A Prayer to Fight Feelings of Rejection by Victoria Realano, read by Liam Arden.

Be alert and of sober mind.

Your enemy, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.

First Peter 5-8.

I know what it feels like to feel forgotten.

As a child, I wondered if I would ever be chosen first for a game of kickball.

Or be the one who someone would call their best friend.

I wanted to be liked by the cool boy at school.

I wanted to be accepted by certain family members.

All of these longings kept me in a cycle of rejection.

I found myself fighting for attention only to be rejected again and again.

This continued even into adulthood, through church hurts and severed trust in relationships,

it all kept me wondering how anyone could ever truly love me or care for me.

I wanted to accept that God loved me unconditionally, but I struggled to embrace this truth.

How could a holy, perfect, creative, all-knowing God love me?

It took years of searching His Word, prayer, and believing His words ever made a finely

break free of the crippling reality of not being enough.

I have a feeling that I am not alone.

Perhaps you may relate to this, and you've experienced maybe the pain of infidelity.

The loss of close friendships or the internal rejection that causes us to put ourselves down.

Yet today, I want to reassure you that rejection isn't new.

In fact, it's one of the oldest tricks of the enemy.

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