Sunday, September 2, 2012

True Worshippers - In Spirit and Truth



In ancient times people understood that religion was about worship and not about education. It was therefore that an uneducated woman a Samaritan woman asked Jesus where they should worship. We read in
John 4:19 “The woman said to Him, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. 20“Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you people say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.” 21Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, an hour is coming when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall you worship the Father. 22“You worship that which you do not know; we worship that which we know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23“BUT AN HOUR IS COMING, AND NOW IS, WHEN THE TRUE WORSHIPERS SHALL WORSHIP THE FATHER IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. 24“GOD IS SPIRIT, AND THOSE WHO WORSHIP HIM MUST WORSHIP IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH.” Nowadays faith is about Bible knowledge, it is about education. It is not about true worship and WHAT GOD REQUIRES IS TRUE WORSHIPERS THAT WORSHIP HIM IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH and therefore Jesus said that the hour is come, the hour had come when Jesus came, that the true worshipers from then onward would worship the Father in Spirit and in truth. Why was that?  Because He would send them the HOLY SPIRIT to live in them, to help them to pray according to the will of God.
We cannot pray in Spirit and truth UNLESS we have the Holy Spirit abiding in us. And that is why Jesus sent the Holy Spirit to those who believe in Him and who obey Him. We read in Romans 8:26 Paul said “And in the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words; 27and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.” How does that work? That is when you get into intercessory prayer, when you spend time in the presence of God praying in Spirit and in truth and your spirit cries out to God. And your spirit goes into groaning you don’t know rightly what to pray but the Spirit of God comes and assists you to pray and it is then that the Holy Spirit is POURED OUT in a person’s heart and he starts praying in TONGUES that he himself does not understand. A Heavenly language that God gives to him. We read the Words of Paul in 1 Corinthians 14:2 “For one who speaks in a tongue does not speak to MEN, but to GOD; for no one understands, but IN HIS SPIRIT HE SPEAKS MYSTERIES.” When your spirit groans out to God. You don’t rightly know what to pray. You don’t know what the Spirit of God wants you to pray about but the Spirit of God that dwells in you prays with your spirit according to the will of God. That is why we NEED the HOLY SPIRIT in order TO WORSHIP IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH.
But nowadays people don’t worship they are on the level of the MIND, they never get into the SPIRIT and their spirit never UNIFIES with the SPIRIT OF GOD so that they can pray according to the will of God. That is why we need the Holy Spirit to be able TO PRAY IN THE SPIRIT. But people are not interested in that. Why do they not receive the Baptism in the Holy Spirit? Because they DO NOT PRAY! When the Holy Spirit was poured out the Apostles were waiting in the upper room and they were PRAYING they were WAITING on GOD. They were YEARNING for the SPIRIT OF GOD and then the Spirit of God came upon them. It is only when you SEEK GOD in INCESSANT PRAYER that the Spirit of God will come on you and come and live in you and ASSIST you to PRAY in SPIRIT and in TRUTH. Do you want to WORSHIP GOD IN SPIRIT and IN TRUTH? Then you NEED the HOLY SPIRIT because GOD wants WORSHIPERS who WORSHIP HIM IN SPIRIT and IN TRUTH.
May Jesus bless you.


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