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14 Oct 2024 08:50

From Rejection to Acceptance (Part 2)

Nevertheless, the wound is there—deeper than the mind, deeper than reason, deeper than the memory. It is in the spirit.
Rejection, very frequently, is in that deep area in the spirit. And often, because it’s so deep, people do not even realize their problem is rejection.
How Rejection Begins
Let’s consider some examples of how rejection may arise, bearing in mind that there are many forms of rejection.
I remember the case of one lady in particular who lived in Florida. While I was visiting one evening in this lady’s home, I did something I rarely do. I just said point blank to her, “Sister, if I’m correct, you have the spirit of death in you.” I rarely make that kind of statement because it can lead to complications. But I took the risk of telling her because it was obvious she was in need of help. This woman had every reason to be happy, but was never happy. She had a good husband and children, but never had any joy. So I said to her, “I’m conducting a deliverance service on Friday night, and if you’ll come, I’ll pray for you.”
On the appointed night, this lady came, and when I began the deliverance part of the service she was sitting in the front row. Again, I did something I don’t usually do. At a certain point in the service I walked up to her, and I said, “You spirit of death, in the name of Jesus, I command you to answer me. When did you enter this woman?”
Then the spirit, not the woman, answered very clearly,“ Oh, when she was two years old.”
“How did you get in?” I asked.
It said, “Oh, she felt rejected. She felt unwanted. She felt lonely.”
I thought to myself: Isn’t that something? The presence of rejection even at the age of two.
This incident really opened my understanding to an area of people’s problems because I discovered that rejection can begin even before a child is born. I could give you the names of quite well-known persons who would testify to this being true in their lives. If a woman carries in her womb a child whose coming she resents, that child is frequently born with a spirit of rejection.
Vulnerable Targets
For instance, this type of rejection is especially prevalent among people in one certain age group in the United States—children conceived during the Great Depression. Why? Because many families already had too many mouths to feed, and the thought of another little life coming into the world produced a feeling of bitterness. “Why do we have to have another child?”
A similar problem may develop in a child conceived out of marriage. In most cases of that type there are tremendous problems involved for the mother, and she may come to resent and even hate this child who is coming into her life and creating problems for her. That child, too, may be born with a spirit of rejection.
Then again, a child may be born and not receive love and thus suffer rejection. I believe every child is born into the world looking for the love of a father and mother. Every child is created that way. But in many cases, particularly in modern America, every child is not loved. Or, even if the child is loved, the parents may not know how to express their love. A number of people have told me, “I suppose my father loved me, but he never knew how to show it. All his life he never took me on his knee or did anything to show me that he loved me.” The same may be true of the mother. Asa result, the child gets this feeling of being unwanted.
Rejection may also come later in life. Like the woman we read about in Isaiah, a wife may love her husband and have a picture in her mind of what married life should be. She imagines how her husband is going to love her, and how she’ll be blessed with children. But somehow it turns out otherwise. Maybe the husband loves her for a little while, but then gets interested in another woman. Or he may be one of those men who just doesn’t know how to show love. After a while this young woman feels, “My husband doesn’t want me. He doesn’t care for me. He doesn’t devote time to me.”

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