Faith Bits with ALI

Embracing His Love: Moving from Orphan to Child of God

• Alicia Graham • Season 1 • Episode 73

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Ever wondered why you struggle to feel loved despite knowing God loves you? This Faith Bit explores the powerful connection between identity crisis and the inability to receive love. When we operate from an "orphan mentality," we create invisible barriers that block God's affection from truly penetrating our hearts.

Rejection functions as fear at its core—fear of not being received, loved, accepted, or seen. Despite our deep desire for connection and belonging, these fear-based thought patterns sabotage our ability to experience the intimacy we crave. The solution isn't complicated, but it requires courage: intentional surrender of our will to allow His love to flood every area of our lives, including hidden wounds and childhood trauma. As scripture reminds us, "perfect love casts out all fear," providing the antidote to rejection that has kept us isolated.

Through a powerful prayer of forgiveness and surrender, this episode guides listeners toward breaking free from rejection's grip. By confronting lie-based thought patterns, forgiving those who planted seeds of rejection, and aligning with God's perspective of our worth, we can transition from orphanhood to sonship. This shift doesn't just heal old wounds—it transforms our entire approach to relationships, allowing us to finally receive the love we've always longed for. Ready to embrace your true identity as a beloved child of God? This Faith Bit might be the key that unlocks the door to freedom from rejection once and for all.

Speaker 1:

Hey everyone, welcome back to Faith Bits with Allie. I'm your host, allie, with your daily Faith Bit, I just want to say that you are loved, and I can't say this enough, but I think it's really important for us to embrace this daily. You are loved. God loves you so much. Your identity is wrapped up in Him, and the reason why you're struggling to know who you are is because you may not have embraced the love that he has for you.

Speaker 1:

A lot of times when we deal with struggling to receive God, that's tied to an orphan mentality. A lot of times when we struggle to receive God, that's tied to an orphan mentality, these are seeds of rejection, and so you're unable to receive the love of God. You're unable to receive intimacy, even though it is your desire. You want to be loved, you want to be part of the family, and yet you're unable to. Rejection really is fear. It's the fear of not being received, the fear of not being loved, the fear of not being accepted, the fear of not being seen, and so this is why we have to embrace a lifestyle of His love. We have to choose to intentionally surrender our will and allow his love to engulf every area of our lives, the hidden wounds, the childhood trauma. We need to let it go, cast our cares to him and allow him to heal it so that we can be flooded with his love. The bible says perfect love casts out all fear. It's time to embrace that perfect love and allow rejection to leave and come out of that orphan mentality.

Speaker 1:

Let me pray for you, lord, even right now. We forgive those who've wronged us. We forgive ourselves for not allowing ourselves to heal, for not allowing ourselves to grow closer to God, or the people that he sent us God. We just forgive. He sent us God. We just forgive. And we decide today to lay down our cares to you, lord. Thank you for, even now, removing the hindrances, even words, that were released over us from the womb. God, we thank you for removing those word curses and we come into agreement with what you speak over us. Our identity is wrapped up in what you say, god. So thank you. We lay it down at your feet. We are more than enough, we are loved and we choose to be intentional about embracing your love. And so every lie, every thought pattern that the enemy keeps sending our way, to keep us rooted in fear, rejection and orphanhood, may that be uprooted now and we come into a place of sonship, being the sons and daughters of God that we've been called to be. In Jesus' name, I pray. Amen, peace, love and blessings.