Overcoming Rejection - Part 1

Overcoming Rejection: Rejection is such a big cause of demonic bondage, and it's one of the most common things to address in being set free. I had one highly experienced deliverance minister tell me that spirits of rejection are among some of the most common demons that he has encountered throughout his ministry…. In the church!!! It seems that almost everybody is affected by rejection to some degree. Many of us never measure up to man’s expectation and then we reject God’s expectation of us, because we feel unworthy. It's vital to understand how rejection works, and how to begin to walk in our victory of the Spirit of Rejection! Why does rejection wound us so deeply? Because rejection attacks the very person that we are. It destroys our true identity, and attacks who we are and our purpose in life. This is why it is one of the most common tools the devil will use to destroy a person's life and their God-esteem (being made in His image and His likeness). God never wanted us to feel rejected or abandoned. He desires for you to know who you really are, and realize how deeply He loves, accepts, and appreciates you, so that you can live out the fullness of what all God has ordained you to be and to do. God's Word tells us that without being rooted and grounded in the love (and acceptance) of God, we cannot experience the fullness of God in our lives: Ephesians 3:19 - And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. Rejection has a way of destroying a person's life in a way that few other things can. The sad fact is that the number of people who are affected by rejection is staggering. Many of us practice some form of rejection every day without even realizing it. We reject our skin tone-race-color; we reject our eyes, nose, our facial features; we reject our hair; we reject our body features or shape; we reject our car; our home; our job; our spouse – our parents; our lives and …we even reject God, when we are not obedient to Him and His word!!If we want to be all that God has created us to be, then overcoming rejection and its affects is vital and absolutely essential. Many people who have faced rejection and abuse as a child, grow up with unresolved emotional wounds. Rejection causes emotional wounds, which if not cleansed and released, will grow and fester into spiritual wounds (such as unforgiveness, envy, blaming God, jealousy, etc.). Those spiritual wounds open us up to evil spirits which love to take advantage of any opportunity to invade our soul and our human spirit. The goal of the enemy is to get us built up with emotional baggage inside and negative feelings in our hearts against one another, ourselves, and God. Rejection has a lot of fruit which can widely vary from one person to another. Some of the common symptoms of rejection include: Rebellion in both children and adults; Fabricated personalities (being somebody you aren't, in order to be accepted); The tendency to reject others, so that you aren't the first one to be rejected; A tendency to always wonder if a person rejects or accepts you; The need to fit in or be accepted by others and be a part of everything;; Self-pity where a person feels bad for themselves being all alone Inability to be corrected or receive constructive criticism; Rejection creates an environment where you are starved for love or just don't fit in; A tendency to blame God ("Why did He give me this big nose? Why did God make me so short?"); A sense of pride that says, "How dare they reject me!"; Opinionated personality and the need to be right about things; A Sense of Entitlement; Feelings of worthlessness, insecurity, or hopelessness; Seeking a parent's or leaders approval is a sign that you’re basing your identity upon what they think of you; Envy, jealousy, bitterness and even hate can be rooted in rejection; Fear of confrontation (because your identity is based upon what they think of you); A person who has a hard time admitting they are wrong, or receiving constructive criticism has an underlying problem with rejection. How do we know that? Because they are basing their identity, who they are, upon their ability to be right about everything. Stubbornness can also be rooted in rejection as well for this same reason. They have to be right, or else they feel worthless... that's because "who they are" (their identity) is based upon them being right. This also ties in with opinionated personalities, who are always there to tell you all about something, even if they have little or no real understanding to speak from. People who are challenged with a spirit of Rejection also have performance orientation and drivenness, certain variances of OCD, etc. where a person is basing their identity and who they are upon how well they perform at something in life.( Boy, do I know a lot about that!!) Whenever we base who we are upon our performance, or our being correct about something, then we fail, it is a blow to our identity. And since there is no failure in God, then there should be no agreement with failure in ME or you!! Those who struggle with rejection can also become what we call fixers; a fixer is a person who is eager to tell everybody else how they need to be doing things, but many times have little understanding or experience in such matters, and no real follow through or experience with God in this particular area of advice themselves. Such a person attempts to be the Holy Spirit in other people's lives, where they have no authority or right to step in. They find their identity in fixing other people's problems, and they love it when people come to them for help or advice. The truth is that we were created to be loved, accepted, and appreciated. Rejection is an anti-Christ spirit because it opposes the very nature that God created in us. Rejection starves a person from love and acceptance that they were designed to receive. The problem is that when we turn to others or even ourselves for that love and acceptance, we are setting ourselves up for failure and the damage of rejection. Only God can be trusted as the source of our identity. Join me on Winning Wednesday's, every Wednesday morning at 6am, to hear these post live on the Truth Forum. 712-432-3900 854739#

It's The God In Me - The Holy Spirit!

The God In Me – the Holy Spirit! God is forever through his indwelling spirit in us, leading, guiding and prompting us for His will and purpose to be fulfilled in our Lives. In our pursuit of Him we must remember, that, we need not strain ritualistically, for all the time we are pursuing Him, the word says we must apprehend HIM who has already apprehended us! What makes us hunger after God and thirst for Him?? As the scripture states, it was God in Christ reconciling the world unto himself. So He is with us; and not only with us, but get this he ( The Holy Spirit) is ‘IN US’!! It is God now expressing Himself in us, if we would but only yield. A point of fact, I will boldly proclaim today, is that most churches do not lead followers to know God for themselves, but instead to know Him through their church experience, which if not being led by the Holy Spirit, is driven by the personality and subjectiveness of the Pastor or the influence of a voting board of trustees. The focus becomes more on the “program” and the excitement of the fellowship, while leaving believers returning home to the identical habitual routine behavior of having a form of godliness while denying the power therein. Not that the pastor is not teaching and/or preaching the Word of God, but it is OUR responsibility to live the Word and allow the Holy Spirit to transform us into the very image and likeness of ‘The God In ME’! But if, after hearing the word we forget what manner of man we ARE,… then can I tell you that if there is not a change or if the body of believers are not reflecting the love and the life style of Christ; and if there are no signs and wonders, then where is the HOLY SPIRIT?? He is not a feeling we get at church; He is not a worship experience; He is not in a shout or a dance… He is GOD! Although we live in a high tech society, we must understand that high tech can never take the place of this ‘high’ that you can only get in your pursuit of a relationship with the Holy Spirit; and we who worship Him, must worship HIM in Spirit and in Truth! But in our reality, we treat God like we treat our other relationships, and God is NOT a man… He is the creator of man. He is GOD! And we should not be like those who marvel at the wonders of Gods mighty works and continuously seek his hand, but we should marvel in His presence as we continuously seek His face. Likewise, we as Christians must not get lost by simply getting excited about the Word of God; but we must also get excited about knowing God and cultivating a relationship with Him through “long and loving spiritual intercourse! Where NOTHING distracts us or separates us from the Love of God. Where we are focused on enjoying Him and Him alone! As believer’s, we all need that intimate time with the Lord. It is when we cultivate a desire to perfect our intercourse with HIM, that we allow Him to perfect our other covenant relationships. Just as Jesus prayed,“Father, make them one, as you and I are one”. I don’t know about you, BUT I want to be Living for the Love of Him!!All that I’m giving needs to be For the Love of Him!! Wherein, when you see the Father you see me! When we see others prosper in things like “The Secret”, and others misuse the scripture “ we are little gods”, they are tapping into the soul power, where allows us to simply obey the laws in the earth realm and still have results. But when you do more than tap, but connect and allow the Holy Spirit to flow in you and then through you, you no longer have to create or manufacture results, because you automatically have the results you need in Him. It’s in Him we live, we move and we have our very existence! And when He the Holy Spirit appears (that is in your life’s circumstances and situations), He is the revealer of all. He will lead and guide you to all truths. This world will always be camouflaged and deceiving, but the TRUTH(the Holy Spirit) always lies behind the base of your reality, waiting to be a revealer of all things. If our relationship and communication with God is to be realized, we must be personally aware that it does not come through fellowship on Sunday with a body of believers, as such, but it is made known to the individual and to the body through the individuals which compose it”. If we do not comprehend the Holy Spirit’s promptings, his leadings, then we are no better than Gods’ lower creations. It is our conscious awareness and our pursuit of a relationship with the Holy Spirit that makes us unique creatures, called Sons of God. But, there is a remnant who will not be content with a contrived manufactured religious experience in exchange for true relationship. These saints want to know God and experience Him to the fullest of their capabilities. They want to taste, to touch, to handle; to hear His heart and bask in His presence; they want to know his mind and comprehend the depth, the height and the width of His Love. I will continue to pursuit HIM, who has already capture my heart and saved my life…. What about you?? For there is a Winner in ME and He is the Holy Spirit – He is God. ….. And as HE is so am I, in this world today!It is the God in Me! And even though He is unseen with the natural eye, He in ME, is the picture perfect winning image!