Pastor Barry's "Chapter & Verse" Day 17

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Pastor Barry's  "Chapter & Verse"  Day 17

January 17;   John 4:24;   72/260(VI);   ‘In Spirit & In Truth’

John 4:24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth." 

Worship is an incredibly important part of our walk with the Lord.  We are loved by the Lord and He is blessed when we express our love back to Him in worship.  Worship is not only fitting and proper, it is therapeutic, bringing peace, security and faith to our lives.  Jesus was talking to the woman at the well when He said we are to worship the Father in spirit and truth.  True worship is given to the Lord out of our spirit.  Our spirit when we are Born Again is ‘alive’ and sincere worship emanates from our spirit.  You may not be a great singer, the Lord does not care about that.  He cares that love, emanating from your spirit, is expressed to Him in worship that is sung or declared.  Our worship is also based on truth – the Word of God.  The Word teaches us all that has been done for us by the Lord Jesus.  The more time we spend reading the Word of God, the more truth we know.  The commitment of Jesus to us and His continuing love and provisions should make the worship response of each of us, sincere and reverent. The truth we learn from the Word ‘educates’ our spirit, and that truth is released out of our spirit in love, adoration and gratitude back unto our Lord.  A vital way this is done is through worship. Remember, music was created by God so that we could worship Him.  The fact that a great deal of today’s music is violent, immoral and meaningless is proof that the devil does all that he can to divert the true purpose of music.  True worship is a gift given to us by the Lord and plays a huge part in freeing us from the counterfeit system the world tries so hard to deceive us with.