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WORSHIP IN SPIRIT
INTRODUCTION
Jesus teaches us two cardinal requirements that must be present
in our worship if it is to be
acceptable to the father. In John 4, by Jacobs well the savior
interacts with a woman ofSamaria and the topic of worship springs
up. The woman requested to know the right place
to go and worship and Jesus rather went ahead to teach her how
to worship the father and
not necessarily where to worship at.
He laid emphasis on the fact that a time is coming when place
would not be of importance
as was strictly adhered to by the people of that time; but that
worship would be done in a
more excellent way to meet Gods standard.
Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers
will worship the Father
in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the
Father seeks. God is spirit, and
his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth. (John
4:23-24 NLT)
The two key requirements are IN SPIRIT and IN TRUTH.
IN SPIRIT:
To talk about worship being IN SPIRIT, I may like to explain
based on these points
It must be done in harmony with the Holy Spirit With the
consciousness of the nature of God (spirit)
It must be spiritual and done out of revelation
Firstly, the Holy Spirit of God must be in the lead of our
worship. He serves as the tour
guide to the very throne room of the father. He therefore
directs our course to make sure
that we are on the right path. We lose our way to a true worship
experience any time we
forsake Him and try to do things our own way. Our services
become full of human
ideologies and less of God. The Spirit of God knows the mind of
the father and can show us
the right way to worship the father. But God has revealed it to
us by his Spirit. The Spirit
searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who among
men knows the thoughts
of a man except the mans spirit within him? In the same way no
one knows the thoughts of
God except the Spirit of God. We have not received the spirit of
the world but the Spirit who
is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given
us. (1 Cor. 2:10-12)
But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into
all truth. He will not
speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will
tell you what is yet to
come. (Jn. 16:13 NIV).
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From the above scriptures we see that we cannot worship God
without Holy Spirit.
Secondly, to be able to worship in spirit, we must have the
consciousness of the very nature
God in mind. God is Spirit (Jn 4:24). So to relate to Him in
worship must be doneaccording to His nature. We cannot therefore
possibly come to Him who is spirit in or with
the flesh. Thus He said let no flesh glory in my presence.
We must also be aware that man was made in the image and
likeness of God, so we are
spirit-beings, we have souls that reside in human bodies. With
this truth in mind, we cannot
have fellowship with our father in any acceptable way than in
the spirit.
The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's
children (Rom. 8:16)
As children of God, having the same likeness of the father-who
is Spirit, worshipping in
spirit should come to you naturally.
Lastly, worshipping in spirit may also mean we must be spiritual
and be in the spirit. We
must not dwell on external and physical ordinances but focus on
things of the spirit.
Worshipping in spirit must also stem from a revelation-truth of
who God is and that may be
achieved by a constant walking in the spirit.
Being in the spirit breaks the barriers to distance, place and
time. This means it cannot be
measured over space, limited to a particular place or done only
at a particular time. That is
why Jesus referred the Samaritan woman saying; a time was coming
when it would not be
necessary to go to Jerusalem or any mountain to be able to
worship the father.
Our worship is as a revelation of who the father is to us, as we
have come to know Him.
By reading Revelations chapter 4, we see a portrait of true
worship; where angels are
worshipping before the throne day and night. And to be able to
capture this truth of
heavenly worship, John had to have a revelation as he was in the
spirit.
In chapter 2 of Revelations 4 he wrote And immediately I was in
the spirit Unless you
are in the spirit worshipping God in spirit can be very
difficult if not impossible sometime.
To be in the spirit is a term used of being wholly in union with
the Holy Spirit and yieldedto Him. (Rev. 1:10). To worship God in
spirit, we must have a revelation of GOD, and when
that happens, our worship can flow naturally out of the heart.
Isaiah also had a vision in
chapter 6 of his book and he could also describe the worship
that was going on before the
throne in heaven.
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CONCLUSION
Whenever divinity meets humanity, men surrender and bow in
worship. Revelations are
caught in the spirit, by the spirit, through the spirit and with
the spirit. Even in Bible times,any time a person encountered God
or had a revelation of His supernatural power, the
natural response was to bow and worship.
We should let our worship be IN SPIRIT, thus being led by the
Holy Spirit, being conscious
of the spirit-nature of God, and being spiritual in our approach
to worship. When this
condition is met we are on our way to becoming true worshipers
if not ones already.
