Your failure begins when you depend on what others feel or say about you. You are justified if you believe everything the Lord tells you. No Jesus no peace. Vain is the help of man. Every instruction and assignment has a blueprint given for it's execution. If God has delivered you from bondage, don't play with chains of afflictions. Your acceptance by man cannot validate God's approval of you. To be different, be sanctified and separated to Jesus. Are you discouraged, go to God and not man, to revalidate your steps.