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How Do We Worship In Spirit and In Truth? The Ekklesian
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- Religion & Spirituality
What is it to worship “in the Spirit and in truth” as Jesus related in John 4:23-24? Even ardent believers struggle, stumble, and fail in their faith because they are trying to use their will, determination, and intellect not just to worship God, but to solve the challenges that life, and the enemy, throw at them.
You simply cannot approach your faith as though it were a matter of intellectual knowledge and application. Those have no power to transform you. Faith is not an issue of human logic, it’s a reality of divine trust. It is not believing what you see, it’s seeing what you believe. It is perceiving beyond what your senses tell you in the natural, to growing in spiritual maturity so that you might have discernment and wisdom about what a God who is Spirit is doing across Heavenly and Earthly realms.
John 16:13 tells us, “When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all truth.”
Many don’t believe, or worse yet, fear this text because they don’t know how it’s possible. As a tool for maintaining control, religion has often led people to believe that being in error is itself sin and God punishes us for being wrong. This is a demonic fabrication that implies the Lord has little to no capacity for guiding His children directly into truth. Religious institutions often present themselves as the authority and the masses cling to dogma and tradition as though their lives depended on it, instead of embracing the active direction and guidance the Holy Spirit makes available to each of us:
If we fail to cultivate intimacy with God for ourselves, we will never understand that God’s ability to correct us and reveal His truth is greater than satan’s ability to deceive us. Without that deeper relationship with Him, we suffer for our lack of faith.
Faith the size of a mustard seed is a faith we muster up in our mind and soul. It is miniscule, but it is something the Lord works with to increase just as Jesus did with the loaves and the fishes. That increase is planted in your spiritual identity connecting and allowing a much greater faith that flows to you from the throne of Heaven.
It is through this Heavenly faith – found only in direct relationship with Him — that the transformative power of God’s presence, through the Holy Spirit, renews your heart and mind, to change and heal your inner-being.
Again, faith is not an issue of human logic, it’s a reality of divine trust. It is not about you, it’s about what God is doing in you as His child. Jesus told us in Matthew 11:25:
“I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.
We worship God who is Spirit in spirit and in truth through direct relationship. This is also how we fully receive His promises, are transformed, and extend the true love, mercy, and grace of Heaven to the world.
What is it to worship “in the Spirit and in truth” as Jesus related in John 4:23-24? Even ardent believers struggle, stumble, and fail in their faith because they are trying to use their will, determination, and intellect not just to worship God, but to solve the challenges that life, and the enemy, throw at them.
You simply cannot approach your faith as though it were a matter of intellectual knowledge and application. Those have no power to transform you. Faith is not an issue of human logic, it’s a reality of divine trust. It is not believing what you see, it’s seeing what you believe. It is perceiving beyond what your senses tell you in the natural, to growing in spiritual maturity so that you might have discernment and wisdom about what a God who is Spirit is doing across Heavenly and Earthly realms.
John 16:13 tells us, “When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all truth.”
Many don’t believe, or worse yet, fear this text because they don’t know how it’s possible. As a tool for maintaining control, religion has often led people to believe that being in error is itself sin and God punishes us for being wrong. This is a demonic fabrication that implies the Lord has little to no capacity for guiding His children directly into truth. Religious institutions often present themselves as the authority and the masses cling to dogma and tradition as though their lives depended on it, instead of embracing the active direction and guidance the Holy Spirit makes available to each of us:
If we fail to cultivate intimacy with God for ourselves, we will never understand that God’s ability to correct us and reveal His truth is greater than satan’s ability to deceive us. Without that deeper relationship with Him, we suffer for our lack of faith.
Faith the size of a mustard seed is a faith we muster up in our mind and soul. It is miniscule, but it is something the Lord works with to increase just as Jesus did with the loaves and the fishes. That increase is planted in your spiritual identity connecting and allowing a much greater faith that flows to you from the throne of Heaven.
It is through this Heavenly faith – found only in direct relationship with Him — that the transformative power of God’s presence, through the Holy Spirit, renews your heart and mind, to change and heal your inner-being.
Again, faith is not an issue of human logic, it’s a reality of divine trust. It is not about you, it’s about what God is doing in you as His child. Jesus told us in Matthew 11:25:
“I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.
We worship God who is Spirit in spirit and in truth through direct relationship. This is also how we fully receive His promises, are transformed, and extend the true love, mercy, and grace of Heaven to the world.
3 min