Adoption | Ps Sharron Jones

Hey, welcome to the City Point Church podcast.

Thanks for joining us. Every day is an opportunity to

take hold of, so we hope this message inspires you and builds

your faith, but it helps you have more of a God perspective

for your day. Enjoy.

And I need to realign myself. This prayer is core and at the

centre of every Jewish belief in the oneness of God.

This prayers pray resided twice a day and is central to the

Jewish monotheistic faith. And so I want us to reboot

ourselves and realign ourselves. In Jeremiah 31 three, the Lord

says of all of us, I have loved you with an everlasting love.

Therefore I have drawn you with my loving kindness.

I brought that Scripture last preach here and it's still for

you today for me today. It's still active today.

So here, O church, put your name in there.

Here, O the Lord God is 1. Here he is.

Here's Chris. And so, but the Lord has drawn

you over a long time. Some of you feel here that

you've been drawn and corded. I can feel it.

I can feel the original pain. I can feel.

And if I can feel it, you know that that's the Lord in me.

Yeah. I can feel the original wounding

and the original pain and then I can feel all the subsequent

secondary injuries and I can even feel the pain of your

hoping and and wanting it to end.

And God is saying to you today, he wants a response because it's

going to end. There's going to a closing of a

chapter, but we need to partner with God.

Amen. That word drawn means and it's a

progression. OK, God's brilliant, only he can

do it. And it's in the word.

Study the word because it's like he will blow you away and your

life will change. You will become this vessel that

is just yeah, anointed. And you're a change agent

everywhere. Drawn means to.

He will continue to develop you. He will continue to make you,

but he will stretch you. So he's like, I love being

developed. Yeah.

Pour in, pour in. Just keep going and walking

because then he's making you. And then you've hit, oh, he's

stretching me. Oh, he's pulling me.

Oh, he's extending me. And now he's deferring me on the

shelf. And now he's delaying me.

And now he's pouring me out of myself so that he can pour in.

He pours us from vessel to vessel.

But I'm letting him. I'm letting him.

I've got a relationship with the Lord.

So at times I'm going. This isn't great.

I'm not really thinking that I can trust you.

This is even hurting. Oh, Rach.

Yeah. God bless you, darling.

And then he sows us, Amen. And then he deploys us.

And then he can wield us in influence, like in war, like

authority can't cheat that process, Amen.

What? Why would we want to?

Yeah. And so let God do that.

You know, when John 418 says we, This is so quoted so often.

But here at our church today, there is No Fear in love,

because perfect love casts out all fear.

Our relationship with our God casts out all fear.

Amen. In Ephesians 6/3/16, God says, I

pray that He will grant you according to the riches of His

glory to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in your

inner being that Christ may dwell in your hearts through

faith that being rooted, say it being being you're on journey.

You'll get to a place where it's now really working.

But we always have to keep an eye on it, OK.

And so you, being rooted and grounded and established in his

love, may be able to grasp with all the Saints, how wide, how

long, how high, how deep is the love of Christ, which surpasses

knowledge that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Isn't that your desire? Amen.

That word grasp. There is also a process.

Isn't God loving? Didn't he say I have loved you

with an everlasting love? He doesn't say right, you're

born again. No, now go and save the nations.

We need to grow and He gives us time, but we need to respond to

every step. Grass means initially to

perceive. I perceive that my God loves me

and that I am His, that my beloved is mine and I am His.

And I receive that. I perceive it.

I receive it and now lay hold of it, and now I seize it.

Because you're becoming powerful and an influencer and the

devil's like, the devil's like, I don't like you.

And so you might be getting pushed back.

It's OK. You are rooted and grounded and

established and you will not be shaken.

Amen. You know how high and wide and

deep is the love of God? For you the love of God means

protection and safety, provision and and and comfort and

everything that you need so to perceive, receive, lay hold of,

seize and capture by force and possess it, possess it, stand on

it, on the rock in Jesus name. Remember I bought this scripture

Zechariah 912 calling God, calling to us still.

Please return to your stronghold, you prisoner of

hope. This very day I am declaring

that I will restore double to you.

Another version says come back to your place of safety all you

prisoners who still have hope and trust in the Lord.

For I promise this very day that I will repay you 2 blessings for

each of your troubles. This is ABBA Father speaking to

us. ABBA Father, a good father.

Jesus called the Father. Come on, good.

He called him good. When I'm in Israel and I'm

ministering as you just in the communities and everywhere you

go, you little hear, you kid, hear little kids go ABBA, ABBA.

And I go, oh, oh, they're calling their father.

We say, dad, hey, dad. And they ABBA, ABBA.

And it's like, oh, it just does something to you.

Amen. And so this is Paul speaking.

So in one Corinthians 16-8 to 11, Paul is addressing something

that is hindering a person's ministry, but hindering their

life as well. And as Paul speaking and he says

he's he's talking, he's writing a letter and he's saying, I'm

going to come to you and I may spend the winter with you and I

will stay on at Ephesus until Pentecost because I perceive, I

receive and I see a great door of effective ministry and work

has opened to me. But there are many adversaries,

many things that are opposing that, many things that are

trying to stop that. So in that context of there is

just this incredible thing happening now, but particularly

in the future, that there is a threat to it.

There's always a threat to it, but God makes a way, Amen.

Because he is God Almighty, isn't he?

And so in that context, he now addresses something in the

church. It's everywhere in this world.

It's always been here because it's a part of the fall.

But we as the church are the ones, we are the part of the

solution, not a part of the problem.

So he says when Timothy comes, see to it that he has nothing to

fear. Say nothing to fear, nothing to

fear. When Timothy comes to you, see

to it that he has nothing to fear while he is with you.

For he is carrying on the work of the ministry of the Lord,

just as I am. Like Paul would come to a church

and they go, the apostle Paul's here and there'd be honour and

respect and and everything. And then when Timothy comes, but

he's just like Paul, they may treat him a different way.

Yeah. And so he goes.

Paul goes on to say no one then should treat Timothy with

contempt. There's the anointing in this

place. Don't worry if it gets really

quiet, we don't need to hype anything up.

We need to let Lord, the Lord, do whatever he wants to.

Lord, come and do whatever you want to.

Amen. Yeah.

We don't like sometimes we don't like the silence.

Sometimes we don't like that the anointing comes and the

anointing is powerful in this place and he, the Holy Spirit

will settle on you because there are peoples who in this church

whose life has been affected by contempt in Jesus name, Amen.

He said no one should treat him with contempt.

Send him away in peace that he may return to me.

So there is a blockage. There may be already a blockage

for Timothy as it's like Timothy's on the bill.

Oh, I might not come to church. Oh, it's just Timothy.

But if Paul was on the bill, everyone's, there's no chairs.

And it's like that's got to stop.

That's got to stop in every sector of life.

Amen. I know you're with me.

Different word, isn't it? The word contempt in that

context means hold on, OK? It means despised, it means

rejected. It means disrespected, deemed as

unworthy and of little value, worthless.

Let's discard that. Let's discard that person.

Let's throw them away. Let's snub them, disapprove of

them, exclude them. Let's disdain them.

And even let's mock them. Let's talk about them.

Let's let's, you know, slander them.

This, this will 'cause something to stop and I will come and give

this word and then go away. OK, well, thank God until she

comes back again. But this, this word needs to be

preached. This word needs to go out.

This is contempt means to withhold from a person or

something beyond just Jew. That's in God's word.

It means to neglect. And in that context, the word

neglect means to make an orphan, to make that person feel like an

orphan. It brings division, it draws, it

destroys unity. It's insulting, humiliating,

it's mean. It's it's to hate without a

cause. Who else was hated without a

cause? Jesus Amen.

The person's experience of being made in contempt is what Paul's

addressing. They become fearful.

Their spirit is broken. Their heart is broken.

Their mind is in torment. They are distressed.

They are isolated, lonely, invisible.

They become independent. They become clingy.

They become people, pleasers. Oh, come on.

They become performers, perfectionists.

They become competitive, comparing.

Do we want this in our family? Do we?

No. We want this in our church, our

workplace. No.

This is a part of the fall. It's got no place here.

Got no place in my heart. I got no right to held anything

or anybody in contempt. All the anointings here, all the

anointings here, it it, it's an accusational spirit that causes

division. It causes that person to be

vulnerable and to be a victim, to loop around in victim.

It becomes they, they live in obsessive they, they develop

approval addiction, affirmation addiction and inclusion

addiction, which is now the world calls FOMO, fear of

missing out. The world knows this and at

times we need to hear this in our world.

There's, we know it in, in the situation of contempt of court,

right? We've, they still use it, but

you can't be in contempt of court.

It refers to the behaviour that disrespects or undermines the

authority and dignity and integrity of a court process.

It can involve disobeying court orders or disrupting court

proceedings or even interfering with the administration of

justice. It is a big deal.

There is contempt of law. And now we're sort of going at a

macro level, coming down to an individual level.

There can be whole communities that all gather together because

misery loves company. Same, same like, attracts like.

And so contempt of law is lawlessness, criminality and

then a seared conscience. Yeah.

So we have, we can. And we see that there is

contempt at work that people just sort of like, treat it as

lightly. I can turn up late.

I can flog all this, all the stationary.

You know, I can leave early, then I can lie about it.

We have contempt for the government.

Yeah. It's we're so fickle.

We, we elect a new, new government.

We're like, and within two weeks, we're like rotten

government. And then we have contempt of

life, we have contempt for our family.

Sometimes we have contempt for others.

And we can even have contempt of God that what he says and what

he asks us to do. We just sort of muck around with

it and it's God's. Don't worry, this will, this

will shift. OK, this won't go down, but we

are going down again into the valley of the shadow of of death

because it will block it will stop an individual, a family.

But the most destructive of all that God is addressing is

contempt of self. We can have that.

I am nothing, I am worthless. And this is a carry on from the

ministry that God has called us to do this weekend.

And so we are saying, Lord, do whatever you want to and it's

causes an orphan spirit and this spirit whispers or shouts you

are not enough. It encourages you to strive and

drives you out into the wilderness to isolate and it

makes you believe that you don't belong.

This is a lie in the name of Jesus and we know it.

This is not your portion. God does not hold you at a

distance in contempt. He draws US, doesn't he?

Do not partner with this lie and this stronghold.

Amen. Whenever God in His Word calls

it a spirit, it affect. It can be a evil spirit that

possesses or oppresses, but it affects our breathing because

the word there is pneuma breath. And when we live in fear and

when we live in pain and when we live lonely and isolated

wandering around in the wilderness, we it affects our

breathing and we're hardly breathing and we're like a

smoking flax. But today the Lord not, maybe

not in a shout out mighty way. Don't underestimate that, let

God be God. I can feel what the Holy Spirit

is doing here today and I just need that.

You won't get a preacher here that will hype anything up.

I'll I'll get out the way. I'll let God do what he wants to

do Amen. Do not partner with this lie.

You are a child of God. You are fully known, fully

loved, and fully accepted. Repeat after me.

I am fully known, loved and accepted.

Amen. In according to your faith.

According to your faith, so be it.

And according to your coming back today and saying God's

dealing with this because it's stopping me and it's causing

problems and God's closing a chapter once and for all today,

the orphan spirit says there are reasons why God doesn't love me

and why he does. He doesn't do that.

He just loves. Amen.

Because he is love. But God loves you for for no

reason at all. Oh, come on.

It's just incredible. The orphan spirit causes you to

feel insecure and rejected. If you have been feeling

unworthy, unloved, overlooked, and in need of constant

validation and affirmation, you are experiencing you are

struggling with an orphan spirit.

The orphan spirit will cause you to strive.

If you have a feeling like you are never good enough.

It will cause you to pursue perfection, people pleasing,

striving, and depending on yourself.

It will cause you to perform posture.

God was bringing that word in that we posture ourselves before

God. There's a posturing all this

that I'm going to unpack very quickly.

Doesn't work. I'm just going to say it.

It doesn't work. Yeah.

And today it's got to be chucked.

It's the one that we hold in contempt.

Chuck it in the bin. Chuck it out outside.

Evicted. Never going to live like this

again. Never going to waste another

day. Not another day with this lie of

the enemy. Amen.

You will. It will cause you to prove to

others that you are worthy. Rather than trusting God's

provision and His protection and His love and grace.

The orphan spirit causes you to operate in fear and anxiety.

It will have you in deep fear of abandonment, dread.

Here it comes, Here it comes, it always does.

In Jesus name I break that off your life.

In Jesus name, I break that off your life.

Let signs and wonders follow the preaching of your word.

In the name of Jesus. We cry ABBA father.

We cry ABBA Father in Jesus name.

Sometimes you have to get the the IT says that that the the

violent. There's a violence in our that

we take it by force. Amen.

We seize it back. We don't go through the process

and we get to a point where we just say it's enough, enough of

this. I cannot live like this.

Life's not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

I am in, I am in my early 60s and I'm proud.

I, I'm proud to be this, this age now because I just think,

Lord, you keep me alive with all my stupid things that I did.

You kept me alive and now I can just spend my life.

I'm never going to retire so I'm going to keep well I go to the

gym now I've got 0 pain in this body, 0 pain zero, 60 whatever

stiffness. OK God, I was like getting out

of bed like this and God said the Holy Spirit move your body

and I and I'm like. And so I'm now at the gym doing

leg presses and shoulder presses and then I just do my own thing

and I've got 0 pain and at times it's like, you know, practical,

emotional and spiritual. Amen.

I've got a motive because I don't want to go over because

Pastor Graham sits there like like this.

Anyway. It will cause you to have deep

abandonment of failure. You'll overwork.

You'll over perform to earn approval.

The orphan spirit will cause you to feel a lack of belonging,

like you could be in a room like this and you just feel like an

orphan, that you can't connect, you can't attach some of it.

It's from your historic family experience and it will have you

struggling, feeling that you can't even connect with God or

people in church or even your own family or community, and a

constant feeling that people don't want you around, even your

loved ones, even in church. There's rubbish.

That's a lie but there are reasons why you are in that and

God knows. Amen.

God's not putting a Band-Aid on this.

He's healing it. He's making it new.

He's setting you free, making you free.

The orphan spirit makes you feel jealous and you compare

comparison. If you are envying others

success and blessing and relationships due to due to a

lack of a sense of lack and poverty that you always get the

dregs. But you know what God's word

says that the last shall be first.

Amen. The last shall be first and some

of you need to prophecy that, but not out of an angst, not out

of heat, not out of brokenness, out of faith and out of

holiness. Posturing and positioning

yourself that the last shall be first.

He he saves the the the best wine to the last in Jesus name.

The orphan spirit prevents you from trusting God's love and it

will have you viewing God as distant, harsh, conditional in

His love rather than a loving ABBA father.

The orphan spirit prevents you from asking God and other people

for help, will drive you out in incredible independence.

I ended up like this and God, just, I, it was survival mode.

I had to look after myself 'cause there was nobody else to

depend on and and God didn't have a hard time.

I had a hard time letting that go because I'd got in touch with

just that. Oh, I can't stand this feeling.

I just it's just the pain is unbelievable and and the panic

like I'm I'll literally die if I don't look after myself and it

will have you manipulate by using your emotions in any

setting and therefore it doesn't work because what you're looking

for love and and inclusion you're driving people away.

You may as well spray yourself with fly spray.

I did for years. It will cause you using anger

and distress and crying to get help instead of just asking for

help, asking for help. You don't have to ask everybody.

Go to a trusted person and just say I need a little bit of

confidential private help. And that person like, you know,

I do that. My doors always open.

But, but if you sort of start to be clingy and, and, and text me

at 2:00 AM, I'm like, I'm your Mama and OK.

And I, I am your Emma, not your Emma, but I will help you.

There are so many that will. If you have rooted in the, if

you are rooted in the fear that you're never good enough,

causing you to believe that there is a need to prove

yourself and yourself worth. You have an orphan spirit.

I'm not saying you're possessed. You just have a, you just have

a, it's always there. It's always there.

It's going today. The orphan spirit causes you to

have a scarcity and poverty mentality.

It will have you believing that there is never enough to go

around, not enough positions in the church.

Not never, never get the invite. Don't buy into the lie of self

pity. Got run into your ABBA?

Run into your ABBA with this brokenness as it's rubbing salt

in your historic wound and let him do that work.

Let him do a reversal. That's what he's doing today.

If there's if anyone has something, then it means that

there is less for you. Not enough love to go around,

not enough opportunities. OK, not enough money, not enough

friends. Always afraid that you're going

to run out and miss out. The orphan causes spirit, causes

you to use your emotions to manipulate.

If you call, it will cause you to believe that you.

If you speak plainly, you'll be rejected.

Now, that does happen. We've got our eyes wide open.

All this stuff happens. Paul's addressing it.

Stop treating Timothy like he's nothing, OK?

And it will have you using emotions as a way to passively

or passive aggressively or aggressively communicate to get

your needs met. What you're doing is driving

everyone away. You're already alone.

You already feel like an orphan, and now you're making it worse.

I can preach this because this has been my journey.

Amen. And so I'm giving this to you as

a gift. Amen.

The orphan spirit is a spiritual stronghold in your mind, in your

emotions. It's making your body sick, your

social health. What health?

OK. And so the enemy wants to keep

you in a realm of the natural, convincing you that your

problems are just in the natural and not spiritual.

He will keep you fighting, blaming, accusing against flesh

and blood. He'll keep it grounded on the

ground because he knows there's going nowhere.

Soon as you lift it up and take it to the heavenlies and

surrender and open and come back to say ABBA Father, ABBA Father,

Amen. It starts to change.

We fight at home with our spouse, children, family, at

work, boss, everybody changing jobs, changing jobs.

There's always that person. They'll always be the person.

At some point, it's got to stop. You're working with the system

at school, teachers, government and church.

Amen. They can't be everywhere.

I know they are. OK.

I'm not silly. I know this does happen because

we live in a fallen world. But there when you are carrying

this, it's all you see. You are fixated on it.

Amen. And it's torment and it's pain.

God wants us to believe and grow and pray and progress and do

spiritual battle and warfare in our authority in Christ.

So that when contempt does happen to you, when abuse and

when accusation and when when it does happen to you, you do have

a support person that you can say, oh, man, this is this is

really I'm in a real attack at the moment and I just need a

hug. McKay Like, I'd go to Pastor

Rachel. I wouldn't go to a guy.

OK. And so you're just keeping this

appropriate. And so I'd go Pastor Rachel and

I'd say just give me a hug because that's a part of our

life as well. And then, you know, I need just

some emotional pray for me. And then I get up and I deal

with it in the Spirit. It may still continue.

I don't care. It's dealt with and I keep going

until it submits itself. Everything bows its knee to the

name of Jesus. God wants us to walk.

God wants us to walk in a spirit of adoption.

This church has got a mantle for adoption, even practically OK,

you're you're adopting all over, even in my family, OK.

And God can trust this church. This is a message for this

church. And you've already been

preaching this out. Maybe not like this, but that's

OK. So John 1418, God said Jesus

said I will not leave you as orphans, I will come to you

often in that context means fatherless, but it means

comfortless, it means bereaved, it means pain, something has

died. So it's not literally an orphan.

It can be but or you might be pushed out of your family or

pushed out of somewhere and it is literal, but it causes death

and blockage to your dreams, your hope, your vision, your

abundant life, and your relationship with your father.

Psalm 655-B says he is a father to the fatherless.

Ephesians 15 says He predestined us for adoption as sons and

daughters through Jesus Christ, according to his pleasure of His

will, just because it gives him pleasure, just because God is

love. Hebrews 10/19 says so.

Dear brothers and sisters, we can now boldly enter heaven's

most holy place because of the blood of Jesus.

The spirit of adoption. Romans 815 says, For you have

not received a spirit of slavery and an orphan spirit leading you

to fear, but you have received the spirit of adoption, sons and

daughters by which we cry. ABBA Father, ABBA Father, ABBA

father. There is an anointing on this

ABBA, ABBA. There is a cry from an orphan

that's like my dash hound dog at the moment when I leave the

room, it goes and she's like 14 weeks old because she loves me.

And she's like, you know, And so there is a cry, there is a

constant crying and it might not come out your mouth, but it, it

needs to come out. It needs to be released.

It needs to be not in sort of any disruptive way here.

But at some point if God leads you as you get on your face with

him and that spirit and all the pain from that comes out.

When Joseph, when Joseph was, things were corrected for him.

He let out a whale that the whole palace heard.

The whole palace heard. Just the years of compounded

living with this thing. Let it go, cry out.

Let it go and then cry out. ABBA, ABBA, ABBA.

There's a come on. ABBA, ABBA, say it.

ABBA, ABBA. I don't care if we don't have

any music. OK, This is going to happen and

there's an anointing, there's a miraculous anointing, ABBA ABBA.

And until you believe it, until it actually sinks in and it's

now rooted and established and you and God closes the chapter

and you walk out this place and leave this place today changed

forever in Jesus name. Come boldly, come with faith,

come with all your, with everything that you are because

God is just waiting, but he wants a response.

He's just waiting. You're already in, but you don't

believe it. And so now this morning it's

going to change. The characteristics of the

spirit of adoption is rest. Instead of striving as I read

these out, say just breathe in under your breath.

I have a rest. I have the spirit of adoption.

I'm a son, I am a daughter. I have rest instead of striving,

confidence and boldness instead of fear.

I am brave, I am courageous. I am not timid, I am not

intimidated. Amen.

That may be happening to you, but this is a faith step.

You need to declare it. That word cry ABBA is the action

of a prophet, not prophesying something to come.

Prophesying like a prophet declaring, declaring it's

already happened. So we cry ABBA, ABBA like that.

Belonging instead of rejection, peace instead of torment.

Trust instead of independence. Comparison, competition and

control. Protection instead of being

unsafe and at risk. Joy instead of pain.

Obedience instead of sacrifice. Just like telling yourself, you

know that lies of if I just perform, if I just do all this

sacrifice, look what I'm doing. Just God says, you know,

obedience is better than sacrifice.

Provision and inheritance and blessing.

Generosity instead of poverty. Balance and boundaries instead

of living in crisis and chaos and living in risk.

Identity in Christ instead of feeling like an impostor.

The world calls that impostor syndrome.

You are not treated with contempt by God.

Hear that. You are not treated with

contempt by God. The prodigal son had an orphan

spirit all through the Bible. We do, you know, we're, we're,

we were fallen and therefore we were removed from God.

And then God's design was that we chose him.

He always chose us, but we've always had this.

So the prodigal son went and went off and ruined his life.

And then he came to his senses. But he is the orphan spirit

kicking in. I am no longer worthy to be

called the son. Oh God, fix that quick.

And he put it in his word so that we could preach it and

preach it and preach it. Because when he got up and said,

I am going to do my part in fixing this.

So when he got up and went to his father, but while he was

still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with

compassion. And he ran to his son, and he

threw his arms around him and kissed him.

So as you play that song, we can do things a little bit

differently. I believe we are going to go out

with a joy, Chris and rage. OK?

I believe that the the worship team will come back and that we

will rejoice in this work. OK, Don't, don't be sort of like

the oh, I don't feel it, I'm not feeling it.

No, don't, don't do that. God's bigger than that.

Amen. He's shifting something within

you. But I want you as you listen to

this, the words of this song will be on the screen.

I want you to start saying ABBA, ABBA.

I am your son. I am your daughter.

I am your son. Let that cry come out because

what happens in when we use our faith like Pastor Mel said that

faith without works doesn't work.

OK, But as we start to in faith say I believe, I believe you are

my father. I believe that you accept me.

Something will shift and you'll get in touch with the cry of the

orphan spirit, and then you will believe it will be established.

Are you having trouble with that song?

Yeah. All right.

Let's just wait. God wants to do something.

Will you let him? Yeah.

We'll do something different. Lord God.

Hallelujah. Bless you, Lord.

Holy Spirit. Calm, Holy Spirit.

Calm. Lord.

We will let you. Yes.

Stand up. There's people responding.

Come on. He's calling you.

I'm standing. Lie down, stand up.

This is a this is an operating theatre today.

Confidence. My adoption song.

Rebuke it Spirit blood of Jesus. Now he doesn't.

Hallelujah. I'll sing in confidence.

I adoption song. You are my family.

I belong. I belong.

Hallelujah. Confidence.

My adoption song. Nothing's going to take it away.

You don't have to strive. I carry your name.

Hallelujah, Nothing's going to take.

Nothing's going to take it away. I carry your name.

I carry your name. Yes, we are.

Thank you, Lord. I seize my inheritance.

I claim I receive it. I seize it.

I run after it. No one's going to take it.

Nothing's going to take it. Sing it out in confidence.

Hallelujah, Hallelujah. Thank you, Holy Spirit, powerful

Holy Spirit. Just stay standing.

It's just going to play.