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A Word for You
Rejection is one of the most deeply personal wounds a person can experience. Whether it came from a parent, a spouse, a friend, an employer, a community, or someone whose approval you longed for — the message rejection sends about your worth and your belonging cuts in ways that other pain does not.
But there is something God wants you to know before you read another word: rejection from people does not reflect God’s verdict on you. The One who made you, who knew you before you were born, who engraved your name on the palms of His hands — He has never rejected you. He never will. And the same Jesus who was despised and rejected by the world He came to save understands exactly what you are carrying right now.
These scriptures speak directly into the wound of rejection — with God’s acceptance, God’s choosing, and the truth about who you actually are.
Foundation Scripture
“When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take care of me.”
— Psalm 27:10
Even if the deepest human relationships fail — even if those who should have loved you most did not — God’s love does not fail. He takes care of the forsaken. He always has.
A Word from Dick Mills
From his written ministry to those who have experienced rejection
A Word from the Lord for the Rejected
“He came to His own, and His own received Him not.” Therefore, be assured that I, your Lord and Master, know the pain of rejection. I came to bless, and My blessings were refused. I came to minister, and My ministry was scorned. I came to show a better way, and My counsel was ignored. I came to My own, and My own did not receive Me.
But know this: in your rejection, you are finding the rare treasure of the fellowship of My sufferings. If you suffer with Me, you will reign with Me.
Inasmuch as I was rejected, do not think it strange that you are rejected also. The servant is not greater than his Lord.
I know your disappointments. I know your anguish. I know your grief. I know your questions.
But I want you to know that I have a great blessing for you. I have great treasure for you. I have a glory to reveal to you. I have a Spirit to put upon you. These blessings will more than compensate for all your anguish and all your grief. You will enter into a relationship of intimacy with Me.
Blessed are you, My child. Enter into the joy of your Lord.
God Will Never Reject You
John 6:37
“All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and whoever comes to Me I will never cast out.”
His Promise
Never cast out. Jesus makes this promise without exception or condition. Everyone who comes to Him is received — not evaluated, not placed on probation, not sent away. Never cast out. That includes you, in this moment, exactly as you are.
Hebrews 13:5
“I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
His Promise
Never. The word in the original Greek is emphatic — a double negative that leaves no room for exception. He will not leave. He will not forsake. Whatever the human rejection cost you, this cannot be taken.
Romans 8:38–39
“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
His Promise
The list is exhaustive by design. Paul wanted to make sure no category was left out — including rejection by people, rejection by institutions, rejection by those who should have loved you. Nothing in all creation separates you from this love.
Isaiah 41:10
“Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.”
His Promise
He does not stand at a distance watching your rejection. He is with you. He strengthens, helps, upholds — three active declarations from a God who refuses to leave the rejected alone.
Deuteronomy 31:8
“The Lord Himself goes before you and will be with you; He will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.”
His Promise
He goes before you into tomorrow — into the next place where you risk rejection, into the healing that is ahead. He is already there. And He will not leave you to face any of it alone.
When Others Have Rejected You
Psalm 27:10
“When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take care of me.”
His Promise
The psalmist names the deepest possible rejection — a parent’s abandonment — and places God’s care as the answer. If the relationship that was supposed to be safest failed, God steps into that place and takes care of you. He is the Father who does not leave.
Isaiah 49:15–16
“Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! See, I have engraved you on the palms of My hands.”
His Promise
God uses the most unthinkable human abandonment to make His point: even if the impossible happened and a mother forgot her nursing child — He would not forget you. You are engraved on His hands. Permanently. By name.
Psalm 34:18
“The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.”
His Promise
Rejection breaks something in a person. He draws near to that brokenness — not away from it. The crushed spirit is exactly where He shows up closest.
Zephaniah 3:17
“The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in His love He will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.”
His Promise
He rejoices over you with singing. The God of the universe takes great delight in you — not despite what others have said about your worth, but because He knows your worth better than they do. Let that truth be louder than the rejection.
Isaiah 54:10
“Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet My unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor My covenant of peace be removed,” says the Lord, who has compassion on you.
His Promise
Human love can be withdrawn. Human acceptance can be revoked. But His unfailing love cannot be shaken — not by rejection, not by failure, not by anything that has happened or will happen. His covenant of peace stands.
The God Who Sees the Rejected
Hagar had been used, dismissed, and driven away. She was alone in the desert — rejected by the household she had served, uncertain about her future, without any human advocate. And in that wilderness, something extraordinary happened.
God found her. He spoke to her. He saw her when no one else did. And she gave Him a name that has echoed through Scripture ever since:
“You are the God who sees me.”
Genesis 16:13
If you have been rejected and feel invisible — unseen, uncounted, unvalued — this is the God you have. El Roi. The God who sees. He saw Hagar in her wilderness. He sees you in yours.
The Contrast to Rejection
“You did not choose Me, but I chose you.”
— John 15:16
You Are Chosen
Ephesians 1:4–5
“He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in His sight. In love He predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ.”
His Promise
Before the world was made, He chose you. Not after you proved yourself. Not after you earned it. Before you existed — He decided you were His. That choosing cannot be undone by any human rejection.
1 Peter 2:9
“But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.”
His Promise
Chosen. Royal. Holy. Special. These are God’s words for you — not the words of the person who dismissed you, excluded you, or made you feel worthless. His vocabulary about you is the one that is true.
Colossians 3:12
“Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.”
His Promise
Chosen. Holy. Dearly loved. Three identifiers before any instruction is given. Your identity is established before your behavior is addressed. You are dearly loved — not conditionally, not provisionally. Dearly.
Romans 8:15–17
“The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by Him we cry, ‘Abba, Father.’ The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.”
His Promise
You have been adopted into God’s family — not as a servant, not as someone on the periphery, but as a child with full standing. Abba — the intimate word for Father — is the word He has given you access to. You belong.
Romans 15:7
“Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God.”
His Promise
Christ accepted you — completely, without reservation, without requiring you to clean yourself up first. His acceptance is the measure of what you have received and the model of what His people are called to extend to one another.
Your Identity Is Not Determined by Rejection
2 Corinthians 5:17
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.”
His Promise
The identity that rejection tried to assign you — unwanted, not enough, not worth keeping — is not the identity that Christ gives. In Him you are a new creation. The old definition has passed away. He writes a new one.
Psalm 139:13–16
“For You created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your works are wonderful, I know that full well.”
His Promise
You were not an accident or an afterthought. You were knit together — carefully, intentionally, with skill and purpose. Fearfully and wonderfully made. That is God’s assessment of the person the rejection said was not worth keeping.
Matthew 10:29–31
“Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father’s care. And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.”
His Promise
Your worth is not measured by who chose you or who didn’t. It is measured by the attention of the God who counts the hairs on your head. That level of care is reserved for something of extraordinary value. That is you.
Psalm 139:1–3
“O Lord, You have searched me and known me. You know when I sit and when I rise; You perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; You are familiar with all my ways.”
His Promise
He is completely familiar with you — not the version you present to the world, but the real you. He has searched you and known you. And He has not turned away from what He found.
Jeremiah 29:11
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
His Promise
Rejection says your future is diminished. God says He has plans for it — plans for good, for hope, for a future that is ahead of you and not behind. His plans are not canceled by what someone else decided about your worth.
Jesus Understands Rejection Firsthand
The comfort of this page is not simply that God accepts you — it is that the God who accepts you knows what rejection feels like from the inside. Jesus was not watching rejection from a safe distance when He entered the world. He experienced it.
He was despised and rejected by men. His own people did not receive Him. He was misunderstood, dismissed, scorned, and ultimately abandoned by those closest to Him at His most vulnerable moment. He is not a Savior who offers sympathy from a place of comfort. He offers understanding from a place of shared experience.
Isaiah 53:3
“He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces He was despised, and we held Him in low esteem.”
His Promise
Despised. Rejected. Familiar with pain. These are not distant theological concepts for Jesus — they are His biography. He brings that understanding to your rejection and meets you in it as someone who has been there.
John 1:11
“He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.”
His Promise
The deepest rejection is often from those who should have known better — those closest to you, those who had every reason to receive you. Jesus knows that rejection specifically. He was not received by His own. He understands yours.
Hebrews 4:15–16
“For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are — yet He did not sin. Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.”
His Promise
He is not unable to empathize. He can. He does. Come to His throne of grace with confidence — not hesitation, not shame, not the fear that He will send you away. Confidence. He receives those who come.
Healing from Rejection
Isaiah 61:1–3
“He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted… to comfort all who mourn… to give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.”
His Promise
Binding up the brokenhearted was part of Jesus’ stated mission. Rejection breaks hearts — and He came specifically to bind that brokenness. Beauty for ashes is His exchange. What rejection left behind, He transforms.
Joel 2:25
“I will restore to you the years that the locust has eaten.”
His Promise
Years consumed by the wound of rejection — the relationships that never formed, the confidence that was taken, the opportunities missed while you were healing — God promises to restore. He is in the business of giving back what was taken.
Psalm 147:3
“He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.”
His Promise
He heals — actively, intentionally, with the care of someone who knows where every wound is. The healing from rejection is His work, and He does not leave it unfinished.
Romans 15:13
“May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.”
His Promise
Overflowing hope — not just surviving the rejection but overflowing — is what the Holy Spirit makes available as you trust God. Hope is not the denial of what happened. It is the declaration that what happened is not the final word.
Speak These Over Yourself Today
Rejection speaks loudly. Speak God’s truth louder. These declarations are rooted in His Word — speak them as an act of faith over the wound.
I am chosen by God before the foundation of the world.
Jesus will never cast me out.
My name is engraved on the palms of His hands.
I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
God takes great delight in me and rejoices over me with singing.
Nothing can separate me from the love of God.
I am a new creation — my identity is not determined by rejection.
The God who sees me has never turned away from what He found.
God’s Game Plan — Healing from Rejection
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Bring the Wound to God — Not Just the Facts
Tell Him not just what happened but how it felt. The shame, the confusion, the question of whether you were worth receiving. He already knows — but bringing it specifically is the beginning of handing it over. He received you when you came. He receives you now. (John 6:37, Psalm 34:18)
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Replace the Rejection’s Verdict with God’s
The rejection gave you a verdict about your worth. God has given a different one — chosen, dearly loved, engraved on His hands, fearfully and wonderfully made. Every time the rejection speaks, answer it with a specific scripture. His vocabulary about you is the one that is true. (Ephesians 1:4, Isaiah 49:16, Psalm 139:14)
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Remember That Jesus Was Rejected Too
When the rejection makes you feel alone in it, return to Isaiah 53:3 and John 1:11. Jesus was despised and rejected by His own. He is not extending sympathy from a distance — He is extending understanding from shared experience. You are not the first person He has met here. (Isaiah 53:3, Hebrews 4:15–16)
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Guard Against Letting Rejection Define You
Rejection tends to become a lens. Once it wounds deeply enough, it shapes how we see every subsequent relationship — expecting to be dismissed, waiting for the other shoe to drop. Intentionally renew your mind with your identity in Christ before you allow rejection’s lens to be your default. (2 Corinthians 5:17, Romans 12:2)
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Trust God with the Restoration
He restores years. He gives beauty for ashes. He heals brokenhearted people. The wound rejection left is not beyond His ability to heal and use. Trust Him with the process — and with how long it takes. He is thorough in His restoration. (Joel 2:25, Isaiah 61:3, Psalm 147:3)
A Prayer for You
Father, I come to You carrying the weight of rejection. Someone — or more than one person — made a decision about my worth, and that decision left a wound I have been carrying. I bring it to You today, not cleaned up, not minimized, but exactly as it is.
You are the God who sees me — El Roi. You saw Hagar in her wilderness and You see me in mine. You know my disappointments, my anguish, my questions. And You say to me what You said through Dick Mills and through Your Word: I have a great blessing for you. I have great treasure for you. I will not reject what the world has rejected.
Remind me today that You chose me before the foundation of the world. That my name is engraved on the palms of Your hands. That Jesus — who was Himself despised and rejected — receives everyone who comes to Him and never casts them out. Let me come to Him today exactly as I am and receive the acceptance He has already extended.
Heal the wound. Restore what was taken. Replace the rejection’s verdict with Yours. And let the truth that I am fearfully and wonderfully made, dearly loved, and chosen — let that truth be louder than every voice that said otherwise.
In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
A Good Word for You
Rejection tells you that you are not enough — not worth receiving, not worth keeping, not worth the effort. But God’s Word tells a completely different story. Before the world was formed, He chose you. When no one else received you, He engraved your name on His hands. And the Jesus who was Himself rejected by His own came specifically to receive the ones the world had turned away.
You are not defined by who did not choose you. You are defined by the One who chose you before you existed, who sees you in your wilderness, and who will never cast out anyone who comes to Him. Come to Him today. He will not turn you away. He never has — and He never will.