Rejection Protection

Rejection Defined: To be cast aside - thrown away as having no value.

Some facts about emotional rejection:

• We try to avoid emotional rejection more than physical pain
• Every person is attacked by rejection, starting in childhood
• More than anything the fear of rejection will keep us from moving forward and keep us from building relationships.

How do we "Protect" ourselves from rejection:

We make "Inner Vows" and we make promises to ourselves, such as:

• "Nobody will ever hurt me again"
• "I'll never get close to anyone again"
• "I'll never let anyone control me again"
• "You can't trust anyone or men or women"
• I will NEVER....................

Inner vows develop unhealthy thought system and those thots develop fears

RESULT: We spend most of our time avoiding rejection rather than building loving relationships.

SOLUTION: Forget yourself, reach out, give to others and build them up

WE CAN'T LOVE UNLESS WE ARE WILLING TO GET HURT

1 Peter 2:23 and Acts 10:38 show us the example Jesus gave to us, in doing what he knew to be right and never defending Himself or worrying what others thought.

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