From Author Robin Theis ~ Surrendered Identity challenges you to look at rejection in a way that you might not have seen before. The amount of people who have been rejected is staggering. Like many of you reading this, you can probably think of a painful time that you were rejected. You might even feel the pain all over again just thinking about it. Rejection leaves damage inside a person. You can't see it on the outside but God sees it on the inside. Some of the evidence of rejection are: anger, rebelliousness, relationship problems, depression, thoughts of suicide, always wondering if the people in your circle rejects or accepts you, always rejecting people before they reject you, self-pity, can't take constructive criticism or correction very well, you feel like you don't fit in, the need to be loved, blaming God, insecure, self-rejection, self-condemning, self-hate, feeling worthless and even feeling that there is no hope. They are all from being rejected. I believe we should take a closer look at rejection and the broken heart and what God says about it.
Psalm 147:3(nkjv)3 He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds..
Being rejected has been the reason many have taken their lives. Rejection can destroy a person's life in such a way that few other things can. Loving someone that does not love you back is devastating and can break a heart and crush a spirit in the Bible it says who can bear it.
Proverbs 18:14 (esv) A man's spirit will endure sickness, but a crushed spirit who can bear?
What the Lord showed me was that people get their worth and value which is their identity from the wrong place and the wrong source. When we get our identity from a person and we get rejected by that person a broken heart and crushed spirit from the rejection can lead to attempted suicides and completed suicides. God says He loves you unconditionally, He says He will never leave you nor forsake you, He says you are more than conquerors through Christ Jesus, He says you are the head and not the tail, you are above and not beneath, you are the apple of His eye, you are His Beloved, you are His child, You are a Joint-Heir with His Son Jesus Christ. I heard recently that 5000 teens commit suicide each year, just one is too many. Many teens have tried to commit suicide because of rejection in relationships. You are probably thinking of one or more teens that you know committed suicide because of failed relationships right now. I believe when you get your identity from the right place and the right source it can stop suicides and help you cope when you are rejected.
Many people have a broken heart and don't even know it. I had a broken heart as a young child taken from my home and placed in a children's home. The rejection from my childhood went into my marriage and wreaked havoc in my relationships. Jesus came to heal the brokenhearted. A doctor can not heal a broken heart. There is no pill that can heal a broken heart. Your heart may have been broken years ago but if the Lord hasn't healed it then chances are it is still broken...."Surrendered Identity" explains how to be set free from the stronghold of rejection... setting in motion healing of the broken heart.
Luke 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives And recovery of sight to the blind, To set at liberty those who are oppressed;
God wants to set you free....He sent His Son to heal our broken hearts. Surrendered Identity will not be the best written book that you've ever read. But it is powerful. It is written out of my brokenness and from my heart as the Lord led me.
Surrendered Identity is about rejection,forgiveness,healing,trust, identity,broken heart and suicide.
