Part 2 in 'Take Your Seat' - Forbid Rejection & Forbid Inferiority 2/18/09 Pastor Nora We allow the spirit of rejection to come upon us. We expect to be rejected and then it happens because we put it out there. David had to learn how to deal with rejection in Ziklag the place of overwhelming despair. He encouraged himself. The Greater One live inside of me. Don?t let discouragement take your dream away from you. King Saul ?hid among the stuff?. He was taller than anyone else and he had a complex about it. Rejection is like a hub with spokes coming off of it. Rejection puts out jealousy anger criticalness etc. You are clean through the Word. We all have to deal with it. How we deal with it is the issue. Naomi left the ?place of bread? to live in ?the place of ease?. When her husband and sons died she became bitter. Naomi=sweet Mara=bitter Reject=disapprove refuse exclude shut out junk scraps Ephesians 1:6 To the praise of the glory of his grace wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. ? You and I are accepted because of His grace and favor. Romans 12:2 KJV be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind Romans 12: 1 & 2 MSG So here's what I want you to do God helping you: Take your everyday ordinary life?your sleeping eating going-to-work and walking-around life?and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you always dragging you down to its level of immaturity God brings the best out of you develops well-formed maturity in you. ? Don?t compare yourself to others. Be who God created you to be! Deuteronomy 1:6-7 The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb saying Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount: Turn you and take your journey and go to the mount of the Amorites and unto all the places nigh thereunto in the plain in the hills and in the vale and in the south and by the sea side to the land of the Canaanites and unto Lebanon unto the great river the river Euphrates. ? Stop going in circles. Turn and take what?s yours. ? You have a call on your life. Stop letting people and demons dictate how you live it. God still values you with all of your faults and failures. Judges 6:12-15 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him and said unto him The LORD is with thee thou mighty man of valour. And Gideon said unto him Oh my Lord if the LORD be with us why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of saying Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites. And the LORD looked upon him and said Go in this thy might and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee? And he said unto him Oh my Lord wherewith shall I save Israel? behold my family is poor in Manasseh and I am the least in my father's house. ? Gideon=muscle man=Holy Spirit and Word of God. ? Don?t see yourself as the least or poor. See yourself as God sees you. ? Gideon was clothed by the Holy Spirit from head to toe.