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leaving home and becoming destitute before he came to his senses, returned to his father, and embraced the sonship that had always been his. As for the older son, Scripture gives no indication that he ever reached that point.
    Because we all were born with an orphan heart, we all are subject to our own mission from birth. Think about it—is a 2 year old subject to his father’s mission or to his own mission? What about a 12 year old or an 18 year old? Our orphan heart problem stems all the way back to the Garden of Eden, where our first human parents were deceived by lucifer, the original spiritual orphan.
    Lucifer did not start out as an orphan, however. He began in beauty and splendor, surrounded by the glory and love of Father God:
    You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz and emerald, chrysolite, onyx and jasper, sapphire, turquoise and beryl. Your settings and mountings were made of gold; on the day you were created they were prepared. You were anointed as a guardian cherub, for so I ordained you. You were on the holy mount of God; you walked among the fiery stones. You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created till wickedness was found in you
(Ezekiel 28:13-15).
    Not only was lucifer continually in the presence of God, he was also the worship leader in Heaven. But that was not enough; he wanted more. And in his greedy attempts to get more, lucifer lost everything. Isaiah vividly describes the disaster:
    How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations! You said in your heart, “I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain. I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.” But you are brought down to the grave, to the depths of the pit
(Isaiah 14:12-15).
    This powerful prophetic image of lucifer, or satan, also reveals his “job description”: to lay low or weaken the nations. How does he do it? By using the orphan heart to get us into orphan thinking.
    God is love. The Kingdom of Heaven is all about perfect love, joy, and peace with no fear, insecurity, or anxiety. Lucifer dwelt there in the beginning and reveled continually in God’s perfect love. At some point, however, something in lucifer desired to be subject no longer to God’s mission but to be dedicated to his own mission. Anytime we become subject to our own mission, separation goes to work. Lucifer subsequently lost the privilege of dwelling in the Father’s house of unconditional love and acceptance. He was separated from his Creator and from his home. As Isaiah says,
“Your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear”
(Isa. 59:2).
    Lucifer became the ultimate spiritual orphan. Separated from his original home, he became resentful toward anyone who enjoyed intimacy with Father God, particularly those human beings God had created in His own image. Because he no longer walked in Father’s mission of love, lucifer began to compete for a place of recognition, position, and power.
    Jealousy drove lucifer to deceive Adam and Eve. The tool he used to cripple mankind and weaken the nations was orphan thinking. His strategy was to convince man to think the way he did—homeless and cut off from God’s love—and thereby weaken man to the point where he would give in to temptation and allow shame and fear to replace intimacy.
    Satan’s thoughts were,
I will do it my way. I will pursue the things that make me feel good and give me a sense of value and significance!
And because Adam and Eve bought into his orphan thinking, they, as well as we, have received his orphan heart as part of the “package deal.”
Trouble in Paradise
    Having failed in his bid to rule Heaven, lucifer lost his right to