Sunday Teaching: How To Overcome Rejection

 

This 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.
 It seems that almost everybody is affected by rejection to some degree. It's vital to understand how it works, and how to apply the cure.
 Why does rejection wound us so deeply? Because it attacks the very person that we are. It destroys our self-esteem, 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.
 God never wanted us to feel rejected or abandon. He desires for you to know who you really are, and realize how deeply God loves, accepts, and appreciates you, so that you can live out the fullness of what all God has ordained you to be.

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:

And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. Ephesians 3:19 

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. If we want to be all that God has created us to be, then overcoming rejection and it's affects is vital and absolutely essential.

The fruit of rejection
 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 upto evil spirits which love to take advantage of this opportunity to invade us. 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 
•  Feelings of worthlessness, insecurity, or hopelessness 
• Seeking a parent's approval is a sign that your basing your identity upon what they think of you 
• Envy, jealousy, and even hate can be rooted in rejection 
• Fear of confrontation (because your identity is based upon what they think of you) 
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