Breaking Rejection & Isolation

As You read scriptures you realize there's always testing and breaking before promotion. God uses vessels that are empty of self and filled with His Spirit. Broken vessels are humble, and they understand where their strength lies. They take no credit for their accomplishments, and all accolades are turned over to the Lord.

Think of Joseph, such a mighty calling yet the path was paved with pain, rejection, suffering, betrayal, and imprisonment even though he was innocent. He started off very proud of his dreams and God's plan for his life. So much so that it brought hatred and jealousy in the hearts of his brothers. Before the palace, power, and leadership there had to be a breaking. It's not prideful vessels God desires to use. It's not by our own merit that our calling is developed. It's a sincere heart that seeks hard after God and His will that He chooses to use. One who has fully surrendered to the molding process and is willing to do whatever His heart desires without taking any credit.

Are you going through a painful time? Do you feel rejected, isolated... like an outcast? Have there been lies spoken about you... false accusations? Have those you once trusted stabbed you in the back? 

There are so many scenarios that the Lord can use to move us from point A to point B. The important thing is, let the trial crush your flesh and chase you into the arms of Jesus, desperately studying His Word for your answers and seeking His face for your peace... You can't lose responding in this way and the enemy certainly can't win when you set your face as flint on the object of your desire...

Praise Him! This isn't a set back! It's a set up for growth and greater intimacy with Him! Where you go from here will be based on how you handle your current situation. Give it to Him, love, forgive, seek, study, worship, and trust! He's got a plan right in the midst of your pain! Get excited! This trial is leading you to your destiny! There's a new man or woman emerging and a new season on the horizon!

Isaiah 50:7 (KJV)  For the Lord God will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.

Psalm 34:18 (NLT) The Lord is close to the brokenhearted; he rescues those whose spirits are crushed.

Genesis 37:5-8 (NKJV) One night Joseph had a dream, and when he told his brothers about it, they hated him more than ever. "Listen to this dream,” he said. "We were out in the field, tying up bundles of grain. Suddenly my bundle stood up, and your bundles all gathered around and bowed low before mine!” His brothers responded, “So you think you will be our king, do you? Do you actually think you will reign over us?” And they hated him all the more because of his dreams and the way he talked about them.

Genesis 37:23-28 (NKJV) So it came to pass, when Joseph had come to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the tunic of many colors that was on him. Then they took him and cast him into a pit. And the pit was empty; there was no water in it. And they sat down to eat a meal. Then they lifted their eyes and looked, and there was a company of Ishmaelites, coming from Gilead with their camels, bearing spices, balm, and myrrh, on their way to carry them down to Egypt. So Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is there if we kill our brother and conceal his blood? Come and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother and our flesh.” And his brothers listened. Then Midianite traders passed by; so the brothers pulled Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. And they took Joseph to Egypt.

Genesis 39:19-20 (NLT) Potiphar was furious when he heard his wife’s story about how Joseph had treated her. So he took Joseph and threw him into the prison where the king’s prisoners were held, and there he remained. 

Genesis 41:41-45 (NKJV) And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “See, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.” Then Pharaoh took his signet ring off his hand and put it on Joseph’s hand; and he clothed him in garments of fine linen and put a gold chain around his neck. And he had him ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried out before him, “Bow the knee!” So he set him over all the land of Egypt. Pharaoh also said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, and without your consent no man may lift his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.” And Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphnath-Paaneah. And he gave him as a wife Asenath, the daughter of Poti-Pherah priest of On. So Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt.