Embracing Daughtership

I started reading Spiritual Slavery to Spiritual Sonship by Jack Frost recently after my squad mentor recommended it to me. I am wrecked literally every time I read it! It is so so good and what I need right now. My prayers over the last few months have been “Lord, help me to be secure in your love and at rest in your embrace. Show me more of who you are through a new lens and not project my hurt from past relationships onto you. Help me to know you for who you really are and therefore, know who I really am in you.”

 

Through Launch, a 5 day training we had before leaving for Costa Rica, the Lord showed me just how much of an orphan spirit I have. I got my whole squad to pray over me and I believe the Lord did a huge work of healing and freedom in my heart. Now I’m on the journey of walking out that freedom and displacing that orphan spirit to embrace the spirit of sonship. Quarantine is a great time for the Lord to start working this in me!

 

In the book, it lists 20 basic contrasts between the spirit of an orphan and the spirit of a son (or daughter). The first one was on the Image of God. 

 

Orphan spirit:

• See God as a Master to please
• Feel they must pray more, read the Word more, or work harder to earn God’s notice and favor
• They are often left with a feeling that there is something more they must do or put in order before God will be pleased with them
• Views God as not just Master, but taskmaster

 

Sonship:

• See God as a loving Father who accepts them unconditionally
• Know that unconditional love is never based upon the performance of the one receiving it, but upon the nature of the one giving it (WOW!!!)
• They don’t have to strive or act any certain way to “earn” God’s love.
• They are loved fully and completely just as they are

 

I was asking the Lord this morning to show me if I am walking in an orphan spirit, where specifically that orphan spirit came from, and how I can embrace being a daughter right now. He showed me that I am free indeed and that healing and freedom starts with re-thinking in my mind.. being transformed in my mind! It’s going to be a process for me to fully be walking in my “daughter-ship” because there are a lot of lies and deep rooted beliefs that He wants to uproot to plant His truth in my heart.

 

thinking, feeling, behaving

 

Romans 12:2 TPT

“Stop imitating the ideals and opinions of the culture around you, but be inwardly transformed by the Holy Spirit through a total reformation of how you think. This will empower you to discern God’s will as you live a beautiful life, satisfying and perfect in His eyes.”

 

The way you think influences how you feel. The way you feel influences how you behave. How you behave influences how you think.. It’s a cycle! The way to get out of a toxic cycle, starts with your thoughts. The other day it was raining here in Costa Rica as it does every day. I was watching the rain and the water pouring down the street in well worth paths. This is how our toxic thought patterns can be.

I faced huge abandonment and rejection issues in my childhood, which resulted in me having an orphan spirit. I had a fear of trusting, fear of rejection, and a fear of opening my heart to love again, because of all the pain that I endured. Those paths of thinking, feeling, and behaving were very well worn in my brain.

 

…..But thank God that there’s a way out!!!!

 

Our brains can literally create new pathways in our mind. Its called Neuroplasticity, which is the scientific term for the biblical “renewed mind.” These changes can actually show up on fMIR (functional MRI), which I think is so fascinating!

Although, digging new ruts and creating new pathways is hard work, it is so possible! Especially with the help of the Holy Spirit. He wants us to be healthy and whole and to fully take our place as His children. What ways do you need to correct your thinking and create new pathways in your mind? Good news… It is the work of the Holy Spirit in us as we are pressing into Him and reading His Word which transforms our mind. I am so thankful that He is so gentle and so kind. He is not rushing me in this process of re-learning and re-knowing Him. It is such a sweet sweet season with my Jesus and I pray it is for you too!