Spirit and Truth

The Woman at the Well

"Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.” John 4:23-24

I know these teachings tend to be long and I can't blame anybody for not reading them all the way through. We do have things to do or take care of and I know reading these will take too much of your previous time away. But guess what, if you are really hungry for the Word, the Lord's going to give you the time.

Shall we go on?

Read on only if you really want to, because the Lord is not really into forcing anybody but rather He is into gently revealing something you may not yet know but need to know. Here, the Lord is prophesying that His church will worship our heavenly Father 'in spirit' and 'in truth'.

And this is why we have so many churches today that are so into the spiritual and some go overboard with it. In contrast the rest of the other churches are into the truth and they go all the way with that.

Those churches that merely worship in spirit are totally missing half of what Jesus prophesied His church to be; in the same way those who only worship in truth (in Jesus and His teaching or in the Holy bible) are also missing out in half of what Jesus was intending for His church. Remember it is His church, not ours. We do not make the rules, He does.

Us, we are that woman at the well, with our dark past and things that only God knows about. We are all going to the well, looking and fetching for water that will sustain us. There Jesus met her and told her to worship in (the) Spirit and in Truth (Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life). It's not one or the other, we don't get to choose one or the other, it's both. And this should be the way our church should worship, in a perfect balance of both the move of the spirit and the truth of the gospel. This is why I keep on saying that worship is the glue.

Now when you read John 4 again, then you can read it with a different perspective, just like the Lord meant our bible devotions to be, making us hungry for a new revelation each time we do so.