Break free by exposing the lies of a rejection mindset. Everyone experiences rejection in their life, but few are equipped to overthrow a rejection mindset. Meanwhile, masses of hearts are held back from experiencing the fullness of love in their relationships while being held under the limitation of spiritual slavery. Rejection is a deeply rooted mindset that seeks to steal your ability to experience love, see the power of your identity and experience fruitful relationships. It keeps your heart from experiencing a healthy and fruitful life as a loved child of God. Many people never experience the fullness that is possible because a rejection mindset held them back. Through his work as a transformational consultant, Mark has witnessed the effects of a rejection mindset first-hand. Through his own personal freedom journey and helping many to break from personal limitations, Mark will expose this sinister mindset and give you practical tools to live free. Throughout this book, you will learn to see how this root system of rejection seeks to get itself into every facet of relationships. You will be able to: - Get to the bottom of what causes most of our relationship struggles. - See why so many believers feel far from God and struggle to connect to His love. - Uncover why many of the same cycles of limitation keep occurring. - Face personal insecurities and get an identity upgrade. - Develop a healthier lens in how you approach relationships. - Break out of places where you feel stuck and get a fresh start. It's time to take back who you are and what you were made for. Expose the rejection mindset in your life and walk into your freedom.
Mark DeJesus has served as a communicator in various capacities since 1995. As a teacher, author, pastor, coach and exhorter, Mark is deeply passionate about restoring the hearts of people in the love of God and teaching them to walk in transformational living. His message involves getting to the heart of mental health struggles and the day to day battles believers face in their thoughts, emotions and relationships. Out of their own personal renewal, Mark and his wife Melissa founded Turning Hearts Ministries International, a ministry dedicated to inside out transformation. They live in Charlotte North Carolina and enjoy raising their two children, Maximus and Abigail.
✔️Struggle with people pleasing or performance based living ✔️Have unhealed rejection wounds ✔️Want to see life through eyes of opportunity and abundance, not scarcity or fear of rejection ✔️Want to be at peace with who God made you ✔️Want to understand better why people operate in hurtful ways sometimes. There’s unhealed hurt in us all.
Mark’s teachings, whether in book format or podcast, have been an incredible tool for me in many ways. The way he writes, teaches, and shares vulnerably always resonates with me, gently opening my eyes to areas in my heart that need healing. One thing that he talks about in this book that really stuck out to me is being rejected vs taking on the rejection mindset. We will be rejected in life, but we don’t have to live under its mindset.
Main takeaway: We were meant to live in freedom, in God’s love as His children. We were made to be who God created us to be. Reading this book helped me step closer to that. It is filled with truth and love in a safe way that says: you can do this, you can overcome.
This book had great insight how we allow rejection to take over areas of our lives. I took full advantage of the prayers & took the time to answer all the questions. I may not be completely free but I am on my way. I have noticed times now I will stop myself knowing I am thinking like a victim & change my thoughts to line up with God’s words. Progress is slow but happening!
I appreciate the wisdom, insight, and practical exercises Mark offers in his books. I've read several of his books and watch his YouTube videos and have experienced much healing. This book, along with his others, is invaluable for overcoming trauma and experiencing freedom.
Not just a good read but a much needed counseling session
The book gives insight into a spiritual and emotional ailment that plague so many of us in society and church today. It also provides guidance and steps to take to get us on the pathway to our healing. Very important tool.
This book fired me up to lead a life of truth, where I am free to be me! I may stumble once in a while, when the lies of insecurities pop into my head, but I can choose to overcome them and other personal limitations. It's time to walk in freedom.
This book essentially describes psychological problems in "Christianese". For example, DeJesus talks about a "spirit of rejection". Despite the Christian language, the book gets the psychology correct to my understanding. However, DeJesus is not a psychologist, therapist, or expert of any kind. This places him in a bit of an odd position in writing this book. As I understand it, he is a former pastor who now leads a ministry related to what he talks about in the book.
DeJesus makes some odd connections, such as saying a verse in the Bible is talking about bone marrow. He relates a number of psychological problems to specific physical ailments, such as abandonment to respiratory illness (as I recall). I am not aware of any evidence for these connections and no support is provided.
One of the biggest weaknesses of the book in my opinion is its length. The book is over 350 pages, and the pages significantly larger that the average book. It seems to me that DeJesus likely could have communicated the information more concisely. That said, the book does sound wordy or redundant.
The other biggest weaknesses in the book is that I feel it is short on help on improving in the problem areas described. DeJesus spends a lot of time describing each problem thoroughly. But I felt that the solutions generally amounted to "don't do it anymore". Being aware of a problem is certainly the first step in improving upon it. However any further attempt to help in the book came across as intangible words.
Overall, "Exposing the Mindset of Rejection" isn't a terrible book. I just believe there are other better books out there which cover similar ground but which are briefer, more helpful, and written by an expert in the field (psychologist/therapist).