The Spirit of Rejection/Abandonment

Recorded Wednesday 6-14-17
The Spirit of Rejection and Abandonment have been reeking havoc over the lives of GODs people for long enough! Pastor Chip helps you identify whether this spirit is actively trying to oppress you and then shows, by the finished work of the cross, how you can take authority over it evict this spirit from your life.

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  • @lilwinged5291
    @lilwinged52912 жыл бұрын

    I puppy loved a boy named Billy in 1st grade and I'd chase him, I chased him into 4th grade, kept riding my bike by his house. He hated me and I thought I could change that. I'd come to chase people my whole life for love. Now my prayers are , that I love without needing it back , that I love and care for people, even if it's never returned. Only God can enable me to do so 🙏

  • @jodyann77

    @jodyann77

    Жыл бұрын

    Beautiful ❤

  • @clairlovely128

    @clairlovely128

    Ай бұрын

    That’s beautiful

  • @Liv3lov3laug3
    @Liv3lov3laug34 жыл бұрын

    It hurts less to isolate myself and call myself a 'lone wolf' than getting my hopes up, investing, then being rejected or abandoned. The result is the same - terrifying -being cut off from everyone (like Jesus was on the cross), but it hurts more when the world says "I wouldn't want you anyway". The cost of interacting with people was never worth it for me. I only do it because God wants me to be in the world and to shine His light before men, do good works etc. I see no other reason to do it than duty and obedience. Maybe I should do it in small doses so I don't feel like I want to die. I don't think God wants that.

  • @sarahpiaggio2693

    @sarahpiaggio2693

    4 жыл бұрын

    Anna, there's a place for obedience and hard work, and you will be blessed for it. But your Father wants more for you. Once you know in the deepest part of your soul that you're loved infinitely by the only One whose opinion matters, rejection from people won't matter anymore. So the bigger the sense of rejection you feel, the bigger you know His love for you must be.

  • @kasspriscilla5183

    @kasspriscilla5183

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes rejection and abandonment is a very bad thing to go through specially if you had it done in your family multiple times or from others it gets you to believe that you're not wanted love or accepted and it makes your self-esteem down and then you feel that you're not worth anything and then you tend to isolate and then you feel like you're going to go into the spare that's what these demons do they work through other people if it makes you feel this way but in reality we have to look at it differently it's not our fault when people reject us it's not something that we're doing bad to them my whole life I always thought there was something wrong with me when this happened to me many times and it really did affect me and yes isolation and having walls up has to do with protecting yourself from being hurt if you were abused or had lots of traumas you're afraid to socially get to know people for the fear of having that happen again and a lot of people that been abused tend to isolate and do that or have a lot of trauma I want to let you know where we all been through this and I want to let you know you are not alone

  • @abcd0193

    @abcd0193

    3 жыл бұрын

    You know, it is the same with me. I don’t bother to even think about trying to start something with someone, because all of the time I have been rejected so there is no point of getting my hopes up high because I know that in the end, I will just be hurt.

  • @sanjanadias3105

    @sanjanadias3105

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes I did live like this , but its in advance I think of them leaving me , and then I used to sabotage the relationship and I used to leave first... He said exactly this ... So I guess I used to have a spirit of abandonment

  • @aliciabaldwin4800

    @aliciabaldwin4800

    5 ай бұрын

    If you ever feel like that again just know that there's somebody right here that loves you ..

  • @nancyrakount2
    @nancyrakount24 жыл бұрын

    By far this is the best sermon that I have come across that deals with rejection/abandonment. I am so grateful for Gods deliverance.

  • @loves2k203

    @loves2k203

    4 жыл бұрын

    Pls pray i have problems with that

  • @JULALAINE
    @JULALAINE3 жыл бұрын

    Friends but no real relationship, deep meaningful relationship and connection. Once we find who we really are, friends like us will come and that is a real relationship.

  • @writeousrhema
    @writeousrhema2 жыл бұрын

    Whew! If I was the only one Jesus still would have come!

  • @Universal035
    @Universal0353 жыл бұрын

    In need of prayer asking God, Jesus Christ & The Holy Spirit to please destroy this curse that's been in my life filled with rejection from people everywhere, it's the story of my life. I don't know if my prayers have been blocked by curses either.

  • @rachelmejia753
    @rachelmejia7534 жыл бұрын

    Amen, what a wonderful breakdown of rejection and abandonment. I’m in the process of studying rejection, but I never thought of rejection as a thief. I realize that people pleasing is just a way try to hold onto someone but it really pushes people away and makes you lose (or steals) your identity. I didn’t quite realize how unloved I felt until he said it and I started crying my eyes out. It’s weird that I wasn’t abandoned and still fear someone abandoning me if I don’t please them. But God didn’t put me here to please people, he put me here to love them. I’m still working on what exactly that means, bc I thought pleasing people was showing love, but sometimes we have to dis please others in order to love them by telling them the truth. I want to get this info out of my head and into my heart.

  • @JULALAINE

    @JULALAINE

    3 жыл бұрын

    This is sooo amazing. Pleasing people is not the same as loving them. People pleaser is identified by what other says and usually we lost who we really are in the process. Knowing ourselves more than letting other people project to us their version of who they think we are is victorious. Expressing who we really are sometimes pissed off people and that is normal, most if they don't know who they really are. Being comfortable conforming to others sometimes lost our identity because they want us to be like them and that to God is a no no, He created us uniquely different from each other and we have to respect those differences. I am not a copy of anyone else so I don't have to be like them, but that doesn't mean we don't appreciate them. God created originals not a copycat.

  • @countrichardvoncoudenhovek8855
    @countrichardvoncoudenhovek88553 жыл бұрын

    This was sent to me by a friend of mine called Susan... Please say a prayer for her in appreciation of our friendship. Wonderful words that have helped me apply this to my life starting today

  • @jodyann77
    @jodyann77 Жыл бұрын

    I absolutely could watch this guy all day long and this is the first time I've ever watched him! He hits so many wounds in my life that I could have swore he was talking to me! And as far as his ex-wife divorcing him because he was going to be a pastor, I cried so hard when he said that. I definitely felt something at the end when I prayed that prayer for sure I feel lighter and more blessed than I ever have before in my life! Thank you Chip for this amazing sermon ❤

  • @Jgordo1986
    @Jgordo19863 жыл бұрын

    Praise you Jesus Lord for setting me free and giving me your power Lord. Praise you Jesus for your blessings and using this preacher to minister to me about the root cause of my pain I didn't know I had. I thought it was depression, I thought I was a loser. I now know the truth and it has set me free. Woe to these evil lying spirits. I am a soldier for Christ now.

  • @rachelsanders2314

    @rachelsanders2314

    2 жыл бұрын

    💯…bless you brother! 🙏🏽

  • @allinspiriation6140
    @allinspiriation61406 жыл бұрын

    Amen! I have fought with the spirit of rejection for as long as i could remember. Now am a pastor of a church and still seen that i battle with it. Rejection and abandonment have almost costed me my whole ministry but listening to this message has blessed me tremendously. I could go on and on about th great things that you said but i know that my change has come. GOD BLESS YOU PASTOR CHIP AND NEW COVENANT CHURCH

  • @elizabethcreated9263

    @elizabethcreated9263

    5 жыл бұрын

    All Inspiriation amem to that. How are you, making progress? Believing so as I am myself also. Check this out too. Full Stature Ministries or www.forgive123.org

  • @adambutts2608

    @adambutts2608

    5 жыл бұрын

    I needed this

  • @barbaranaylor2595

    @barbaranaylor2595

    4 жыл бұрын

    Jesus loves you from the bottom of His heart 💔❤️❤️

  • @kasspriscilla5183
    @kasspriscilla51833 жыл бұрын

    Or it's being locked out of the house when you're 8 years old and nobody's home and you're freaking out and crying and you're thinking that you've been abandoned and that you're not wanted and that's what happened to me but luckily in that someone in the neighborhood took care of me and I'm finally my mom and dad came back but they were late and they thought they could get back in time but they didn't this was not only neglect this was a form of rejection and abandonment and it's very traumatic for a little girl to go through at the age of 8 years old and believe me it wasn't the first time so if anybody has been rejected or neglected this way it is very traumatic and then you can see why Spirit of Rejection would get in there I'm so thankful for this video

  • @Healthnut1976
    @Healthnut19766 ай бұрын

    Thank you I needed this.

  • @robertabrown4123
    @robertabrown41234 жыл бұрын

    I'm so tired of people blaming those that have been rejected and abandoned on that person...that's like blaming the raped for being raped. There are evil people being used to do evil. It would have been nice to hear a sermon on behavior disorders , sin, that people commit towards others and what God says about that.

  • @shmeikahall4809

    @shmeikahall4809

    3 жыл бұрын

    I can understand why you would feel like that, however, from the angle of healing, how would learning about the behavior of “offenders” be beneficial?

  • @bpavilion8994
    @bpavilion89942 жыл бұрын

    You know what is one of the worst places/situations to be in when you are struggling with this? Job interviews, omg I HATE them so much. You struggling with this and on top of that you have to sit there and have someone judge you. I hate it. It has gotten better, but back in the day I would get physically ill and shake.

  • @DreStewart-py3zc
    @DreStewart-py3zcАй бұрын

    Amen. I was crying. ❤

  • @aliciabaldwin4800
    @aliciabaldwin48005 ай бұрын

    Spirit of rejection can twist your perception.. that hit hard

  • @barbaranaylor2595
    @barbaranaylor25954 жыл бұрын

    I only just been told by a Prophet reasonable that I needed Deliverance from the spirit of Rejection. I really got stuck into prayer and of course are watching your video. Which is amazing, really. After three days of speaking the prayer I felt myself lighter already. Yes rejecting other people before they could reject you.Yes I've done that many times before. But Jesus I love Him from the bottom of my 💓. And I do believe He loves me from the bottom of His heart and never forsake Him because He realised how much He was rejected by people. Oh I have learnt so much since I was told I was suffering from a spirit of Rejection 🙏🙏🙏🙏

  • @creativechristiancontent

    @creativechristiancontent

    Жыл бұрын

    Hi how are you now did you overcome it if so how did you do it?

  • @TheLordsPowerhouse
    @TheLordsPowerhouse2 жыл бұрын

    Lord help me! Heal me from rejection and abandonment?

  • @bisongarrey3875
    @bisongarrey38753 жыл бұрын

    Thank Sir for this great and remarkable message to kick out the spirit of abandonment and rejection.

  • @mischametuariki6671
    @mischametuariki66713 жыл бұрын

    Wooooooooooow been crying the whole time!!!!!!!!!

  • @mosim9691
    @mosim96916 жыл бұрын

    New Covenant Church & Pastor Chip: I thank you so much for uploading this video. I live in NYC & have been facing my childhood abandonment & rejection isses. Your sermon helped me to look at the "root" cause which I now see as satan's tool that made its way through my parents & other people. WHEW!

  • @DunstanW
    @DunstanW3 жыл бұрын

    I've taken so many 📝 this message 🔥🔥🔥 This in my opinion (Bro, Keith) is the kinda of discipleship the CHURCH is missing, people walking along each other ... THANK YOU, THANK YOU for THIS message...🙏🏾

  • @makebacunningham6795
    @makebacunningham67952 жыл бұрын

    I was feeling so lonely today and this popped up on my feed to watch and I am glad I did. Thank you God for loving me and dying on the cross for me. I will love again but in the meantime I will stay underneath your arms until you release me

  • @jodyann77

    @jodyann77

    Жыл бұрын

    Wow I absolutely loved what you said hear it made me cry because that's exactly how I feel! That was deep

  • @jojo94cheer
    @jojo94cheer Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for uploading this. I come into agreement with who God says I am and reject all other definitions in Jesus’ name. Hallelujah!

  • @jodyann77

    @jodyann77

    Жыл бұрын

    Amen! I come into agreement with you also

  • @thepr3tty116
    @thepr3tty1163 жыл бұрын

    1●14●2021 THIS MESSAGE SO ON POINT!!! THANK YOU JESUS I'M DELIVERED IN YOUR HOLY NAME!

  • @ericnorton4045
    @ericnorton40454 жыл бұрын

    I sure needed to hear this. Man this is what I'm dealing with

  • @JULALAINE
    @JULALAINE3 жыл бұрын

    The Spirit of abandonment (especially from parents) make us feel rejected/unloved and we try to get this from other people instead of ourselves. Even if we are surrounded of people doesn't mean we are whole inside, we have to work it with Jesus inside. Opinion from others is just another cymbal that has shallow meaning, it is not our identity but of them, most of the time.

  • @e.s.7520
    @e.s.75205 жыл бұрын

    Hallelujah!!!💃💃💃 It's evicted!!!🔥🔥🔥 Amen!🙏

  • @BluieBeth
    @BluieBeth7 ай бұрын

    I need a break from it. 💜 Thank you for this.

  • @Mjtrue2023
    @Mjtrue20233 жыл бұрын

    This is a wonderful message thanks Pastor Chip

  • @TheLordsPowerhouse
    @TheLordsPowerhouse8 ай бұрын

    I needed this, even in 2023. I have struggled with this strong hold for at least 22 years.

  • @desireemoore1429
    @desireemoore14294 жыл бұрын

    This really blessed me. Becaus some manyd sermon on rejection go on and on about if they reject you they will regret it verse the wound and hurt and the impact of rejection and getting healed. THank you for this hank you

  • @samanthaanyoti2146
    @samanthaanyoti21465 жыл бұрын

    AMEN! Thank you Pastor! so insightful and powerful in uncovering the lies and strategies of the enemy

  • @mr.goodbuddy2705
    @mr.goodbuddy27053 жыл бұрын

    One of the best blessing so far this year 2020...thank you Jesus's for your love for us.

  • @FreeindeedwithCharlie
    @FreeindeedwithCharlie Жыл бұрын

    Thank you. What a blessing this message was. 🙏

  • @corinaguillermo
    @corinaguillermo3 жыл бұрын

    Praise God for this message 🙌🏼

  • @irenelynette3845
    @irenelynette38455 жыл бұрын

    Amen, i kick it out in Jesus name

  • @heatherwhite2935
    @heatherwhite29356 жыл бұрын

    I've been watching y'all for a while. And come to find out, we inherited one of y'all's pastors. How cool is that! Whoa. I throughly enjoyed this. Thank you for letting God move through you, all the way to me. Praise God for His mercy, and convection. Bless y'all.

  • @daniellemichayla
    @daniellemichayla3 жыл бұрын

    This is SO awesome and powerful thank you so much!

  • @noragoodman9241
    @noragoodman92412 жыл бұрын

    I needed this today

  • @tammyt8306
    @tammyt83064 жыл бұрын

    Amen, thank you Pastor Chip. What a Blessed Word!!!

  • @irenerendon1915
    @irenerendon191510 ай бұрын

    Thank you Jesus 😊 I receive this message fully 🙌 amen

  • @texaspeace7108
    @texaspeace71086 жыл бұрын

    Thank you 🙏🏼

  • @Air_lobo
    @Air_lobo2 жыл бұрын

    Praise God!

  • @LA-if9rz
    @LA-if9rz4 жыл бұрын

    Love love love this Word! Thank you Pastor and God Bless

  • @seemabkhadim6214
    @seemabkhadim62143 жыл бұрын

    Ameen more blessings brother

  • @companyconfidential6624
    @companyconfidential66245 жыл бұрын

    Receive, practice, and repeat

  • @BrownBoy-xv4xr
    @BrownBoy-xv4xr3 жыл бұрын

    Amen and Amen🙌🙏

  • @connieallday2705
    @connieallday27053 жыл бұрын

    You have described me 😯

  • @sheresejames-grow1779
    @sheresejames-grow17792 жыл бұрын

    Amen!

  • @grammab1936
    @grammab19364 жыл бұрын

    When I was four, my uncle yelled at me for no reason because he had ptsd and he would always go after little girls. It scared me so bad that I started crying, but no one in my family comforted me because this happened at the family reunion and my grandpa didn't want it to look like something bad was going on. I don't know why, but my mom likes to talk about it occasionally. Actually, my Grammas cousin got up to stand up for me, but my grandpa made him sit down because he didn't want to make a scene. My uncle still wreaks havoc today, and I wish so bad something could have been done to protect my female cousins. My uncle also went after my little brother, but my dad was holding him and defended him. I had to endure that rejection and sense of abandonment alone and my parents never apologized. They never explained why they weren't there for me spiritually, even though they were there physically. My second grade teacher hated me so much that she wouldn't stand up for me against a verbally abusive girl in my class who only attacked me, and the teacher even wouldn't let me have first place rights when I won a contest in class. The rest of the class was confused, because the other person she let win with me made the same mistakes the rest of the class made. My parents always acted like I had to supress my talents and character because it wasn't fair to other kids who weren't as smart, even though they encouraged and rewarded that behavior in my siblings. I was their scapegoat child, even though my mom constantly insisted she doesn't favor one child over another, just because she knows my dad's mom did that to him and she didn't want that title attributed to her. My parents always loved to hate me, and I picked up on that and adopted a coping skill of loving to hate myself, even though they hated the physical manifestation of my coping skill. My mom would check every day after I got off school to see if I had done it in class, and I would lie sometimes because I couldn't handle her yelling at me and blaming me when I didn't know what was happening to me or why. But my parents insisted I was just trying to be a bad kid and make them look bad. But I want to overcome this tape in my head and spirit in my heart so I can really live a life abundant.

  • @1braverat1968

    @1braverat1968

    3 жыл бұрын

    you are valuable

  • @AntonioHernandez-ot5bo

    @AntonioHernandez-ot5bo

    3 жыл бұрын

    💔😭🗣❤🤍💙😀🗣@@1braverat1968 .

  • @karlyost3572

    @karlyost3572

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes my sister seems like you went through a lot but I believe all that time the Lord's been with you and watching over you wouldn't let Satan go too far wouldn't let him destroy you because he had a plan for you and he knew he was going to deliver you knew that you would receive him as Lord and savior knew that you would walk and forgiveness towards your family your uncle aunts and all them your teachers all those who harm you or betrayed you or said nasty things to you but yet our love and heavenly Father knew he would deliver you and take all the pain and hurt away when you forgave them so that he may forgive you from all your sin so that you can love much cuz to whom much was forgiven love is much so I pray now in the name of Jesus Satan the Lord rebuke you take your hands off of this girl this person right now in name of Jesus father touch her begin to work a miracle and her heart and life begin to show her what your will is for her what you want her to do so that others will be redeemed others will overcome their pain and their hurt that she may have and be an example to show them how you were merciful and how you could deliver them also for such a time is this I buy any spirit that tries to harm the or antagonize the or puts doubt or fear or unbelief there I bind you Satan in the name of Jesus father touch this person right now begin to work in her life and begin to show her what your will is and will thank you for it Lord God we ask it all in Jesus name hallelujah hallelujah looking to hear a good report amen,

  • @karlyost3572

    @karlyost3572

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes Jesus paid it All all to him we owe he washed my sins and made it clean as snow whiter than snow whiter than snow he washed me and made me whole he touched me oh he touched me and oh the joy that floods my soul oh our Redeemer lives because he lives we can live love you in Christ Jesus my friend in Jesus name,

  • @empressona
    @empressona3 жыл бұрын

    What a great word Pastor. Thank you for this! God Bless you and your ministry.

  • @franktirado7931
    @franktirado79312 жыл бұрын

    Amen

  • @aliciabaldwin4800
    @aliciabaldwin48005 ай бұрын

    If you feel like no one loves you. I do

  • @blessedlady7557
    @blessedlady75572 жыл бұрын

    🙌🏽🙏🏽

  • @bibletrivia4445
    @bibletrivia4445Ай бұрын

    ❤ 6:22 ❤

  • @bibletrivia4445

    @bibletrivia4445

    Ай бұрын

    11:00

  • @bibletrivia4445

    @bibletrivia4445

    Ай бұрын

    30:20 You find yourself

  • @pumpaw7719
    @pumpaw7719 Жыл бұрын

    Pray for me

  • @ShanandHailey
    @ShanandHailey Жыл бұрын

    I have this spirit attached to me

  • @KerryLeighBrett
    @KerryLeighBrett Жыл бұрын

    Hi I am going through this rejection, from my family and rejected sales from my work. Its like a month of rejection, and I called a friend and she doesnt even take my call. Whats is going on!!!

  • @judsonspruce1768
    @judsonspruce17684 ай бұрын

    I'm interested to know if Pastor Chip is still with the mother of his child after hearing her say she wasn't interested in going to church? My wife and I have been together 50 years, raised two daughters. She won't go to church with me and it's real hard not having her by my side at church.

  • @WarandFlame
    @WarandFlame Жыл бұрын

    Look at the sin of Jeroboam son of Nabet. He changed the worship of God for fear Israel would leave his Kingdom going to Jerusalem to worship. He erected calves and said Israel here is your God. Abandonment is fear of man which is abandonment. It says fear of man is a snare. I have a stronghold of abandonment it came from codependentcy being raised by a narcissist. Now I’m being delivered from the Ahab spirit who walked in the sin of Jeroboam which is fear of man who let Jezebel have authority and allowed Jezebel to kill a man. Complacency. He would not eat his bread 🍞 or drink water. Now I’m still being triggered by My mother Jezebel. The enemy will be members of his own household. It’s rejection.Her words of criticism triggers me because of rejection. I recently had people turn on me. Friends that criticize me and I was triggered because of rejection. It says a hypocrite with his mouth destroys his neighbor but through knowledge the just will be delivered. I put confidence in man for identity but wait. I said Lord I’m ready to respond like you but he said you can’t because you are still being triggered by rejection. This is the strongman in my house. Lilith she came through men using me through people pleasing Ahab. I had spiritual wounds and I was led captive into BABylon faced with a twinflame lie that would make a man my God. I wouldn’t sell my vineyard to Ahab.Read 2nd Kings Naboths vineyard Naboth lost his life. Ahab stole it because he permitted Jezebel to do it. This rejection spirit is hindering me with perfectionism and anxiety. All the seeds and eggs sown. God is healing these waters. I definitely have rejection and it’s going to deter me. I can’t walk in Elijah with this.

  • @fionagrant2023
    @fionagrant2023Күн бұрын

    l get rejected so regularly its ridiculous. All these promises are LIES

  • @isaiah1corinthians598
    @isaiah1corinthians5982 жыл бұрын

    Yellow flag: He held back information of himself, his life, about rejection & abandonment because of witchcraft & jezebel from his mother & by a female pastor who told him what to mention & not mention in this sermon to help people. That information he withheld from people who suffer from rejection could save them much heartache, sickness, death, years, great distress, the list goes on. He withheld this information because of control, manipulation of this hidden information he should have disclosed which = witchcraft. All done by females again, turning the men's head around any way they want when the man has his own neck & head & directed from God. I am talking about male Pastors, Ministers. They don't need females, girls, women telling them what to do & what to say in Ministry. Apostles got revelations & direction from God, Holy Spirit directly. Men, Apostles in the Bible did NOT need, depend on women to take over their Ministry, influence it but they had solely confirmation by men & by primarily the Holy Spirit, God directly. Women, stay away from Men & their Ministries, you are doing damage, blocking breakthrough of God in the church of Christ, God as whole, globally, Jezebel & Witchcraft are growing subtly & sneaky, deceivingly in ministries & churches in America & worldwide. Be very very careful men, Ministers, church, wake up & keep your eyes & ears open & stay in the Word, New Testament, Christ & Paul's ministries & live the Bible, follow Christ's words, commandments, do them, live them, apply them...& be like Christ as much as possible with the power of the Holy Spirit. Learn the traps of the devil & learn & apply deliverance to yourselves & to those in need & over your ministry to protect it, to make it thrive otherwise your ministries will be blocked, sick, controlled by females & your churches will lose the Holy Spirit great manifestation & it will be blocked from Holy Spirit power, healing, deliverance, direction...breakthrough. You don't want witchraft & Jezebel running, blocking your ministries, churches. Love Dimitris

  • @ezraana1
    @ezraana13 жыл бұрын

    They renounced rejection , but you did'nt cast that spirit of rejection out !

  • @coachoconnor1
    @coachoconnor13 жыл бұрын

    cut to the chase my brother

  • @godsnobody2915
    @godsnobody29152 жыл бұрын

    Oh wow...another extrovert analyzing the opposite temperament and invalidating their experiences based on his own. But wisdom is justified of her children. Sir, your heart is very callous and narrow...thank God you aren't...you know...Him...who you profess to know so well...

  • @1braverat1968
    @1braverat19683 жыл бұрын

    John the Baptist was a lone wolf

  • @matthewcrowson4397

    @matthewcrowson4397

    3 жыл бұрын

    Naw he had disciples

  • @creativechristiancontent

    @creativechristiancontent

    Жыл бұрын

    @@matthewcrowson4397 No actually wrong he lived most of his life for years out alone in the wilderness.