I was riding home in a friend’s car, I zoned out and zoomed into a radio program on 93.9 fm ‘The Moth” in NYC. The whole segment was people telling inspirational stories, that no matter how tough we think we are, would move our very soul. Please click—> here and listen to listen Darryl ‘Run DMC’ McDaniels tells an amazing story of adoption, how he over came depression, sarah mclachlan’s song Angel and how everything happens for a reason. Please be patient because it takes 1 minute and 31 seconds for him to start.
Rejection.
If anyone ever say they have never gotten or felt rejected would be lying. At some point or another we have experienced rejection in some shape or form. Pastor Larry Purnell, my Facebook friend wrote a very interesting post about overcoming rejection, that I’m sharing with you guys below.
Overcoming Rejection!! Part 1
Rejection is one of those horrible byproducts that come along with dealing with people. Sometimes, it’s inevitable not to feel rejected some time or another. Some people do not possess “thick skin” to be able to completely ward off the effects of rejection. Some people suffer more intense levels of rejection for longer periods in their life than other people. After all, we are human…right? The most frequent motive for rejection is feelings of inadequacy and a fear of failure from people. The emotions that are tied to being “dropped” can be devastating to the heart and to the ego.
Rejection can reward you with isolation and loneliness. I always say, that loneliness creates an environment of self discovery. While some people dread at the thought of isolation and loneliness, others delight at the thought. This is where you are striving. You must affirm and believe that you are able to take care of your own needs well, and be content with YOURSELF! You don’t need the presence of others, to strive for the mastery of happiness. Sometimes, God allows the pushing away of people, to assure you that HE is all that you will ever need to be happy. God does allow rejection sometimes, because too much dependence on others for happiness is not healthy, which can undermine God’s instituted feelings of confidence and self respect, that is relevant to the will and purpose prescribed for your life.
When your self-image is too closely attached, to what other people estimate of you, fear of rejection becomes a threat to the wholeness of who you are. This causes stress and creates an arena of anxiety, caused by the effort of being accepted. Stop defining the core of your self and your future, by titles the world involves as successful, such as “married,” “popular,” “single,” etc. These worldly titles are false plum lines, that people busy themselves trying to become and attained, and are not, in God’s perspective, a true sense of success for identity. These false expectations can become a threat to your purpose and your abilities, and eventually suck the happiness right out of your created being.
To overcome rejection, you must allow God, through His Word, to define who you are, and to develop the true essence of your created being, in a way that is not contingent upon what others think of you. Begin to allow what God think of you, to become situated on the forefront of your thinking. Learn that you are different! You don’t think like others and others don’t think like you. Distinction is the key! Learn to comply and believe that your difference, in how you look, what you are capable of, your attitude and your beliefs of yourself, are the main ingredients that make up who you are, and that God is perfectly comfortable in who you are. And when HE is dissatisfied, he will become assertive to inform you of His desires for change. But atleast, your happiness will be in your control, and you will feel much more secure, with being YOU! Part 2…more to come!
Blessings,
Pastor Larry
Larry Purnell Ministries
Lost…
Look at what I saw today taped to a pole while I walked on the street. It is very cute but at the same time very strange. There is even a full description and a telephone number at the bottom. I wish them luck. 
Tomorrow
Love without condition and forgive as often as possible because tomorrow is never promise.
Go to now, ye that say, Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. ~James 4: 13-15~
31 to be Exact
And God said,
it was not good for man to be alone so he created you
But somewhere along the line, Someone changed your perspective and shifted your view,
Like Eve
you listen to the wrong voice, you took a huge tasty bite of deception,
Now your stomach upset coz your spirit won’t digest it,
No longer the woman who walks in the confidence of ultimate artistic design
Submit your name change we’ll call you compromise
This is what happens when the gospel is according to whomever on top of your playlist
And the media has become your bible,
Searching the inscription of magazines
To be told you are dancing lead in Satan’s recital
But you are not her- and she is not you
Cause we are called to so much more than makeup, hair, clothes and shoes and dropping it like it’s hot
Even if we are able to
We are women of a different status 31 to be exact,
We are content; we are not looking like anyone else
Because we know our differences are not a reason to be jealous- but God’s fingerprint
Don’t run around talking how they aren’t any good men,
We know if we apply half as much as effort on the inside as we do on the out,
We’ll stop drawing wrong attention
Slow to speak quick to listen,
receiving intervention from a higher dimension
Seeking purpose watching our God vision coming to fuision never forgiven
We are forgiven much, so we eat, we live, we breathe, we give, and we even sweat love,
Always ready to hear from the women, so hear from the women with sliver hair
Seeds have been sown and the wisdom saturates our soil clipping our dead ends for growth,
We’ll find us always promoting unity,
Serving our communities, using my gifts and talents as our all glory to God opportunity,
Wake up in the morning with a grind for the most high on our mind
Constantly being refined to be exact like our architects design
We have no hearts,
So where’s the answer before the question any man who wants our heart would have to go to Christ knowing it’s in his possession
Yes, we are beautiful and barefoot in the kitchen of grace,
Pregnant with purpose, vacant of praise, Jesus is who we crave
waiting to come with full terms
So that we can gather the barefoot that has been deposited, knowing quite well one day we’ll be outta this
Mercy gives a 2nd chance, so we receive and we are all too good,
We needed an intervention; Christ came to do lost provision
on the cross, he was fully extended and stretched
And we, were given an extension, hear me an extension (hear me…..)
Because this price was worth far more than any finest Indian Reme
I know we can change the thing we don’t like out of a simple cost
But Botox, lipo and implants aint got nothing that was accomplished on that cross
Cause you can’t implant yourself a new spirit, or lipo suck away your sin,
Or you can’t lap bang your addiction and you can’t Botox away your depression
We all need him, it’s time to change your status, 31 to be Exact
don’t be afraid of what it may extract or what it may attract
We are women of a different status; This world we will impact
We are women of a different status; 31 to be Exact
Unbreakable
We could fight like Ike and Tina or get back like Bill and Camille
Be rich like Oprah, and Steadman or instead struggle like Flo and James Evans
‘Cause HE! aint no different from you and SHE! aint no different from me
So WE! got to live out our dreams
Like the people on TV we gotta stay tuned ’cause there’s more to see
UNBREAKABLE!
Through the technical difficulties
UNBREAKABLE!
We might have to take a break
But ya’ll know we’ll be back next week
I’m say’n this love is unbreakable… (oooh yeaa, yeaa)
Yea, clap ya hands everybody, clap ya hands everybody
Let’s do it like this C’mon
See we could act out like Will and Jada (Will N Jada)
Or like Kimora N Russell make’n paper (oh yea)
ALL IN THE FAMILY! Like the Jacksons (Like the Jacksons)
And have enough kids to make a band like Joe and Catherine (yeeaa)
SHE! aint no different from me, and HE! aint no different from you
So WE! got to live out our dreams
Like the people on TV we gotta stay tuned ’cause there’s more to see
UNBREAKABLE!
Through the technical difficulties
UNBREAKABLE!
We Might have to take a break
But ya’ll know we’ll be back next week
I’m say’n this love is unbreakable (We liven our dreams)
We living our dreams! we liven our dreams,
We living our dreeeeaaams (oooooooh)
We living our dreams (we liven our dreams)
We living our dreams (WE’RE LIVEN OUR DREAMS! )
We’re living our dreeeeaams (WHOOAAA OOH! YEA YEA! )
His wondrous work.
Many, O Lord my God, are Your wonderful works
Which You have done;
And Your thoughts toward us
Cannot be recounted to You in order;
If I would declare and speak of them,
They are more than can be numbered.
Psalm 40:5
