THE SPIRIT OF ADOPTION

Diana Larkin • 19 November 2024

November 19, 2024

THE SPIRIT OF ADOPTION

ROMANS 8:15 (NASB) For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!”

ROMANS 8:15 (TPT) And you did not receive the “spirit of religious duty,” leading you back into the fear of never being good enough. But you have received the “spirit of full acceptance,” enfolding you into the family of God. And you will never feel orphaned, for as He rises up within us, our spirits join Him in saying the words of tender affection, “Beloved Father!”

“How do the CRITICAL religious spirit, JEALOUSY, and SELFISH AMBITION find a place in a Believer’s heart? Most often it is because this person has NEVER FULLY RECEIVED THE SPIRIT OF ADOPTION that was purchased for them through the Blood of My Son. Many of you have been called to be FORERUNNERS of the Kingdom Age, and Church leaders, family, and friends have not UNDERSTOOD who you were called to be and what you were called to do. You were not RECEIVED, NURTURED, or ENCOURAGED, and this gave a PLACE for an ORPHAN SPIRIT to come into your heart. This ORPHAN SPIRIT makes you feel ALL ALONE, like you have to MAKE YOUR OWN WAY, and PROVE to others your VALUE and WORTH. Even if I give you a ministry, you feel THREATENED if someone else has a LARGER following and platform. You can fall into the TRAP of trying to PROMOTE yourself and being CRITICAL and JEALOUS of others whom you feel threatened by. If you struggle with these things, realize you are listening to an ORPHAN SPIRIT and not THE SPIRIT OF ADOPTION, which FREES you from COMPARISON and COMPETITION. Here is the way to FREEDOM and FULL ACCEPTANCE in the spirit of adoption: FORGIVE those who did not nurture or promote you, REPENT for listening to the ORPHAN SPIRIT, and ask that THE SPIRIT OF ADOPTION would FLOW into all the places where you felt IGNORED, WOUNDED, and ABANDONED. As you FULLY receive THE SPIRIT OF ADOPTION, you will be SECURE in what I’ve called you to do and be—no more COMPARING or COMPETITION but a GLORIOUS SECURITY in knowing you are a BELOVED Son or Daughter called to serve the King in FREEDOM and in FULFILLING the scroll of destiny written just for you. Receive THE SPIRIT OF ADOPTION and CAST OFF the weights that ENTANGLE you and prevent UNITY and FRUITFULNESS. Enter into the FULNESS of who you were created to be.”

Diana Larkin

A Watchman’s Journal

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