7/22/25 – God’s Unshakable Faithfulness

Deuteronomy 7:9 Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God

• God’s faithfulness is our foundation. We mirror Him in consistency, not convenience.

Rejection can be one of the fiercest enemies of faithfulness, especially when you’re called to stand in the gap.

Why? Because rejection strikes at the heart of identity, purpose, and endurance—the very qualities that sustain intercessors, leaders, and watchmen.

It Attacks Identity

• Standing in the gap requires confidence in your calling.
• Rejection whispers, “You’re not enough,” or “You’re not wanted.”
• Like Elijah under the broom tree (1 Kings 19), rejection can make even the faithful question their worth.

2 Peter 1:10

“Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:”

To “make your calling and election sure” means to confirm and solidify your identity and purpose in Christ through a life of obedience, spiritual growth, and perseverance.

Calling refers to God’s invitation to salvation and purpose

It’s not random or generic—it’s a personal summons to salvation and spiritual purpose.

Romans 8:28–30 speaks of those whom God called, justified, and glorified.

28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

Your calling isn’t just about ministry tasks—it’s about being set apart and responding to the heart of God.

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Election speaks to God’s sovereign choice—His foreknowledge and grace in selecting believers for eternal life.

Peter isn’t saying we earn salvation through works. Rather, he’s urging believers to live in a way that reflects and affirms the reality of their salvation.

How Do We Make It Sure?

Peter outlines a progression of spiritual virtues in

2 Peter 1:5–7:

“Add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.”

These aren’t just moral upgrades—they’re evidence of transformation. When cultivated, they:

Guard against spiritual drift

HEBREWS 3:12-13

• 12Take care, brothers and sisters, that there not be in any one of you a wicked, unbelieving heart [which refuses to trust and rely on the Lord, a heart] that turns away from the living God. 13But continually encourage one another every day, as long as it is called “Today” [and there is an opportunity], so that none of you will be hardened [into settled rebellion] by the deceitfulness of sin [its cleverness, delusive glamour, and sophistication].

Confirm our identity in Christ

2 CORITIANS 5:17

• 17Therefore if anyone is in Christ [that is, grafted in, joined to Him by faith in Him as Savior], he is a new creature [reborn and renewed by the Holy Spirit]; the old things [the previous moral and spiritual condition] have passed away. Behold, new things have come [because spiritual awakening brings a new life]

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Why It Matters

“For if you do these things, you will never stumble.” — 2 Peter 1:10 “An entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom…” — 2 Peter 1:11

This is about living with assurance, not anxiety. It’s about walking in the Spirit so faithfully that your life becomes a testimony of divine calling.

Rejection Breeds Isolation

• Faithfulness thrives in connection—with God and others.
• Rejection tempts you to withdraw, abandon your post, and stop interceding.
• Ezekiel 22:30 “And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.” shows God searching for someone to stand in the gap—but finding no one. Rejection may have silenced the willing.

Rejection Weakens Perseverance – continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulties, failure, or opposition : the action or condition or an instance of persevering : steadfastness

• Faithfulness is long-haul obedience. Rejection makes the wait feel pointless.
• Like Moses interceding for Israel after the golden calf (Exodus 32), rejection could’ve made him walk away—but he stayed.

Rejection Distorts Discernment

• Rejection can cloud spiritual clarity, making you second-guess what God said.
• Faithfulness requires spiritual discipline and trust, even when affirmation is absent.

Rejection Challenges Love

• Galatians 5:6 says “faith works by love.” Rejection tempts bitterness, which corrodes love—and therefore, faith.

Redemptive Truth

Rejection doesn’t disqualify you—it refines you.

Jesus Himself was “despised and rejected of men” (Isaiah 53:3),  yet He stood in the ultimate gap between God and humanity.

His rejection became our redemption.