Uninvited: Living Loved When You Feel Less Than, Left Out, and Lonely

by Lysa TerKeurst

Help me see these kinds of traps. Help me recognize good things offered but with my Enemy’s plans behind them. My desire for love is good. But if I pursue love in the wrong way, with the wrong person, in the wrong timing, the enemy will trap me. I confess I have allowed this to happen. I ask for forgiveness. The enemy’s plans are to steal, kill, and destroy. Give me strength to resist the traps the Enemy has set in my path today. Lord, give me a keen awareness of the Enemy’s schemes. Give me a pure desire for only Your best. Save me from the hurt and heartbreak of following after good things the wrong way.

This rejection I’m facing right now feels so deeply wounding that it’s hard to feel protected. I’m going to stand on truth rather than my feelings and proclaim that this rejection isn’t a piercing by the enemy but rather a protection by You.

They don’t need to know the details, and neither do I. If this now broken relationship was Your best, You

wouldn’t have kept me from it. And if it is Your best sometime in the future, the enemy won’t be able to keep us apart.

But for now, I have peace that there’s a purpose for this brokenness. I don’t need to control it. I’m just going to embrace it as good for today. Shield me from the enemy’s darts of doubt, discouragement, and division. Surround me with your reassurance, inspiration, and unity. Make m...