Whats an orphan

mentality?
Orphan is simply a term for the
feeling of being without a father.
Feeling alone without someone
else who cares enough to help.
Symptoms of an Orphan
Mentality
1. Hoarding: possessions, time, 12. Worried about tomorrow and the
position, relations. future.

2. Wishing you had more (envy and

13. Performance oriented.
greed).
14. Any fellowship with God is
3. Jealousy of what others have.
unstable.
4. Always fighting or your rights. 15. Can't take criticism.

5. Fearful of Gods wrath. 16. Lonely and feel isolated.

6. Seeing God as being harsh or
17. Feel like God is unfair.
cruel.
7. Always defensive. 18. Depressed and see no way out.

8. Feel like you are on the outside 19. Critical of parented and loved
looking end. children.

20. Feel unworthy to ask God for

9. Confused about who you are.
anything.
10. Feel neglected by God and the 21. Have difficulty receiving and giving
church. love.
11. Fearful of what others may see
22. Not relationship oriented.
in you.
 Some causes of an orphan
mentality
A. You were a childhood orphan in the flesh.
1. Your parents died when you were young.
2. Your parents gave you away when you were a baby.

B. You had parents who treated you as an orphan. "Fathers,

provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged"
(Colossians 3:21).

C. You may have received an orphan mentality through

generational curses.

D. An orphan mentality may have come through a word curse.

1. Someone may have jokingly stated you must have been
an orphan.
2. Someone deliberately mislead you to believe that you
were an orphan.
E. There may simply have been the enemy's intrusion into
 Luke 15:21

The son said to him, Father, I

21

have sinned against heaven and

against you.I am no longer
worthy to be called your son.
 Luke15:28-30

28
The older brother became angryand
refused to go in. So his father went out and
pleaded with him.29But he answered his
father, Look! All these years Ive been
slaving for you and never disobeyed your
orders. Yet you never gave me even a young
goat so I could celebrate with my
friends.30But when this son of yours who
has squandered your propertywith
prostitutescomes home, you kill the
fattened calf for him!
 Psalm 27:10(NET Bible)
10 Even if my father and mother
abandoned me,
the Lord would take me in.
 Romans 8:15-16
(CEV)
15 Gods Spirit doesnt make us
slaves who are afraid of him. Instead,
we become his children and call him
our Father.[b] 16 Gods Spirit makes
us sure that we are his children.
The Expressions of
FATHERS LOVE.
A. HE will never leave you!
 Deuteronomy 31:8,
The LORD himself goes before you
and will be with you;He will never
leave you nor forsake you."Do not
be afraid; do not be discouraged."
B. HE will give all your
needs.
 Philippians 4:19New
International Version (NIV)
19 And my God will meet all your
needs according to the riches of
his glory in Christ Jesus.
C. HE will give you access to all HIS
promise.
 2 Corinthians 1:20New
International Version (NIV)
20 For no matter how many
promises God has made, they
are Yes in Christ. And so
through him the Amen is
spoken by us to the glory of God.
D. HE made us a coheir with
CHRIST.
(What belongs to Jesus also
belongs to us.)
Romans 8:17New International
Version (NIV)
17 Now if we are children, then
we are heirsheirs of God and
co-heirs with Christ, if indeed
we share in his sufferings in
order that we may also share in
his glory.
E. HE give us the KINGDOM!
 Luke 12:32New International
Version (NIV)
32 Do not be afraid, little flock,
for your Father has been pleased
to give you the kingdom.
E.HE will protect us.
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What, then, shall we say in response to these things?If
God is for us,who can be against us?32He who did not
spare his own Son,but gave him up for us allhow will he
not also, along with him, graciously give us all
things?33Who will bring any chargeagainst those whom
God has chosen? It is God who justifies.34Who then is the
one who condemns?No one. Christ Jesus who diedmore
than that, who was raised to lifeis at the right hand of
Godand is also interceding for us.35Who shall separate us
from the love of Christ?Shall trouble or hardship or
persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or
sword?36As it is written:
For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered. [j]
37
No, in all these things we are more than
conquerorsthrough him who loved us.38For I am convinced
that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, [k
]
neither the present nor the future,nor any
powers,39neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all
creation, will be able to separate us from the love of
Godthat is in Christ Jesus our Lord.