References: Psalm 69:20 ; Psalm 142 ; Psalm 31 ; Psalm 55 ; Jere. 30:17 .

Problem: Rejection is not what people do to me. It is my response or reaction, my feelings of anguish, unworthiness, unlovability to what I perceive people are doing to me. The pain of rejection triggers me to 'feel' negative and from this I believe I am rejected.

Solution: The answer is to know the unconditional love of God. I am acceptable and significant and worthy in His eyes. God is my mate, I seek my identity in God, not by how people view me, treat me or whatever. My worth, my security and significance can only come from God. He is the one Who made me and destined me to be conformed to the image of His Son.

Do not look to a human being, position or power for value. God is my true identity, I am made in His image. His love makes me whole. I work accordingly being conformed to His image by obeying His commandments. When rejected or hurt, mourn the loss, turn it over to God, and go on living. God is our glory. He is the lifter of our head. Forgive all those who hurt me, be free of revenge. Pray for mercy , become and be complete in Him Who forgave all those who rejected and abandoned Him on the cross.

Gen. 1:26-28 - We are either a container and expressor of God or of our diseased attitudes and perceptions. At the fall, Man , a creature united to God , lost his identity. This identity to God is the true meaning of life, that is, to reveal God and to express His love to the world. Otherwise, man becomes disfunctional. Fallen man tries to find his identity, and the only thing he has to work with is his body, senses, and his head. He focuses now on his created self . His identity becomes his performance to another plus a rating of his performance by another (Co-dependency).

Now fallen man 'does' in order 'to be' 'for God' instead of 'being' and 'doing' 'from God'. Man was made initially accountable to God but God is gone now. Man needs another to find out who he is. Man was supposed to 'be' in his relationship to God and out of his 'being', he was 'to do'.

Luke 4:1-13 - Jesus in the wilderness, a test of the 'independent spirit'. Here is the supreme test and example in determining who and what we are, and how we are to live.

John 5:30 - Jesus identified with His Father, His will was His Father's will. Likewise, redeemed man lives by and from the Father to give glory to God by acting on His commandments regardless of and in spite of circumstances, people, things or possessions. Tests in life determine if we are dependent on God or man.

Spirit of rejection reveals one is earthbound, living horizontally, and influenced by the circumstances of life. Thus, being redeemed, one's identity is now in God and from God man is empowered by prayer, power and provisions to accomplish God's purposes on earth, to convey God's love to others, so that they, in turn, may also become identified in Christ.

Col. 2:11-13 ; Phil. 2:12-18 - Thus, the sense of rejection reveals a diseased attitude, waiting to be accepted and approved and fulfilled by thers. Put this off and put-on that you are already accepted and approved by God Who made you significant in Christ. From significance already btained via the cross, you work out your salvation, giving glory to God by being concerned for the widow and the orphan, being the salt and light, thus fulfilling God's purpose for your life. By this means the sense of rejection will gradually fade.

2 Cor. 3:16-18 -All of the veils of the fallen life have been removed in Christ. Rejection is one of the many barriers that keeps one from becoming, and moving from grace to grace to glory to glory, and allowing the Holy Spirit to complete His work in us-growing into His image.