1. No longer orphans
April 7, 2013

2. Redemption from an orphan spirit
Malachi 4:5-6
Luke 1:16-18
“Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord. 6 He will restore the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, so that I will not come and smite the land with a curse.”
16 And he will turn many of the sons of Israel back to the Lord their God. 17 It is he who will go as a forerunner before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers back to the children, and the disobedient to the attitude of the righteous, so as to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”

3. The Curse of fatherlessness
Absent
Abusive
Judgmental
Performance oriented
Earthly fathers
Spiritual fathers
Authority figures
Divorce
Really bad fathers
Really good fathers…it started in the Garden

4. Symptoms of an orphan spirit
Can keep people from coming to God
Can keep people from coming BACK to God
Can people from getting close to God
Can keep people from walking in their Destiny
Can keep people in bondage
Inability to trust
Fear of rejection
Fear of real intimacy.

5. We are His children
Romans 8: 15 For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!” Galatians 4: 4 But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, 5 so that He might redeem those who were under [the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. 6 Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” 7 Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God.

6. Transformational worship
II Corinthians 3:17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.