Scripture: Hebrews 13 v 5-8; Luke 4 v 18-19; Psalm 51.
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.
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 and 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.
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 and help people who are heartbroken and bruised by those who are
also bound by fears and rejection. These demons drive people to dementia,
suicide, insanity and schizophrenia aka Bipolar Syndrome.
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. Look at the diagram of
the tree of Rejection attached and look at the fruit growing on it. Prune that
fruit and you will only get a bigger crop of the same. Just gets worse and
worse. You must kill the roots and the whole horrible tree will die. Not all at
once of course. Jesus will deal with each person carefully and kindly. Work
through it with Him and it will change your life forever.
Compare it with the tree of Bitterness (further down on
the blog) as there may be links to bitterness in your life and let Jesus help
you turn your life around. Get free of addictions and aggressive behaviour. Get
free of feelings of hopelessness and despair. Jesus truly loves you. He made
you perfect and wants to restore you back to His original masterpiece. The
awful devil painted over it obscenely and that defaced masterpiece must be
carefully cleansed and restored by the Master Creator Jesus Christ.
Prayer: Heavenly Father thank You for delivering me from
the nightmare of rejection. I pray that everyone who is going through this trauma
will put their hand on the diagram of the attached Tree of Rejection and ask
you to 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.
