from parents who may have a sad history of suffering rejection themselves and find themselves unable to cope with more than the physical demands of a new baby. Their own upbringing may have been cold and without real love. I can relate to that.
I felt like that until I was 25 years old. I had always felt unloved by my parents although they were good at providing material and educational support they were incapable of showing love in an emotional or spiritual sense. At the age of 25 I found out that I was an adopted child. It was a very traumatic discovery. Thankfully just one week before I had met Jesus Christ as my Lord and Saviour and been born again.
He would have known all about me and knew I would need Him to get through the trauma. I actually was very angry with God that night and even removed from a suitcase in its cellophane wrapper, a brand new soft-covered Bible to wave in His face whilst complaining loudly about how was I supposed to find answers in such a big Book. Where do you start looking?
To my everlasting amazement the Bible fell open at Psalm 51. Think of a very thick new paperback novel falling open and staying open! An unseen hand was holding the Bible open as it rested on the palm of my hand. I had to read it and did so over and over through that long night, confessing every sin I could think of as the most incredible feeling of peace and love enfolded me. I was born again, forgiven, cleansed by the Blood of Jesus and He had moved into my heart. There was a strange verse in the midst that worried me "In sin did your mother conceive you!"
So I found out that I had been adopted and had never known my biological parents. Hence the rejection feelings that had started in the womb when my real mom decided to give me away. The family that became my parents looked after me well but they were resentful of not having their own children. It caused me to see the love other children had from their family with a good deal of envy. I felt different and remote until Jesus filled that void fifty years ago and never let me forget it.
There are other reasons for rejection as this is a demon spirit that causes this destruction of the personality. Rejection opens the door to fantasy friends who are also demons. It exchanges real love for lust, and together with a spirit of bitterness is the reason for nearly all drug addiction and abuse of alcohol.
This often leads to physical, mental, emotional and sexual abuse in a vicious spiral of out of control behaviour. I was no stranger to abuse and only by the grace of my loving Father in Heaven and Jesus Christ did I turn my life around to become able to help others in need.
I can enter into the pain and hurt that caused my brokenness to help people who are heartbroken and bruised by those who are also bound by fears and rejection. These demons drive people to dementia, drugs, alcohol, suicide, bizarre attempts to be noticed, insanity and schizophrenia aka Bipolar Syndrome.
A good example is Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex. His label of the spare as in the 'heir and the spare' together with the loss of his Mother at a vulnerable age, created envy and deep feelings of rejection. He is making bizarre attempts to be back in the royal fold. Everything he does makes the gap wider and brings ridicule upon himself. The feelings of rejection push people away. Especially the Royal Family trying to maintain their dignity amidst their own life problems.
It's a never-ending cycle of hurt for anyone going through this. Prince Harry must try to get attention on the public forum. Try to impose a variety of guilt trips on his family. It only serves to isolate him from them more and more. Rejection upon rejection causes mental and emotional dysfunction. Only Jesus knows exactly how to deal with it. The Prince has chosen yoga and meditation to deal with it. Wrong kingdom entirely. Buddhism or Hinduism takes you further away from the power of Almighty God to heal and set free.
By learning to forgive those who abused you and being released from the clutches of demons who want to kill, maim or destroy you (John 10v10) Jesus can set you free as He did for me. We are dealing with His enemy. Jesus has defeated him at the Cross to enable us to work with Him to overcome the damage his demons have inflicted upon us before we were born.
To overcome rejection we need to kill its roots. Think of a big tree with deep roots. The tree of Rejection can have roots going back generations. Just pruning the crushing pain and memories of hurts brings a bigger crop. The roots must die for the crop to fail. The roots are Rejection, Self Rejection, Ancestral Inheritance and Bitterness.
Everything hinges on our ability to forgive which is only truly enabled by Jesus in our hearts. He reconciled us to Our Father in Heaven by obtaining forgiveness for us on the Cross. In Mark 11 Jesus says unless you forgive those who have hurt you God will not forgive you. So make a list of every person and the hurt. The only person suffering this pain is you. So take the bull by the horns and give the enemy a bad day. Forgive from the heart all forms of rejection.
In Matthew 18 v 34 - 35: "And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him.
35 So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses."
These words of Jesus should enlighten you as to what happens if we do not forgive and forget. Don't just bury that pain to be dug up later. Kill it stone dead and uproot it to be thrown into the fire. It's the path to liberty, love and acceptance. You have a free will to walk in that freedom now. I did. I recommend it.
Ask Jesus to cleanse every hurtful memory out of your mind by His Blood. Ask Him to fill your heart with love. Ask Him to come into your heart and be born again. Give it time to permeate your entire being and life. Change your attitude and apologise to those you have hurt too. Be reconciled to your family. (Send this info to Prince Harry.)
Jesus came to heal the brokenhearted and set at liberty them that are bruised. He does not want us to be in pain. He came to give us the abundance of peace, love, joy and a good life.
Prayer: Heavenly Father thank You for delivering me from the nightmare of rejection. I pray that everyone who is going through this trauma will heed the words of this blog and be delivered of deep pain. Jesus please kill the roots and uproot the whole tree. Please bring peace, love and joy into their lives like You did for me. In Jesus' name. Amen.