Orphan Spirit – The Unloving Spirit

The subject matter is the Orphan Spirit, but the Orphan Spirit and the Unloving Spirit are one and the same.  The Unloving Spirit is from Satan and is opposite of God’s Love.  Satan has done great damage to us all with the Orphan Spirit.
Ever since Adam and Eve were alienated from God the Father in the Garden of Eden, an orphan spirit has permeated the earth, causing untold damage! By “orphan,” I am referring to a sense of rejection, abandonment, loneliness, alienation and isolation.  Isolation because of separation from self, others, and especially God.  Almost immediately after the fall in Eden, the fruit of this orphan spirit resulted in envy and jealousy, culminating in Cain murdering his brother Abel because God the Father didn’t receive Cain’s offering.  To make matters worse, in contemporary society, with the breakup of the family, large numbers of people are not only alienated from God but are brought up without the loving care and security of their biological fathers who are tasked not only to be the spiritual head of the household, but to convey the perfect love of God to their wife and children.  Unfortunately, we have ten, twenty, thirty, and more generations with an unloving spirit going down the line.

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. 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. There are presently millions of incarcerated men who are acting out lives of violence and rebellion because their earthly fathers abandoned them. There are churches filled with pastors and leaders who use people and destroy relationships because they are driven to succeed, and it’s due to their need for a father’s affirmation—which is a hole too large for ministry success or performance to fill.

The only way to break this Orphan Spirit (Unloving Spirit) is for people to be filled with a sense of the Father’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 Father’s love through performance.  Unfortunately, our lives are punctuated with hurts, betrayals, broken hearts, anger, hatred, offenses, and emotional/ physical traumas making it difficult for one to come out of captivity to feel God’s love or hear from God.

The Orphan Spirit (Unloving Spirit) is perhaps the greatest curse on the earth today. It will take spiritual parents with great spiritual depth and authority to break and reverse this curse to perpetuate a generational blessing. Only when a person is healed of fatherlessness through the love of God is the orphan spirit broken so they can begin the process of entering mature sonship. Sonship is so important that all creation is presently crying out for the manifestation of the mature sons of God (Rom. 8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God).

The following 11 traits contrast the orphan spirit from the spirit of sonship:

1. The orphan spirit operates out of insecurity and jealousy. 

 Those with an orphan spirit are constantly battling envy, jealousy and insecurity, since security originates in a secure relationship with our parents. Those with an orphan spirit are so insecure, they even have a hard time hearing a biological or spiritual father praise them.

The spirit of sonship functions out of love and acceptance.

But those with the spirit of sonship are so secure in the Father’s love and favor that they’re content to serve in any capacity needed because God’s love has given them confidence that they are worthy and special.

2. The orphan spirit is jealous of the success of his brothers.

Those with an orphan spirit are happy when their brother fails because it makes them feel good about themselves.

The mature son is committed to the success of his brothers.

 On the other hand, those with the spirit of sonship joyfully commit themselves to serve, celebrate and help their brothers succeed, since they don’t work for human accolades but out of a deep sense of the love and affirmation of Father God.

3. The orphan spirit serves God to earn the Father’s love.

Along these lines, those with an orphan spirit are constantly striving and trying to earn the Father’s love through accomplishment in ministry or career.

The mature son serves God out of a sense of divine acceptance and favor.

Those with a spirit of sonship already know they are accepted in Christ and serve others out of the abundance of this acceptance.

4. The orphan spirit tries to medicate its deep internal alienation through physical stimulation.

Those with an orphan spirit are constantly trying to push down their sense of alienation, loneliness and lack of self-worth through constant work, going from one relationship to the next, physical gratification and a life of narcissism and self-indulgence. However, the more they indulge, the more addicted they become and the larger the hole in their heart becomes because only the love of the Father can fill the deep emotional needs they have.

The mature son walks in the joy and presence of the Lord for comfort.

Those walking in sonship bask in the presence and love of God and practice the joy of the Lord continually as their source of strength because they understand that grounding their security and self-life in anything other than God is like trying to build a house on sinking sand (Matthew 7:24 “Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock).

5. The orphan spirit is driven by the need for success.

Many seek to accomplish great things to satisfy the deep yearning in their hearts for their father’s approval. This results in them being driven to succeed instead of being led by the Spirit. Even many leaders get their churches into huge debt to build huge buildings, driving the people around them because they are blinded by their own innate feelings of inadequacy. They think they can feel good about themselves with great accomplishments.

 The Spirit leads the mature son into his calling and mission.

Only those with a strong sense of sonship will allow the Lord to direct them and bring opportunities to them without trying to drum up their own success.  God wants us to submit to His righteousness (Romans 10:3 For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God).

6. The orphan spirit uses people as objects to fulfill goals. Those with an orphan spirit tend to use people as objects to accomplish their goals. Whenever we objectify people, we manipulate them with words, threats, and anything necessary to have our way and control them.

Mature sons serve people to bless the kingdom.

 Mature people who walk in son ship don’t use people; they serve and release people to fulfill their destiny in Christ.

7. The orphan spirit repels children.

Leaders and parents with an orphan spirit are constantly in turmoil, fighting and striving for their own way, which gives their spiritual children the sense that their leader is in competition with them instead of loving them. This results in repelling spiritual and biological children, which can forfeit influence over the next generation!

The spirit of sonship attracts children.

Those who walk in son ship walk in the Father’s anointing and draw children toward them because their children hear the voice of a shepherd who cares for them.

8. The orphan spirit has anger and fits of rage.

Those with an orphan spirit have issues with uncontrollable anger, fits of rage and other forms of manipulation because they feel they must control others and their circumstances in order to fulfill their goals.  In most cases, anger has become so much a part of them, it becomes normal to them. This is because they lack the trust necessary in their heavenly Father to guide and control their actions and future.

The spirit of sonship rests in the Father’s ability to control and guide the future.

Those walking in son ship walk in the Father’s rest and have ceased from their own works so the Father can have His  way in their lives.

9. The orphan spirit is always in competition with others.
 
Those with an orphan spirit are always trying to outdo others in their church, family, friends, or business because they receive their identity through being better than everyone else. To them, it’s always about winning.

The spirit of son ship is always blessing others.

Those who walk in sonship are constantly seeing how they can bless others, since they already have the affirmation of God in their souls. They want to freely share His love with others.

10. The orphan spirit lacks self-esteem.

Those with an orphan spirit have a hard time loving and accepting themselves.

The spirit of sonship walks in the love and acceptance of Father God.

Those walking in son ship are filled with a sense of divine love and acceptance that enables them to walk confidently in te joy of the Lord in spite of the fact that all humans are sinners and fall short of the glory of God.

11. The orphan spirit receives its primary identity through material possessions, physical appearance and activities.

Those with an orphan spirit never have enough career success, material possessions, pleasure or illicit relationships to satisfy the hole in their heart related to their identity. Consequently, they are constantly striving to gain satisfaction through the use of various things or people in their lives. In many cases, even their form of dress—including an inordinate number of tattoos, skin piercings and hairdos—can be their way of standing out as unique in a cry for attention due to a lack of self-esteem and fatherly affirmation.

The spirit of sonship is grounded in son ship and the Father’s affirmation.

Those who walk in sonship are so grounded in their divine Father’s affirmation that they can be satisfied serving in the background and can celebrate the success and attention others receive. The void in their soul has already been filled with the unconditional love of the Father.

In conclusion, the greatest gift known to humankind is to accept, receive and walk in the love of the Father, who so loved the world that He gave His ONLY Son so that we may not perish or waste our lives away but experience the abundant life that only our divine Father can give.

The Orphan Spirit (Unloving Spirit) is the single most challenging issue facing all of mankind going back to Adam and Eve when they ate the forbidding fruit.  If we had maintained God’s perfect love since the beginning of man, we would not have committed the inequities throughout the generations.  The inequities that continue to keep us in captivity. 

Blessings,

Tony Sanchez,

References:  NKJV, Joseph Mattera - Bishop of Resurrection Church in New York,  

Grace and Forgiveness

The topic of forgiveness has come up many times with my wife and I.  I have learned to forgive people, but I have a tendency to stay away from those (mostly family members) that have continued to hurt me.  My wife says that I go to a place of protection.  So, one of the discussions will be about this issue.

Yesterday, I heard three different messages on the radio regarding forgiveness.  Joyce Meyers said in her 30 years of ministry, she has found that 80% of Christians she has come across are mad at somebody.  Many have said “But they did this to me and they have done this to me.”  They say that they can’t help the way they feel.  The reality is they can control what they do and say, but they have a tendency to lash out. 

To help you understand grace, Hebrews 12:15 (NLT) says:   Look after each other so that none of you fails to receive the grace of God. Watch out that no poisonous root of bitterness grows up to trouble you, corrupting many.

We have been taught to forgive our brothers and sisters, but too often we are exposed to someone who has been offensive to us and we become bitter and hurt resulting in un-forgiveness.  In that moment, that person “fails to receive God's grace” because grace is not a license to sin.  Do we sin more that grace might abound more? NO!  So, do you think we should continue sinning so that God will give us even more grace?  No! We died to our old sinful lives, so how can we continue living with sin? Romans 6:1-2 (NCV)

So how does a person fail to receive God's grace?  Some teach grace as a covering for sin.  No, grace does not cover sin.  Jesus died on the cross to cover sin.  Grace makes it possible for us to repent now because God has taught us right from wrong.  What grace does first, is teach us.  Grace makes it possible to recognize sin and repent for our servitude to it. 

Faith comes by hearing and hearing by what?  The Word of God.  (So, then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Romans 10:17 (NKJV).  God’s divine influence on the human heart comes through teaching, reading the Word, and the confirmation of the Holy Spirit.  So, when someone knows that they should forgive yet they do not, they have fallen short of the glory of God.  They have failed because now grace is not working since they forgot what it said. (Hebrews 12:15). 

When someone forgets to be kind to you, and they reject you, then that evil realm is trying to get you to repay evil with evil.  You know the thoughts will come and will come very quickly.  “How dare they say that to me?  I am going to get even.” The record of wrongs starting coming one right after another.  The war of repaying evil with evil is futile and you will lose.  See that no one renders evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue what is good both for yourselves and for all. 1 Thessalonians 5:15 (NKJV).  

The root of bitterness starts to work in you.  You feel it, you think it in your mind, you feel it in your belly (physical), and the anger/harsh words/slander manifest in and through you, Ephesians 4:31 (NLT) Get rid of all bitterness, rage, anger, harsh words, and slander, as well as all types of evil behavior.  We must acknowledge bitterness as un-forgiveness.

When you have forgiven that person and you have been forgiven by God for having un-forgiveness, that spirit of bitterness has been removed from you.  Can you still remember what they said or did to you?  Yes, you can remember, because that is what your memory does, but you no longer feel that high octane ping in your inner parts.  That means the sin that dwelt within is no longer teaching you.  Your mind may remember, but it is okay because the Word of God is strong in you now.  The law of God is there.

You are to forgive your brother how many times?  Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven Matthew 18:22 (NKJV).  Forgive them and release them every minute of the day.  His teaching will help you forgive other people.  This teaching will help you to forgive yourself, because it was not you that did it or them that did it to you.  It was the sin that lives within.  Paul struggled with this very thing, the sin within (15 I do not understand the things I do. I do not do what I want to do, and I do the things I hate.  16 And if I do not want to do the hated things I do, that means I agree that the law is good.  17 But I am not really the one who is doing these hated things; it is sin living in me that does them.18 Yes, I know that nothing good lives in me—I mean nothing good lives in the part of me that is earthly and sinful. I want to do the things that are good, but I do not do them.  19 I do not do the good things I want to do, but I do the bad things I do not want to do.  20 So if I do things I do not want to do, then I am not the one doing them. It is sin living in me that does those things.  21 So I have learned this rule: When I want to do good, evil is there with me.  22 In my mind, I am happy with God's law.  23 But I see another law working in my body, which makes war against the law that my mind accepts. That other law working in my body is the law of sin, and it makes me its prisoner.  24 What a miserable man I am! Who will save me from this body that brings me death?  25 I thank God for saving me through Jesus Christ our Lord!   So, in my mind I am a slave to God's law, but in my sinful self I am a slave to the law of sin Romans 7:15-25 (NCV).

Paul understood his shortcomings.  We must understand the shortcomings of ourselves and others.  We must separate the person from the sin and understand what the enemy is trying to do within us.

Grace is not an excuse to sin.  It is by His grace that we are saved. Grace is a gift.  As part of our salvation, we have an obligation to read the Word of God so sanctification can be unto God. Jesus had a lot to say about sanctification in the Book of John, “They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world,” (John 17:16) and this is His request in verse 17: “Sanctify them by Your truth. Your Word is truth”. Sanctification is a state of separation unto God; all believers enter into this state when they are born of God: “But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption” 1 Corinthians 1:30. This is a once-for-ever separation, eternally unto God. It is an intricate part of our salvation and our connection with Christ, By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. Hebrews 10:10.

What we say can be a blessing or a curse.  Our verbal confession of forgiveness and our verbal confession of love for those who have offended us is a blessing not only for the person but for us.  Shout out to the Lord your confession of forgiveness and love for the person who has offended you so that God will forgive you. 

 Father God, I forgive _________ for all their offenses towards me and I ask you to forgive me for having un-forgiveness towards ________.  Father God, I love ______ who you created in love. 

“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.  But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.  Matthew 6:14-15.

And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses. Mark 11:25

God’s grace is sufficient for us (2 Corinthians 12:9 And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore, most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me).  We must bestow His grace on others by the way we treat them even when they offend us.  We can’t avoid them because that is not what Jesus did to those who offended Him with their sin from the beginning to His second coming.  We must model ourselves after Jesus who forgave others without reservation, helped those who were hurting, was patient with those who were difficult, showed kindness to His enemies, and cared (healed & delivered) for those who were lost.

I pray the love from our Heavenly Father helps you overcome any un-forgiveness so that there is healing in your life.

Tony Sanchez 9-22-17

The Battle in the Heavenly Places

Ephesians 6:12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

This verse tells us about where the principalities, powers, rulers of darkness, and spiritual hosts of wickedness are located and where the battle is being waged or should I say, not being waged because we don’t know how.  They are spiritual because they are not limited by time or space as we know it.  The real battle is against these spiritual beings in a heavenly spiritual world.

In traditional theology and within the church, there is little understanding of the invisible world and its operation We are losing the battle because we lack the knowledge and are not equipped to win the battle. 

 

To understand the spiritual world, we must examine the prophetic anointing.  In this manner, we can receive complete revelation.  The prophetic anointing is beyond saying “Thus saith the Lord,” or having a vision from heaven.  It occurs in a different realm than ours.  It is the entrance to the invisible Kingdom of God.  It’s the instrument used by God to make the Kingdom visible, and audible and palpable.  The prophetic anointing allows us to pernitrate it and extract from it riches of wisdom and knowledge.

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The Old Testament prophets experienced this dimension.  Some of them penetrated it, being caught away, as Ezekiel was and saw the temple of God and the Holy City (Ezekiel 10).  Daniel was lifted between heaven and earth to receive the vision of the four beasts (Daniel 7:1-28).  Moses was taken to extraordinary dimensions in which he received the revelation of the Genesis of creation.  The book of Hebrews says that God has prepared something even better for us.  God wants to give us greater things than those that He gave to these men of God. 

The Apostles understood this dimension because they penetrated the kingdom of God.  The union of heaven and earth through Jesus was their daily experience.  Our daily experience should be with the One sent to be like Jesus; the Holy Spirit (14:26).

In Acts 8:39-40, Philip was translated from one place to another in both spirit and body.  The same thing happened to Peter (Acts 12:1-11), when he was taken prisoner by Herod.  While in prison, he fell into a deep sleep and saw an angel that came to rescue him.  Both of them were translated through the prison, as if it were a mere vision.  But the experience was so deep that the Lord deconstructed his body and re materialized it again outside the prison.  Paul was taken to the third heaven (2 Corinthians 12:2) and didn’t know if he was in the body or outside of the body.  John was taken in the Spirit (Revelation 1:19) to see the whole book of Revelation in which, heaven as well as the depths of hell, were both revealed to him.

The book of Acts did not end in the first century.  It continues to be written through those who believe God and have penetrated the Kingdom of God.  We can do the same in this day and age.

The Apostle John and others practiced “being in the spirit” or entering the realm of His Glory, as an essential part of their spiritual lives.  This is a state of deep intimacy with God and the spirit of man becomes hypersensitive to the Presence of God.  Revelation and visions of the heavenly Kingdom are seen in full.

The Kingdom of God is among us and it is only a thin transparent membrane which separates us from it.  It breaks when we know God intimately.  Our faith and love of God and time spent alone with Him allows us to pass from the flesh to the other side in the spirit.  He makes Himself available to us just as He has to others in the bible.

The Apostle John had extraordinary trances in which he saw Jesus in His glory.  He was not only taken to the third heaven, but regions of the kingdom of darkness were also shown to him. 

The more we experience heaven and are used to inhabiting its reality, the greater revelations we will have, even about the secret places of our enemy.  John was taken to a sea and saw a beast (Revelation 13:1).  In chapter 17, an angel carried him to a place of darkness called the desert which was a city full of demons (Revelation 18:2).  Jesus also spoke of that desert and taught his disciples that demons inhabit dry, desert places (Matthew 12:43).

The experience of Apostle John reveals to us both heavenly places, as well as the regions of darkness. God wants us to have this type of experience so He can give His children greater wisdom and knowledge as we prepare for the darkness sure to manifest prior to the coming of Jesus Christ.  Although, the Holy Spirit will not take everyone to the third heaven, everyone can have visions of the kingdom of God and it is possible the Lord will reveal places of captivity to them.

Seeing the spiritual reality was common among the apostles such as Steven when he saw God and Jesus (Acts 7:35 But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God).  In the book of Acts, Peter clearly identified spiritual regions where Simon the magician was being held captive (Acts 8:9-24).  In this case, a vision wasn’t necessary to identify the regions.  The Holy Spirit revealed to them through a word of knowledge.  Even though Simon was baptized a Christian and took part in his local church, he was never set free.  His mind was captured in the spiritual world.

This brings us to the crux of this whole article.  In the last days leading up to the coming of Jesus, we will see evil manifesting at an extraordinary level on the earth and especially through people who are sure to come after the Body of Christ and everyone else.  As it says in Ephesians 6:12 says, the battle will not be in the flesh and blood.  Rather, the battle will be in the heavenly places and we will need to be able to go into the spirt and fight in the name of Jesus using all the power of God and the Holy Spirit.

How do we do this?  We have to totally submit to God (Romans 10:3), seek God (Psalm 14:2), read His word, imitate what the men we previous discussed, and call (Psalm 50:15, 86:7) on the Holy Spirit.  

The following is my experience and findings.  Many of you know that we have been conducting deliverance of fragmented and tormented souls from the prison as the bible has anointed us to do in Isaiah 61:1. The prison is a spiritual place where we have gone to bring those who are bound out of prison.  In essence, this is place that is shown to us in a vision and it has helped my wife and I understand the heavenly places.

After reading Ephesians 6:12 and the Lord giving me understanding, I began asking the Holy Spirit to take me to the heavenly places and reveal to me what I needed to know so I can pray against these higher-level spirits that are well hidden.  Little by little, He began giving us knowledge, answers, revelation of these spirits that enabled us to pray against these spirits.  Understand, that the Lord can only give us so much in this area of warfare, because we are only able to handle a certain amount of knowledge about Satan and his army.  God only gives us enough information to train and prepare us for this heavenly battle and increases our knowledge as we become more experienced.  It takes practice and experience to become a warrior in God’s army.

Operating in the spirt world is biblical and available to all of us in this present age as we prepare to do battle leading up to the coming of the Lord.

Ephesians 6:10-11 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.  Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

Hebrews 4:16 Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.