Betrayal is never from someone who is very far. It is always from someone who is close...your friend, someone who you trust and confide in.

Betrayal - Greek: Paradidomi - To give into the hands of another...to give over to one's power or use. When you betray someone, you abandon them or give them over to a circumstance, you leave them in the lurch, you stab them in the back, or leave them open to attack or assault and do nothing.

Judas is named as one of the 6 greatest betrayers in history. In every one of those scenarios, the people who handed others to be betrayed had it within their power to protect or stop something from happening...but they didn't.

As the world evolves and things happen, we would see the rise of betrayal in the earth. 2Tim 3: 1-4

In Church, even when we don't expect that to happen, betrayal does happen in church.

When betrayal happens in church, what do we do? How do we treat the betrayer?

Betrayal stems from us loving ourselves selfishly...at the root of betrayal is selfishness.

Gethsemane meaning - The oil press

When we're betrayed. we're in a place where there's pressing going on. God allows us to go through a season where He sifts out things out of our lives and we go through a purifying process...painful, but if we go through it well, it brings out good in the end.

If you've listened to this podcast series, pray these words from the depth of your heart.

God bless you.

An orphan spirit produces a performance mentality.

We need to be very careful so we don't allow ourselves become performance people.

When we spend time running after things, there is never a finish line in view.

When we are active and always busy running after things, sometimes it is because we may be either running away from the issues that come up to us when we're quiet or feel obligated to perform because that the way we feel loved or accepted.

God designed you for relationship...He wants you to relate with Him and love the people around you, so you can be whole.

Signs that someone is Insecure or has an Orphan Mentality.

1. Orphans are extremely defensive. They stand their ground and refuse to admit they have an issue.

2. They play the "blame game". They believe nothing is wrong with them...they're fine.

3. They find fault in everything

4. They have a strong desire to be right all the time.

5. They have a "performance" mentality

Fear. An emotional response that is induced by perceived threat. Fear can lead us to hide , to run away or to freeze in our shoes. Fear is foreign to our nature but when you've been an orphan, fear is what comes to you naturally because you don't have a sense of security.

Perfect love casts out all fear because fear has torment. As Christians, as we grow in understanding how much God loves us, it gives us a greater sense of security.

If you're going to journey from a place of being an orphan to a place of wholeness, you have to allow yourself to be loved by the people God has placed around you.

God uses your friends to love you. He loves us through His word, but God loves us through people.

When we carry an orphan spirit, we live in fear. It could be fear of rejection, abandonment or just a phobia for forming close relationships.

Sometimes when we put up walls around us, we forget that the same walls that keep others out, imprison us.

Its hard to pour out God's love to a deep dimension if you haven't journeyed there yourself. You can only give what you have.

It is so important for us as people to deal with any kind of emotional baggage or any kind of experience we've had that has allowed us to walk the path of being emotional orphans.

In John 10:10 Jesus says that He has come that we may have life and have it more abundantly. That abundance of "life" is not just spiritual, it is physical, emotional, psychological and financial.

If you truly desire to experience the abundance that God has, if you really desire to come into your own and walk in the beauty of all that God is for you and for your generation, you need to go to your broken places emotionally and be healed.

Pride stinks...God cannot tolerate pride.

God cannot do anything with you if you are proud...He only uses yielded, submitted and surrendered vessels.

If you're going to be the vessel that God will use in this end time, if you're going to survive the onslaught of the enemy and overcome in the battles of life, you need to be submitted.

God is raising soldiers...but a distinct mark that is going to be upon those He will use is Humility.

God is calling you to surrender your life, your thoughts, your ways, your manipulations and scheming. Give them up!

When negative situations & circumstances begin to occur around you, employ the force of Joy.

Always watch your joy level.

When you start to see yourself get depleted in joy, then it's time to begin to worship; it's time to be filled with thanksgiving & praise.