Quotes from Frank Hammond

Rejection is one of the worst, most neglected and most common wounds.

a demon cannot function in an environment that is hostile to his nature. He cannot function in an atmosphere of praise, for praise binds him (see Psalms 149); and neither can he work in an atmosphere of love, for love is contrary to the devil's nature (see John 8:42–44).

This is why the Word of God exhorts husbands to love their wives, wives to love their husbands, parents to love their children and Christians to love one another. Love defeats the devil, but rejection opens a door of opportunity for the devil to do an evil work.

How can one know when he is stabilized in love? First, he is able to pour out his love upon others without demanding reciprocation. He can love without being loved. Second, he can meet recurrences of rejection with forgiveness. He will not react wrongly by anger, resentment or self-pity. Be

The devil will try any trick to keep God's people out of spiritual warfare... he has everything to gain by it.

To serve the Lord requires personal sacrifices. If one is not willing to pay the price he should never commit himself.

Those whom we find most difficult to love are those who need our love the most. The reason others seem unlovable is usually because they have already been hurt, and they are reacting to those hurts. They are suffering in their personalities the wounds of rejection. They need others who will love them with a God kind of love. Each additional rejection intensifies the wounds of previous rejections. 1

Love is to us what sunshine and water are to a growing flower. Anyone who believes that he does not require the love of others is self-deceived.

When we do not listen to the lies that demons whisper into our ears, they will attack us with lies in the mouths of men.

God's way of training requires the constant exercise of an individual's spiritual senses so that he will train himself to discern good from evil. When a child is rightly trained, he will listen to the voice of the Spirit in times of temptation; and, when he is confronted with the allurements of the occult, his spiritual senses will have been trained "to distinguish good from evil" (Heb. 5:14).

Even pets need touching love. Dogs often quit eating, get sick and sometimes even die from a lack of love.