Ten Things To Remember: Abuse And Rejection In The Christian Church Part Ten

As we wrap up our series on “Abuse and Rejection from the Christian Church,” I’d like to leave you with ten things to remember. Feel free to print this list and keep it where you can see it. Where we place our focus, attention, thoughts, and behaviors will produce a great harvest for us. The truth and knowledge that the Bible teaches reminds us of these key points:

1. We can trust God’s character, intentions, and motives toward us.

2. We can trust our position and identity in Him.

3. We can stay steadfast in our focus, thinking, and core beliefs so that we can reflect Him with godly emotions, speech patterns, and life and relationship skills.

4. Through His grace, provision, and strength, we can take responsibility and move forward with godly responses through discernment and wisdom in our thinking, life a and relationship skills.

5. Our lives are safe in the hands of God.

6. People with evil intent toward us cannot injure us beyond what God will permit.

7. With God on our side, we should be fearless in our purpose, operating in truth and doing good, regardless of the threats from people.

8. We need to commit ourselves to move forward in obedience to God, even if we face difficulties and trials.

9. We must use wisdom and discernment as tools to protect ourselves against unprincipled people, even if they profess to have our good in mind as they plot our ruin. Even those who claim to warn us of enemies, are often also our enemies whose purpose is to hinder us.

10. Trust God, and boldly face the world and every obstacle assured in God’s character and intentions toward us.

Wherever we have experienced rejection, obstacles, and affliction of any kind, we should remember in the midst of conflict the truth God has presented.

 “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written: ‘For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.’ Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:35-39 NKJV

Dr. Michele

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