Coming up on marriage today with Jimmy and Karen. Not one person feels rejected because of what God's done.

It's what people have done. I love people, but you just can't depend on people to love you, even good people because they have bad days.

Sometimes they go through a difficult time.

And when you live your life based on people's love, you're just to end up disappointed and scar it up.

Rejection makes you reject. I mean when you've been rejected in the past it's in

you tend to put up a wall and I remember you all was saying you're so defensive

you know every time you would say

something to me and I'm like I'm not defensive and you know and and I'm glad you're

finally to make all this and but I can remember finally just get to the point of being so miserable and just really crying out to God. Oh, We all know that we've been rejected on some level but worse still is when you

pick up a spirit of rejection and a spirit of rejection isn't just I've been rejected, a spirit of

rejection is I've been deeply wounded and this is now a point of control in my life and something

that I deal with every single day and something that's compromising my ability to function.

And so let me talk about this for just a minute.

Here are four common but unhealthy ways we react to rejection.

Is we talk about being rejected and you say well how does that affect people?

Well here's the here's the way these are not healthy ways now

but these are common ways that we deal with rejection. Number one is we avoid

the risk of rejection. I've been rejected and I don't want to be rejected again

so now I'm not going to try. I'm not going to give my heart away is I'm not going to try in relationships

I'm not going to befriend people many times when we've been hurt we just

simply say no one's ever going to hurt me again. We make an

inner vow. I'm never going to be hurt again. It's very common. I've done it before.

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