Genesis 29:30-32 [NLT]

“So Jacob slept with Rachel, too, and he loved her much more than Leah. He then stayed and worked for Laban the additional seven years. When the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, he enabled her to have children, but Rachel could not conceive. So Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben, for she said, “The Lord has noticed my misery, and now my husband will love me.”

‘Rejection’ = the dismissal or refusal of one’s value, presence, or efforts.

“Being praised essentially means that one is receiving judgment from another person as 'good.' And the measure of what is good or bad about that act is that person's standard [yardstick]. If receiving praise is what one is after, one will have no choice but to adapt to that person's standard [yardstick] and put the brakes on one's own freedom.” - The Courage To be Disliked

Galatians 5:1 [NIV]

“it is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.”

Galatians 1:10b [NIV]

“…If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.” 

[Mark 6:2-4 NIV]

When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were amazed. “Where did this man get these things?” they asked. “What’s this wisdom that has been given him? What are these remarkable miracles he is performing? Isn’t this the carpenter? Isn’t this Mary’s son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him. Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honour except in his own town, among his relatives and in his own home.”

 Mark 6:8-11 [NIV]

“Take nothing for the journey except a staff—no bread, no bag, no money in your belts. Wear sandals but not an extra shirt. Whenever you enter a house, stay there until you leave that town. And if any place will not welcome you or listen to you, leave that place and shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them.”

Rejection is not the end of the road; it is often God’s way of redirecting you to where He wants you to be.

Our life is not determined by whether people reject us or accept us, our life is determined by an event that took place 2000 years ago on a hill called Calvary.

Communion

Matthew 27:46 [NIV]

About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”).

(Please display the scripture below at the very end of my message. The prompt will be when I’m speaking about a vision I received in one of our services.)

2 Corinthians 4:17-18 [NIV]

For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.