Orphan Heart versus Rooted and Grounded in Love

An "orphan heart" is one that has it's roots not in love, acceptance, and security but in rejection, abandonment, fear, and insecurity.  In Ephesians 3:17-19 the Holy Spirit through Paul says, "so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith;and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God." Christ comes to live in our spirits when we are born again by receiving Him but for Christ to dwell in our hearts through faith is connected to us being rooted and grounded in love.  If we grew up in an environment of rejection, loneliness, fear, performance, image, or others where unconditional love is not the basis of relationship within a family then we are going to have some bad roots.  These roots are belief systems about our identity, worth, relationships, and how we function in life that are lies/curses/deception.  One author said "bad root, bad fruit".  Recently the Holy Spirit was giving me revelation into one of the most important times in our life to receive the truth about our identity, in the womb.  Modern scientific research is pointing to the reality that babies in the womb are affected by their mother's choices, words, attitudes, and even the environment.  The start of life, conception, is also very important in terms of a child's development of their identity, in the Hebrew culture one of the most important times to bless, communicate the truth of the child's identity based on what God says, is at conception.  The Holy Spirit recently exposed in my own heart, the very roots of the "orphan heart" as being conception to birth, when the three powerful roots of abandonment, rejection, and hopelessness came in as my identity.  Many would question how we could know this and that this seems strange.  In 1 Corinthians 2:10-11 the Holy Spirit says through Paul, "For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.  For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God."  So the spirit of a man which is united to the Holy Spirit knows the thoughts of a man, so we can even discern if a person was cursed, negative words and circumstances were around the child, or if there was blessing (life-giving environment of love and acceptance).  While in the world we are concerned about the physical formation, heartbeat, development, and finally birth of a child, the spiritual climate that a child is developing in a mother's womb is very important.  There are over 70 references to the womb in the Old and New Testaments, many of these verses talk about God actually forming us or knitting us together in our mother's womb.  If it is not that important why is God so intentional that Jesus be blessed in His mother's womb, blessed by Elizabeth, then Simeon and Anna blessed Jesus just after His birth.  This was to affirm and legitimize Jesus because it was God's original design that all children be blessed at each of the 7 stages of development throughout their life (from conception to old age).  Blessing is the good words of affirmation, love, acceptance, purpose, identity, and destiny that speak life into us as we grow.  The Holy Spirit showed me the importance of blessing when He took to me Genesis 1 and revealed that humans were created in the image and likeness of God but were not empowered to rule and reign till after they had been blessed by God.  The Holy Spirit asked the question, "What follows blessing?"  Then the answer came, "Fruitfulness and multiplication" just as it says in Genesis 1:28.  Blessing is not just an nice spiritual word, this was actually at the center of all Creation in the beginning, it is foundational for all of life.  This is why Paul seems to literally explode with revelation in Ephesians 1:3, when he says " who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ."  The heavens were opened up and poured out on you so you could receive every spiritual blessing, may our minds be renewed and healing brought to our hearts so we can receive.

Blessings,
Bret