God's Remedy for Rejection by Derek Prince

Author:Derek Prince
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3, pdf
Tags: Rejection (Psychology) - Religious Aspects - Christianity, Religious Aspects, Christian Life, Rejection (Psychology), General, Religion, Deliverance, Consolation, Christianity, Spiritual Growth
ISBN: 9780883688649
Publisher: Whitaker House
Published: 1993-01-01T22:00:00+00:00

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How to Apply the Remedy

By this point, you have allowed the Holy Spirit to insert His probe into your wound, and He has exposed the foreign body that was causing the pain and the infection. Are you now ready to accept God's remedy? If so, there are five successive steps you need to follow.

Step 1

Recognize the nature of your problem and call it by its right name—rejection. God always has to bring us to the moment of truth—even though it may seem devastating and extremely painful—before we can receive His help.

Step 2

Take Jesus as your pattern. "Because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps" (1 Peter 2:21).

How did Jesus meet rejection? For three and a half years, He had completely given His life to doing good, to forgiving sin, to delivering demon-oppressed people, to healing sickness. At the end of that period, the Roman ruler offered a choice to Jesus' own people, the Jews. He was willing to release from prison either Jesus of Nazareth or a criminal named Barabbas, who was guilty of political insurrection and murder.

By one of the most amazing and tragic decisions in all of human history, the people rejected Jesus and chose Barabbas. So the mob cried out, "Away with Jesus! Crucify Him! We don't want Him. We'll have Barabbas, the rebel and the murderer."

In response, Jesus prayed for those who had crucified Him: "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing" (Luke 23:34).

The second step, therefore, is to forgive. This is not an easy thing to do. In fact, you are incapable of doing so if you're left to yourself.

You are not left to yourself, however: As you come to this moment, the Holy Spirit is right there with you. If you will yield to Him, He will give you the supernatural grace you need.

You may say, "But the person who hurt me is dead, so why do I need to forgive him?" Whether he is dead or alive is not important. It is for your sake that you are forgiving, not for the other person.

I know a fine, young Christian man who heard this message. He realized that he had carried bitterness, resentment, anger, and rebellion against his father, who had been dead for years. He took his wife on a journey of several hundred miles to the cemetery where his father was buried. Leaving his wife in the car, this young man went alone to his father's grave. He knelt there and, for the next several hours, emptied out all his poisonous attitudes. He did not get up until he knew he had forgiven his father. When he walked out of that cemetery, he was a different person. His wife testifies today that she has a brand-new husband. His father had died, but his resentment had remained very much alive.

Parent-child relationships are especially important. Young people, in particular, need to remember this.

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