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When you’re afraid of rejection, if people don’t agree with you, you feel rejected by
them. So when Dave and I were trying to have a conversation, if he didn’t agree with
me, I felt that he was rejecting me.

The truth is when Dave had a different opinion, he wasn’t rejecting me; he was reject-
ing my opinion. And I had to learn to separate who I am from my opinion and trust that
whether or not he liked my opinion, he still loved me!

It was a major breakthrough for me to get this revelation. Through this situation I learned
how to be a person who is loved and valued by God, because of what Jesus has done
for me, and to separate my “who” from my “do.” It took some time and I had to be
determined to trust God’s Word, which says He loves me unconditionally and nothing
can separate me from His love, but eventually, I became secure in knowing who I am
in Christ.

I want to ask you again: Are you emotionally healthy? Are you dealing with a root of
rejection in your life? Is there a person in your life that you can’t talk to without getting
upset or losing your temper? When someone disagrees with you does it make you feel
insulted, stupid, rejected, or disrespected? If this is you, then you need to know that God
doesn’t want you to live this way.

In Ephesians 3, the apostle Paul prayed for the Ephesians: “That Christ may dwell in your
hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may
have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and
high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—
that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God” (vv. 17-19, NIV).

This is my prayer for you—that you would be planted deep in the knowledge that God
loves you unconditionally and know that, while He may not always love

everything you do, He always loves you! I also want to encourage you to spend time
every day alone with God in prayer and study the Word. Dig in to scriptures about the
love of God and choose to trust that every one of those promises is for you.

The truth is: You are loved and you are valuable to God!.

Joyce Meyer is a New York Times bestselling author
and founder of Joyce Meyer Ministries, Inc. She has au-
thored more than 100 books, including Battlefield of
the Mind and Overload: How to Unplug, Unwind and
Unleash Yourself from the Pressure of Stress (Hachet-
te). She hosts the Enjoying Everyday Life programme,
which airs on FaithAfrica (DSTV341) weekdays at 09:00
& 21:00.

For more information visit www.joycemeyer.org.