7/54 Healing the Orphan Spirit
Every child born into this world was created to be a son or daughter to someone. Each of us was created with a 
capacity to receive love from a mother and father. Yet, many of us cannot say that we have been true sons or daughters to our parents or to spiritual fathers. We are born with a spirit of independence and want control of our own lives. This kind of orphan thinking affects our relationship with authority and Father God.
We do not cast out an orphan heart, but it must be introduced to a Loving Father and then be willing to receive the Father. If we do not allow ourselves to be fathered by the Father of Creation, it becomes very easy to be deceived by the father of lies, the first, Chief spiritual orphan.
We are then left living life as if we do not have a home and feeling like spiritual orphans – a feeling that we do not have a safe and secure place where we are affirmed and protected, where we find identity and a place of belonging in the Father’s love.
Hearts of the Fathers and Children
The Word teaches us that in the last days the hearts of the fathers will be turned to the hearts of the children and so also will the hearts of the children be turned back to their fathers.
Mal. 4:6 “6 ….and he shall turn and reconcile the hearts of the [estranged] fathers to the [ungodly] children, and the hearts of the [rebellious] children to [the piety of] their fathers [a reconciliation produced by repentance of the ungodly], lest I come and smite the land with a curse and a ban of utter destruction.”
This is a Universal Problem:
Not one of us has ever had sonship. We are all born with an orphan spirit. We are all born as orphans. We can be born again, spirit filled, etc. but still have orphan thinking.
The turning point of 4000 years of history:
John 14:18-23 “18 I will not leave you as orphans [comfortless, desolate, bereaved, forlorn, helpless]; I will come [back] to you.”
Orphans have no faith for anyone to meet their need. The only thing they know is to take it for themselves. You may have been introduced to the Father but you can’t receive His love. You can legally be a son or daughter but still live your life as if you don’t have a home – you can’t receive the love.
Heb 12:7 “You must submit to and endure [correction] for discipline; God is dealing with you as with sons. For what son is there whom his father does not [thus] train and correct and discipline?”
Inheritance is not for orphans – it’s for sons!
Susanne Fengler, Blog Author
www.christianfoundations.jesus-treeoflife.info
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Filed under: From Slave to Sonship
Hi Susanne,
I have been enjoying your series Slave to Bride, especially your article on Orpan Spirit. There are way too many people in the Church like this – sad to say!