How are we to respond to feelings of being unwanted? - Unwanted - TouchPoints

Psalm 9:9-10The Lord is a shelter for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble. Those who know your name trust in you, for you, O Lord, have never abandoned anyone who searches for you.

1 Peter 5:7Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about what happens to you.

Go to God, trusting who he is.

2 Corinthians 4:8-9We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed and broken. We are perplexed, but we don’t give up and quit. We are hunted down, but God never abandons us. We get knocked down, but we get up again and keep going.

1 Peter 4:19So if you are suffering according to God’s will, keep on doing what is right, and trust yourself to the God who made you, for he will never fail you.

Continue doing what is right.

2 Corinthians 4:8-9We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed and broken. We are perplexed, but we don’t give up and quit. We are hunted down, but God never abandons us. We get knocked down, but we get up again and keep going.

Romans 12:2Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will know what God wants you to do, and you will know how good and pleasing and perfect his will really is.

1 Peter 2:11Dear brothers and sisters, you are foreigners and aliens here. So I warn you to keep away from evil desires because they fight against your very souls.

Don’t give in to the pressures to conform.

Romans 12:5so it is with Christ’s body. We are all parts of his one body, and each of us has different work to do. And since we are all one body in Christ, we belong to each other, and each of us needs all the others.

Hebrews 10:25And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage and warn each other, especially now that the day of his coming back again is drawing near.

Receive and offer encouragement from other Christians.

1 Samuel 8:7“Do as they say,” the Lord replied, “for it is me they are rejecting, not you. They don’t want me to be their king any longer.”

Matthew 10:14If any household or town refuses to welcome you or listen to your message, shake its dust from your feet as you leave.

Mark 6:11But if any place refuses to welcome you or listen to you, shake its dust from your feet as you leave to show that you have abandoned those people to their fate.”

And if a village won’t welcome you or listen to you, shake off its dust from your feet as you leave. It is a sign that you have abandoned that village to its fate.

Luke 6:22God blesses you who are hated and excluded and mocked and cursed because you are identified with me, the Son of Man.

Luke 9:5And if a town refuses to welcome you, shake its dust from your feet as you leave to show that you have abandoned those people to their fate.”

If the people of the village won’t receive your message when you enter it, shake off its dust from your feet as you leave. It is a sign that you have abandoned that village to its fate.

Luke 10:10-11But if a town refuses to welcome you, go out into its streets and say, ‘We wipe the dust of your town from our feet as a public announcement of your doom. And don’t forget the Kingdom of God is near!’

John 15:19The world would love you if you belonged to it, but you don’t. I chose you to come out of the world, and so it hates you.

Sometimes our feelings of being unwanted are a reflection of others’ rejection of God.