We are not orphans......

There are NO ORPHANS OF GOD!

This morning I come to you after much prayer and reflection of all that has occurred this past week. We have literally seen the hand of God that cannot be denied. And as God spoke into our hearts of the spiritual orphans that are in such pain, I wanted to share with you the depth of what God is speaking and I pray you will hear His voice and know His love.

But what is a spiritual orphan? A spiritual orphan is one who feels alone one who feels that they do not have a safe and secure place in the Father's heart where He can affirm, protect, provide and express His love to them. They feel as if they do not belong. They are full of fear, anxiety and insecurity.

Spiritual orphans cannot receive the love of the Father because they have been personally abused, hurt, rejected and wounded by those they trusted with their heart. They cannot receive the love of their heavenly Father because they cannot bring themselves to a place of being able to trust Him. Trust involves vulnerability. Trust involves receiving. Spiritual orphans cannot trust or receive until the unhealed issues and hidden cores of pain are attended to. Basic trust is a real issue in the life of a spiritual orphan.

Trust involves opening your heart to others. Spiritual orphans have closed their hearts because they are afraid of being hurt. They refuse to make themselves vulnerable to others because of past hurts and pain. Their spirits are closed to a love relationship with their heavenly Father because they do not trust Him. Instead of running to God, they are continually running away from Him.

Spiritual orphans are dysfunctional because they lack the basic trust needed to have healthy relationships with those in authority. They find themselves battling with fear, control issues, independence and pride. They are not able to have intimate relationships because they are not able to receive comfort or love from God or others.

Spiritual orphans are those who remain in the outer court of God's presence. They do not have the capability to enter into the Holy of Holies because they fear intimacy. They have closed their hearts as a type of protection.

They are not able to submit to authority because of fear. Submission involves having an open heart. Submission involves vulnerability, closeness and honesty in relationships. Submission is an act of humility and receiving that releases God's grace and abilities in our lives. Submission has the power to set us free from our fears and insecurities.

Spiritual orphans have an independent spirit which often causes them to hide or deny pain. They like to control relationships with anger, passivity, isolation or various other means. They keep their distance from those who are in authority or from those who are able to help them.

Spiritual orphans often find comfort and identity in money (by possessing material things), addictions (to alcohol, drugs, food and other forms of immorality), position (looking for acceptance by obtaining the praise of man or striving to be seen by man), and power (by controlling their own lives).

Spiritual orphans focus more on God's acts than on His ways. They tend to keep themselves busy doing religious activity out of duty instead of relationship. In their limited understanding, love is not received, but earned. Their belief system tells them that they need to do more and more in order to be accepted by God. They are deceived into believing that they will never measure up to God's standard because they can never do enough to attain His love and acceptance.

Spiritual orphans are servants only and not sons or daughters of God. Servants perform duties, while sons and daughters receive the love of the Father!!

I believe that we are in a season of becoming the true sons and daughters of God. The Holy Spirit is putting His finger in the hidden places of our hearts so that we can be healed and restored to a deeper relationship with Him. He desires more than and outer court relationship with us. He desires intimacy which involves inner court relationship. Inner court relationship involves trust and vulnerability.

The body of Christ has not been fully operating in the authority of God because we are still functioning as spiritual orphans.

Jesus was declared the Son of God by His Father on the day of His baptism. Baptism represents death and resurrection. Baptism is a going down, a submitting unto death and an immersion into it. Resurrection can only take place after a death experience.

We must die to this orphan spirit. We must die to any independence of doing our own thing or doing our own will. We must die to any and all ungodly beliefs that keep us from becoming sons and daughters of God.

Hebrews 1:3 - ".....when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they."

What is this verse saying? What name did Jesus obtain through His death and resurrection? He obtained the name, "Son of God."

Luke 3:22 - And the Holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon Him, and a voice came from heaven which said, "You are My beloved Son in You I am well pleased."

After Jesus was baptized, symbolizing His death and resurrection, the Father made a decree from heaven to the world that Jesus was His beloved Son.

The Father in heaven is now waiting to decree our sonship to not only the world, but also to the principalities and powers of hell. When God the Father decrees our sonship as a result of our spiritual death and resurrection, the demons in hell will tremble because we will walk in the true authority and power of God.

It's time for us to get right with God. We need to repent and receive forgiveness through His blood because we have chosen to remain as spiritual orphans instead of sons and daughters of God. We must allow the Holy Spirit to have full rule and reign in our lives so that we can be set free and healed by His supernatural power. We must give ourselves completely to the Lord, withholding nothing from Him.

James 4:7-9 - Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.

We are not orphans......There are NO ORPHANS OF GOD!

How Awesome!

No Orphans of God

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No Orphans of God
Who here among us has not been broken
Who here among us is without guilt or pain
So oft’ abandoned by our transgressionsIf such a thing as grace exists
Then grace was made for lives like this.

There are no strangers
There are no outcasts
There are no orphans of God
So many fallen, but hallelujah
There are no orphans of God

Come ye unwanted and find affection
Come all ye weary, come and lay down your head
Come ye unworthy, you are my brother
If such a thing as grace exists
Then grace was made for lives like this

O blessed Father, look down upon us
We are Your children, we need Your love
We run before Your throne of mercy
And seek Your face to rise above

Overcomers!

Revelation 12:10-12

“Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: ‘Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ.

For the accuser of our brothers, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down.

They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.

Therefore rejoice, you heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has gone down to you! He is filled with fury, because he knows that his time is short.’”

As we tarry in fasting & prayer today…………….


Hebrews 10:32-35

“Remember those earlier days after you had received the light, when you stood your ground in a great contest in the face of suffering.

Sometimes you were publicly exposed to insult and persecution; at other times you stood side by side with those who were so treated.

You sympathized with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, because you knew that you yourselves had better and lasting possessions.

So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded.”

No Matter What! -"...seek ye first the Kingdom of God...."

We know that the enemy of our souls and the Kingdom of God is out to turn us inward so that we will have to pour our attention toward ourselves instead of the needs of others.

Do we all have needs? You know we do! - - - - physical, financial, families, and more……Are you and I under attack from Satan? You know we are! Should we be surprised?

I am claiming Matt. 6: 25 “But seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and then all these things shall be added to you.”

Beat Satan at his own game! Turn it back in his face! As much as we pray for our ourselves ….let’s pray double for others. We are all ‘winners’. We will not accept defeat! We are our Daddy-God’s favorite daughters!!!!! We are going to see great and mighty things happen for ourselves and for those who are counting on us to stand steadfast and not waver - - - no matter ‘what’!

Blessings are ours today!
Dorothy

Matt. 6: 25 -34 (Amplified Bible)

25Therefore I tell you, stop being perpetually uneasy (anxious and worried) about your life,what you shall eat or what you shall drink; or about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life greater [in quality]than food, and the body [far above and more excellent] than clothing?

26Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father keeps feeding them. Are you not worth much more than they?

27And who of you by worrying and being anxious can add one unit of measure (cubit) to his stature or to the span of his life?

28And why should you be anxious about clothes? Consider the lilies of the field and earn thoroughly how they grow;they neither toil nor spin.

29Yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his magnificence (excellence, dignity, and grace) was not arrayed like one of these.

30But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and green and tomorrow is tossed into the furnace, will He not much more surely clothe you, O you of little faith?

31Therefore do not worry and be anxious, saying, What are we going to have to eat? or, What are we going to have to drink? or, What are we going to have to wear?

32For the Gentiles (heathen) wish for and crave and diligently seek all these things,and your heavenly Father knows well that you need them all.

33But seek (aim at and strive after) first of all His kingdom and His righteousness (His way of doing and being right),and then all these things taken together will be given you besides.

34So do not worry or be anxious about tomorrow,for tomorrow will have worries and anxieties of its own. Sufficient for each day is its own trouble.

"My God shall supply all your need......"

Philippians 4:19: "And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus". (NKJV)

It’s still In the Book for the average Christian, this verse is not one you need to stop and think about because you have heard it so many times over the years. It is right up there with John 3:16. Did you ever think about the fact that it was written while Paul was in prison? He had no job, no church to speak in, and was completely at the mercy of the Roman government. Soldiers stood outside his cell to guard him and he was limited to the clothes he was wearing and writing materials. The Roman government did not supply Paul’s needs. Paul knew God was his source of supply.

The concept of Philippians 4:19 has been with us since the fall of man. It has never been a good time in the land when believers trusted in Jehovah Jireh, the Lord our Provider. God supplied for the children of Israel when they were four hundred years in captivity in Egypt. He also supplied for them for forty years in the wilderness. Where are you going to find provisions in slavery and in the desert? God met their every need, every day. God supplied for Daniel and the Hebrew children when they were in the furnace of fire. He supplied for Daniel in the lion’s den and David when he ran through the desert for his life. Elijah, Elisha and other prophets of the Old Testament saw God come through and supply for them during famines, droughts, and natural disasters.

SO WHAT ABOUT TODAY?With the collapse of the financial markets in our country, many Christians are wondering what they are going to do. They are watching their retirement, savings, and college accounts dwindle and disappear daily before their eyes. I recently heard a minister say that God is simply asking us if we are willing to be content with Him and His presence if we do not have enough money. I hope the answer for your life is “yes.” Hebrews 13 tells us to be content with what we have. I certainly want to be content with what I have. I never want it to be said that my trust is in money or the possessions God has given me.

Yet, despite the economy, the condition of our financial markets and the weakness of our government, Philippians 4:19 is still in the Bible. Prosperity is still the will of God for His people. Through the despair of the past few weeks in our nation, not one promise of prosperity has changed. The Bible still reads the same. God still wishes above all things that we prosper and be in heath (3 John 2). God still promises if we give to Him, it will be returned to us good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over (Luke 6;38). El Shaddai (the All Sufficient One) has not changed His name.

God did not promise to take us where the financial blessings are. When we believe God for money, He does not transfer us to another part of the city, country, or planet. We may not see real good times in our country in the days to come, but one thing is certain: God will bring the blessings to me! I do not need to look for another city or country to relocate to. The God who brought manna to the Israelites will do the same for me today. We can say with David, “I have been young, and now am old; Yet, I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor His descendants begging bread.” (Psalm 37:25)

Continue to pray for our nation and its future, but do not worry. The God, who continues to provide for the birds and flowers, will not forget you. You are far more precious to Him than anything else in creation.

Many Blessings,
Dorothy