TheВ spiritВ ofВ sonshipВ functions out of love and acceptance. TheВ orphanВ spiritВ operates out of insecurity and jealousy.

The following 11В traitsВ contrast theВ orphanВ spiritВ from theВ spiritВ ofВ sonship:ДЎ. Only when a person is healed of fatherlessness through the love of God is theorphanВ spiritВ broken so they can begin the process of entering matureВ sonship.В SonshipВ is so important that all creation is presently crying out for the manifestation of the mature sons of God (Rom. It will take spiritual parents with great spiritual depth and authority to break and reverse this curse to perpetuate a generational blessing. TheВ orphanВ spiritВ is perhaps the greatest curse on the earth today. The only way to break thisВ orphanВ spiritВ is for people to be filled with a sense of the FatherвЂ™s love for them in Christ, which then enables them to become mature sons who serve God out of knowledge of His undeserved grace instead of trying to earn the FatherвЂ™s love through performance. There are churches filled with pastors and leaders who use people and destroy relationships because they are driven to succeed, and itвЂ™s due to their need for a fatherвЂ™s affirmation-which is a hole too large for ministry success or performance to fill. There are presently millions of incarcerated men who are acting out lives of violence and rebellion because their earthly fathers abandoned them.

Orphaned men have a hard time connecting to their spouses, their children, those in spiritual authority and their supervisors, and they have a hard time accepting and loving themselves. I believe all of the emotional, physical and spiritual ills of society can be traced to humans feeling alienated from God and their biological fathers. To make matters worse, in contemporary society, with the breakup of the nuclear family, large amounts of people are not only alienated from God but are brought up without the loving care and security of their biological fathers.

The Difference Between the Orphan Spirit and a Spirit of SonshipДЎ:00PM EDT Joseph Mattera Joseph Mattera Ever since Adam and Eve were alienated from God the Father in the Garden of Eden, anВ orphanВ spiritВ has permeated the earth, causing untold damage! (By вЂњorphan,вЂќ I am referring to a sense of abandonment, loneliness, alienation and isolation.) Almost immediately after the fall in Eden, the fruit of thisВ orphanВ spiritВ resulted in jealousy, culminating in Cain murdering his brother Abel because God the Father didnвЂ™t receive CainвЂ™s offering.