Rejected by Others, Accepted by Christ

Last September, I started attending the Cleansing Stream class. A couple of weeks after the class had started, I asked our class leaders, Cyndy and Terry Bartelli, to pray for me that my beliefs would strongly convict my heart through God’s Word. While Cyndy and Terry were praying for me, Cyndy gave me a word from the Lord. The Lord told Cyndy that there was a wall around my heart. It was a fragile wall, like an eggshell, and God said that He was going to break through it. At that moment, God gave me great peace and I felt Him cover me with His love and grace. I was so anxious for the cleansing, the healing, and the breakthrough that God was going to do in my life.
   On the first night of our retreat, we dealt with different issues. The first issue we dealt with was rejection. I didn’t think that I struggled with rejection, but as the teaching went on, God revealed to me that I dealt with multiple walls of rejection. The truth is, I had rejected God, myself, others, and I feared rejection. Because of rejection, I had spirits of pride, shame, guilt, death, and condemnation. God showed me that rejection was the wall around my heart, and that night He broke down that wall. Not only did God break down the walls around my heart, He also filled me with His love, grace, and the renewal of my mind, soul, and dreams. Jesus cleansed me with His blood and set me free. God showed me His promises and delivered me from the enemy.  I am so grateful that I was able to go on this journey of entering into the Cleansing Stream. For the first time in my life, I know that I am free—and that is only the beginning.

Rebecca