Worship in the Spirit
SCRIPTURE: \’The hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the
Father in Spirit and in truth; for such doth the Father seek to be His worshippers. God is a
Spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in truth.\’–John 4: 23,
24.
\’We are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and
have no confidence in the flesh. Phil. 3: 3.
To worship God is man\’s highest glory. He was created for fellowship with God and among
other things in his fellowship, worship is the sublimest expression. You can never do more;
you should never wish to do less. All the exercises of the religious life meditation and prayer,
love, and faith, surrender and obedience, all culminate in worship. Recognising what God is
in His holiness, His glory, and His love, realizing what I am as a sinful creature, and as the
Father\’s redeemed child, in worship I gather up my whole being and present myself to my
God, to offer Him the adoration and the glory which is His due. The truest and fullest and
nearest approach to God is worship. Every sentiment and every service of the religious life is
included in it: to worship is man\’s highest destiny, because in it, God is all.
Jesus tells us that with His coming a new worship would commence. All that heathen or
Samaritans had called worship, all even that the Jews had known of worship in accordance
with the provisional revelation of God\’s law, would make way for something entirely and
distinctively new–the worship in Spirit and in Truth. This is the worship He was to
inaugurate by the giving of the Holy Spirit. This is the worship which now alone is well
pleasing to the Father. It is for this worship specially that we have received the Holy Spirit.
Let us, understand and let it be top of mind that, the work of the Spirit, that worship is the
great object for which the Holy Spirit is within us, and that we worship in spirit and in truth.
\’Such doth the Father seek to be His worshippers,\’-for this He sent forth His Son and His
Spirit.
PRAYER OF WORSHIP: TAKE OUT TIME TO WORSHIP IN SPIRIT WITH SONGS,
CLAPPING AND A DANCE IF YOU CAN. REJOICE IN THE SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH.