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Given the petty nature of my affliction, you might feel like stoning me for being a wimp. that I had been agreeing with the enemy – in effect, telling myself yes, I’m stupid; yes, I’m a social reject He longs to mess with our heads; enticing us to feel useless, to feel hard done by and resent God and In both cases, it was Gentiles – people God’s chosen thought of as rejects – who received miracles, not Consider, for example: * Moses, the stutterer, who felt so useless he almost rejected his calling (Exodus

If someone lashes out at you, feel honored. They will almost certainly feel condemned about the outburst. Don't dare feel superior to a fallen brother or sister. Don’t feel pressured to fill the silence with chatter.   * Feel the person’s pain.  

of horror tinged with the slightest feelings of pleasure.   To God You Are Special   If you feel battered by guilt feelings, there is also a helpful series of beginning Mostly, God leads by such things as vague feelings. serve:   is wrong, or not worth serving will lose the war, or is not strong enough to protect you has rejected Strategies   Feel defeated?

If you feel you cannot forgive or that you have forgiven and that it has not helped you find peace, I The adventurer typically feels iced over by the solitude of the journey and yet the heart-warming reality Luke 6:22-23   Blessed  are you when men hate you, when they exclude you and insult you and reject your How many people have snapped at someone claiming to know how a hurting person feels? Superficial friends share superficial feelings; deep friends share their deepest feelings.

So when facing guilt feelings, the most important thing is to establish whether your guilt is real or We must clearly differentiate between deceptive feelings and spiritual reality. You have every right to feel guilty and fearful before God if: 1. The feelings might exist, and they might be most unpleasant, but they are groundless. There is no shame in a forgiven person feeling guilty. That is simply the Deceiver at work.

Someone with a phobia about spiders does not need to be lectured about trusting God and made to feel We can simply reject them as being untrue and continue to enjoy closeness with our loving Lord.   More disturbing still, anxiety feels like a nagging conscience and can easily be mistaken for a divine I feel like I am going to be rejected by Jesus because of this and I am so afraid. It has put my life on pause because I feel like I am going to be left behind and that terrifies me.

One rejection from a publisher would send me reeling. Would-be novelist John Creasey received an unbroken succession of 743 rejections. The chilly winds of rejection can ruffle our feathers or carry us to new heights. Harness rejection’s power. We begin to feel safe in our hole and imagine all sorts of horrors are poised to savage us should we

So if ever you feel damned and utterly rejected by God, take seriously Scripture’s words of hope to people If your mind is reeling as your entire view of prophecy comes crashing down, I can well understand your Perhaps you are sometimes tempted to feel as doomed to destruction as Jerusalem was in this prophecy.

In contrast, one-on-one preaching tends to weigh people down, adding to their feelings of inadequacy No matter how pure my feelings seemed, they could be ungodly. If you feel someone needs to exercise more faith and praise, try things like the following.   She remembers nothing of what was said except for one remark: “I know how you feel.”   It sends the message, “I’m not interested in hearing about your situation and feelings.

One rejection from a publisher would send me reeling. Harness rejection’s power. The manuscript was rejected. Coping with rejection and apparent failure is a serious matter. The navy rejected him too.  

You are right to reject a religion that’s a list of dos and don’ts, or a gathering of dour-faced, self-righteous Jesus would reject it too.

Forgiveness should not be confused with having no ill-feeling towards someone. We presume we have forgiven because we do not let ourselves feel anger, when deep within – so deep that Jessica Shaver discovered the transforming power of admitting to ourselves our true feelings. In telling me the anger you genuinely feel. It loses power over you, permitting you to heal.” Like feeling returning to a paralyzed limb, it might signal the end of emotional numbness.