Recently, in our NorthEast IAM Convening, I did a session on a white board that shows how we deal with a principality over a region that gives Orphan Spirit behavior and binds the people. You can watch the video of that session here: I will be doing some more teaching on this important subject in [...]
Recently, in our NorthEast IAM Convening, I did a session on a white board that shows how we deal with a principality over a region that gives Orphan Spirit behavior and binds the people.
You can watch the video of that session here:
I will be doing some more teaching on this important subject in the coming months. I’ll try to use more video to bring the message of freedom to those who are longing to be loose of this demonic stronghold.
You can watch IAM TV now on LightWireTV.net
“Abandonment is a severe trauma that holds a soul in captivity for a very long time and may cause a great escape from life’s pain and fears. Abandonment hits hard. It seems that our choice is then reaction or proaction.”
I was watching an interview on television with author, Brad Meltzer, concerning his latest book. He stated that the aunt of the late Jerome Siegel, who was the original creator of Superman as a character for comic books, had told him of a dream that Siegel had as a liitle boy, after the shooting death of his father, Mitchel. This dream supposedly began what we know about the famed super-hero. Quoting Meltzer: “In 1932, Mitchell Siegel was killed by three gunshots to his chest. While mourning, his son dreamed of a bulletproof man and created the world’s greatest hero: Superman.”
Jerry Siegel is said to have dreamed of of bullet proof man in a defensive response to the terrible loss of his father. Whether this be a true story or not, it is apparent that the feelings of loss – abandonment can definitely give way to dreams of super normal life. Super-Heros can become a need for orphans, since they don’t believe their fathers are able to protect themselves or their children. It is like a search for pseudo-fathering that can actually be controlled by the orphaned child so that loss is prohibitive even in the face of danger.
In other words, I wonder how much of our intrigue with super normal life might actually be and escape from the fear of loss? Then when, as Job said, “The thing that I feared the most has come upon me,” and loss in normal life occurs, is it the orphan spirit that drives some even deeper into a fantasy of super life? Do we escape into our imaginations by defense? I believe this is a popular way of dealing with life and is a real destroyer of faith in Jesus Christ.
The orphan spirit can even bait a child to come out of the dreams that are given them by their loving heavenly Father and into the world of fantasy. Thus, the “I’m gonna be a rock star, I’m going to be president, I’m going to be rich and famous!” loses all sense of substance. Those who actually become those things in life are hard workers and they can plot a roadway to get there. Those who fantasize will only speak of billowy clouds of what they wish to be. We must be cognizant that fantasy and dreams are not the same, and faith is not the result of fantasy, it is the result of love.
Abandonment is a severe trauma that holds a soul in captivity for a very long time and may cause a great escape from life’s pain and fears. Abandonment hits hard. It seems that our choice is then reaction or proaction.
Here is what Jesus said to His disciples about His death and leaving them: “Are you inquiring among yourselves about what I said, ‘A little while, and you will not see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me?’ Most assuredly, I say to you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; and you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy. A woman, when she is in labor, has sorrow because her hour has come; but as soon as she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world. Therefore you now have sorrow; but I will see you again and your heart will rejoice, and your joy no one will take from you.” John 16: 19 – 22 (NKJV)
The power of love and life overcomes death and abandonment! Love is not fantasy. Loss and even death in this world is going to be part of all of our lives. It is necessary for us to substantiate and solidify the loving presence of our heavenly Father in our lives in proaction to the losses so that we never lose.
From when a friend moves away, to a loving family that is leaving the church to go to another, or even someone near and dear to us dies, we do not hold on, we do not grieve unendingly, we do not fantasize of how things ought to be different, and we certainly do not lose ourselves in the fanasies of another kind of existence.
It is the love of the Father that we must receive and trust in. That love will cause faith to arise and we will never be without no matter how few earthly things it seems that we may have. Let us rid ourselves of the fears of doing without. Let us trust in our heavenly Father and show Him our faith in overcoming the world, with joy – His joy made full in us!
“Father in heaven, I trust in You with my whole heart. Sanctify the pictures and images of my heart and my mind with the overwhelming, overcoming power of Your love. Speak to me in vision and in dream and show me the paths of our walk together. I trust in You at every turn in the pathways of life with You. I know that many of the loves of my life will take other paths at different times and different seasons, but I truly want the best for them, even as I know that my very best is found in You. My heart can only be wounded by the unbelief that is received by me, but my faith arising is the balm that heals! My knowledge of Your love – Your goodness and Your power to cause the future to take place is what I will trust in. I am Your child. I will walk the wonderful and glorious paths of life with You for ever and ever. Amen.”
“The orphan spirit will cause a person to strain their lives away, trying to produce “fruit of the Spirit†never realizing that it is the Spirit’s fruit and not theirs. Fruit has to do with inheritance and not works…”
The motives of the heart are somehow directly related to any individuals happiness and joy. The Orphan spirit can greatly control the motives of the heart to the point of disaster if left unchecked and unsettled. It is no wonder that Christian disciplines take such a prominent place in the teachings, the life and the mind of the orphaned Christian.
The orphan will consider it his/her duty to exercise disciplined behavior, whereas the Child of God will find pleasure in God’s life without the bondage of sin.
The orphan spirit will cause a person to strain their lives away, trying to produce “fruit of the Spirit” never realizing that it is the Spirit’s fruit and not theirs. Fruit has to do with inheritance and not works, or “spit and polish.”
The child of God examples fruit by their inheritance because they seek the Father and not because they think it is their duty to discipline their behavior patterns. The Father disciplines our behavior and He does it much better than the orphaned child!
In other words, the orphan serves God out of duty and the weight of that duty can be so heavy that there is no motivation at all toward leaving the sin behind and walking in the love of the Father. Or the duty to serve becomes the driving force in the life of the person who yields to the commands of the orphan spirit.
The scripture tells us that there is only one thing that gives pleasure to God and that one thing is faith. “For without faith it is impossible to please Him.” That faith seeks the presence of the Lord. The orphan spirit causes a distorted focus and makes people seek good behavior instead of the presence of the Lord in their life.
The child of God is more apt to experience the pleasures of the Lord’s presence than the pleasures of sin for a season. It is a delight to wait upon the Lord and have all strength renewed and there is less time or necessity for sin. We truly must draw nearer and nearer to the Father of lights!
“Father God, I want to become more and more like You and learn to have your presence in my life at all times. I do not have the power within myself to change but You have more than enough love for me and more than enough power to transform me into living breathing representative of my heavenly Father’s love and life. I am Yours. You are my peace and my joy. All glory and power is Yours, O LORD! I know that true change comes to me when I am with You and in Your Presence. You are therefore all that I need. Fill me to overflowing with Your love and that acute present anointing! Thank you, Father, for all that You are to me and to all that call upon your name! Amen ! !”
“So, the orphan spirit is critical and can even believe that they have that great “gift of discernment” that they operate in. The orphan child is, however, deceived.”
The orphan has persistent regret about the past. Circumstances cannot be forgotten and there is constant, even seemingly consistent, input that depreciates the self worth of the orphan child within. Surges of memories that deteriorate any good to the heart and mind of the orphan child seem to come in waves over them.
The pain of it causes the orphan to strike out with judgment and criticism, in order to try to balance the scales of worth. Making others be bad then becomes the pattern of life for the orphan spirit. If others fail and show lack of worth, “it feels better, even if it doesn’t make me be any better.”
So, the orphan spirit is critical and can even believe that they have that great “gift of discernment” that they operate in. The orphan child is, however, deceived.
The scripture says, “Love . . . is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; love does not rejoice in the iniquity of another . . .” (1 Corinthians 13: 4-6)
The child of God cries out, “Please don’t make me bad so that you can substantiate your good! Don’t place me in the prison of your pain!”
If there is a lack of excitement over other people’s successes, if one is exalted in any way and you are not, if feelings of jealousy arise because of someone else’s success, you are listening to that orphan spirit that wants to destroy you. If you have imagined people to be bad when neither their character nor their behavior have supported such a surmise, you have been deceived by the orphan spirit.
The Father sees possibilities with people. His eyes are upon each of His children and He’s busy believing for their best. What child of His does not want to have their Father’s eyes? To have your Father’s eyes you will see the things in people that He chooses to see and not the gross errors that the accuser of the brethren sees.
“My Trusted Father God, You are so full of mercy and love for me and for every one of Your children. Your wonderful creative loving eyes are full of hope and care for every one of us and I believe with all my heart that You are so very good and Your mercy endures forever and ever! Lord, deliver me from the snare of the trapper that causes me to have a critical eye toward others and and unbelieving heart toward their future and their destiny. Let me rejoice from the depths of my heart in their successes and let me desire to pray and have faith and encouragement toward them when they are anything less that successful! Deliver me! Oh my God from all that is orphan and help me to use the power that You have given me to become Your child of inheritance! Amen.”
“For years I have preached a gospel of grace that is radical in the light of what the church normally preaches. Some people that I love dearly and truly admire simply cannot grasp it. They cannot understand it nor can they receive it with freedom.”
There is a picture in my mind that I have seen a thousand times.
. . . The eyes of little boys and little girls that look up from what they are busy doing . . .
Looking longingly at a dad or a mom or someone they want desperately to respect . . .
They gaze in order to see if there is a return to their gaze . . .
This is the picture of a child that simply needs someone’s approval from above them. Too often that simple need is not met. Too often that simple need is never met. A selfish world is not paying attention to the little eyes that gaze. A self center need driven people do not understand the investment that is made in the act of appreciating one child at a time.
That same little boy/little girl grows up never having had the approval that was desired and reacts to every stimulus as rejection, hurt and pain. Even when that child becomes an adult and begins to serve God, he still performs and needs the approval of God and man in everything he does. That little girl is still looking up with a gaze that is hoping for something in return. A substantiation of her heart and life, but . . .
. . . but a wall has been built by the orphan spirit that caused that rejection from the very beginning.
For years I have preached a gospel of grace that is radical in the light of what the church normally preaches. Some people that I love dearly and truly admire simply cannot grasp it. They cannot understand it nor can they receive it with freedom. They simply must perform. They perform for God and they perform for man. If they happen to love me they even perform for me. What’s that about?
I often picture with these, whom I am especially fond of, that have such a fight to receive grace, the little boy . . .
. . . the little girl, with eyes that are looking for approval that is so very hard to get, if it is accessible at all . . .
This is the work of the orphan spirit! Years of eroding the heart and soul of this child of God! A spirit of death and hell that comes to usurp the heritage of the Lord as he did in the Garden of Eden! Placement of the question of God’s love and handling of His children! The child is forced to seek approval in other ways. This system is demonic!
Yet the child of God who lives by faith is not only readily accepting of grace but is also walking in that grace as a robe of inheritance. That child of the living God is generous with grace because the heart of the child of God is like his Father! His Father in heaven is the epitome of generosity and that little girl–that little boy is fulfilled and has become an adult that is satisfied with the knowing that he shares His Father’s character and traits.
That “Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free!”
“Papa God! I desperately need Your delivering power to flow through my heart and cleanse me from all that the serpent may have done to me. I want to gaze at You with awe and never for Your approval. I know that I am approved by Your grace and that is now a settled issue in my soul and my heart of hearts! I gaze at You in amazement as a greater love swells on the inside of me. My eyes will forever more meet You, wherever You are working and my joy is in knowing that I am not an orphan. Your Spirit abides both in me and with me – that Spirit of adoption whereby I cry out to You; Abba! Father!! I am not rejected! I am Your inheritance and You are mine. Therefore, rejection is an impossibility! The spirit of rejection, that demonic thing, must go from me by the power of the Blood of Jesus Christ. Oh, that precious Blood that cleanses my heart, my soul, my thoughts and my intentions. That is the Blood of my inheritance in You, Father God! I am grateful that I am appreciated by You. I am now living a life filled with joy knowing that my gaze as Your child is one of amazement of Your love, Your grace, Your great and glorious abilities to be my Father! Abba! I am Yours! Amen.”
“When the orphan spirit is working in a person’s life they are not sure of themselves. They try to pretend that they are confident but they are insecure and lack true peace in their lives.”
“Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. You have heard Me say to you, ‘I am going away and coming back to you.’” (John 14: 27 & 28)
A good father will provide security and stability through love. If there is one thing that I want all of my sons and daughters – my sons and daughters of faith to know – it is that I dearly love them. I love them as individuals and I love them as a whole family. This is even more the case with our Father God.
Yet there are so many that will not be comforted. The orphan spirit comes with insecurities and lies of who the child of God is not. The scriptures tell us of our shortcomings if we do not heed the word and the promises of the Lord. Hebrews chapter 4 & 5 tell of how the children of the Lord did not enter the “rest” because of their unbelief that they were accepted by God the Father. The writer of Hebrew reveals how the Father stated openly, “This is My Beloved Son in Whom I am well pleased!” Although the proclamation is made by the Father and the children are called His children, they did not believe His promises for themselves and they walked through the wilderness like orphans. They did not enter His rest!
When the orphan spirit is working in a person’s life they are not sure of themselves. They try to pretend that they are confident but they are insecure and lack true peace in their lives. I have to sadly report that most Christians I know are not happy because they listen too much to the orphan spirit instead of believing as a child of the Father.
The person who truly believes themselves to be the child in whom He is well pleased is a faith-filled child and one who is confident in the Father’s love and not constantly performing to see if He will prove His love to them if they do right.
There is a steadfast peace to the child of God. Security, stability and confidence is without question. These come by knowing the love of the Father. The true child knows the he or she is loved. Period.
The orphan spirit is fearful, nervous and even unstable at times. There is a tremendous lack of trust because they listen to the voices of the orphan. The orphan spirit may give false tranquility but it is not the true peace.
The peace of God the Father comes from within. It is that secure and steadfast knowledge that I am His child and I please Him greatly. I believe that with all my heart.
“My heavenly Father, I trust You with all that is within me. I watch You do so much inside of me and I can see You working mightily around me. The voice of Your Spirit soothes me in troubled times and I know that I am Yours and nothing can separate me from Your love and care. You give me peace. You make me one with You. You are my Rock on which I stand and I do not have to waver one bit. You surround me with Your loving Fatherly arms and make me to know that I am Your child. Abba! You are my delight! I am the apple of Your eye and object of Your affection and the center of Your focus right now. I receive Your peace and I believe Your promises for me. Every single promise without excuse and without wavering at all! I am Your inheritance and You are mine! All of my heart is Yours, Papa! Amen.”
“The initiator of the evil side of religion was the serpent. He still sways many to his “religion” and removes them from their attachments to the garden of promise and from communications with God the Father.”
The word “religion” is a biblical word that means good and not evil. However, the modern definition and references to religion has now become a very negative term. It alludes to the self-righteous beliefs and acts of those who believe in a god of any kind. When the word is used in most Christian arenas it refers to those who tout a knowledge of good and evil. That sounds like the garden of Eden, doesn’t it? The initiator of the evil side of religion was the serpent. He still sways many to his “religion” and removes them from their attachments to the garden of promise and from communications with God the Father. That is what religion does.
An easy definition that tests our religious thinking is when it is more important to be right than to love. From that definition we find that same satanic religious mindset in almost every area of life. Is it more important for you to be right or to love? If love is your answer then let love do the work instead of “right.”
The law of sin and death is a severing of relationship with God the Father. When we live by that law of sin and death we must always be serving our behavior and judging our relationship with the Father according to how we act. If that were a true religion we would all be doomed – every one! God forbid!
This is one strong description of the orphan spirit that fights against the Spirit of Adoption in our lives. The orphan spirit lives by the love of the law but the true child of God the Father lives by the law of love! There were two trees in that wonderful garden: The Tree of Life & The Tree of the Knowledge of Good & Evil! Jesus is the Tree of Life! The devil wants us to eat from the tree of the Knowledge of Good & Evil! Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! Let us change what we know about good and evil and trade all of that knowledge in for the love that walks and talks with our heavenly Father in the cool of the day, through the wonders of His garden!
“Papa God! I do not wish to be drawn away from Your loving embrace and be continually conscious of the good and the bad in my life. I want to be in Your presence where all that matters is love. The love I have from You and the love I give to You. The substance of Your love is always enough. Even in the worst of situations for me. I am in awe of YOU. I love how You talk with me in so many ways with so many kinds of sounds. You are my strength that goes on without end. I do not have to leave You when I get up from my “alone time” with You. You are as much with me when I walk through my day as You are when I pray. Help me to see Your lovingkindness at work. Even let it work in me. In my wrong doing, You comfort my soul and Your love turns it around and produces a miracle. Is there anything that Your love cannot do? I think not. Let Your grace – Your peace – abide in me now. Amen.”
