WORSHIP THE LORD

It has been given to every born gain

child of God to be able to come into His presence and worship Him in
Spirit and in truth. Those who have received the Holy Spirit are able
to worship in the Spirit, with the Holy Spirit praying in and through
them.

The Spirit Filled believer can pray in
tongues, mysteries that he himself does not know, according to the
will of God. He does not know what he is praying, but the Spirit
intercedes through him. Romans 8:26,27 “In the same way the Spirit
also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should,
but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too
deep for words; and He who searches the hearts knows what the
mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according
to the will of God.”

It is absolutely essential that every
believer receive the Baptism in the Holy Spirit and practice praying
in tongues. When you pray in tongues you are not praying your own
thoughts or desires. You are uttering the desires and will of God,
praying according to the will of God, even though you do not know
what you are saying, because your spirit is praying but your mind is
unfruitful.

Praying in tongues enables us to pray
all day during the day even though our mind is occupied with our
daily task. Being tuned in to the Holy Spirit also opens our mind to
the guidance of the Holy Spirit, even in our daily tasks You cannot
be led by the Holy Spirit if you are not tuned in.

The unbeliever and the believer that
has not received the baptism in the Holy Spirit cannot pray in the
Spirit, because they do not have the Spirit. They cannot be in tune
with the Holy Spirit. It must therefor be the most earnest desire of
every believer, to receive the Holy Spirit baptism, and to practice
praying in tongues, praying in the Spirit to be in close communion
with Jesus. “For one who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men
but to God; for no one understands, but in his spirit he
speaks mysteries.” 1 Corinthians 14:2. He speaks mysteries to God
as given by God and thus he prays according to the will of God.

Many only worship in their mind,
participating in so-called worship services where there is a lot of
loud music, smoke and flashing lights. They might feel good but they
have no connection with Jesus and the Holy Spirit of God. Feelings is
not worship. Feelings satisfy the flesh but they do not edify the
spirit. They operate on the level of the mind and the physical, not
in the Spirit. Worship that God requires must be in SPIRIT AND IN
TRUTH. That is why the Holy Spirit was given. Those who receive
Jesus, repent and are baptized and baptized in the Holy Spirit,
become one Spirit with Him. If we do not have the Spirit of Christ we
are not of Him and do not belong to Him.

We read in John
4:23,24. “But an
hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the
Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be
His worshipers. 24“God
is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and
truth.”

Jesus promise The Holy Spirit to all
who receive Him and wish to follow Him. Many profess to believe in
Jesus but they never received the Holy Spirit. They have Bibles and
belong to churches but they do not have Jesus, because they do not
have His Spirit, the Holy Spirit. The Body of Christ is a Spiritual
building, not a church. Those who have the Spirit are the temple of
the Holy Spirit in which He dwells. They pray in the Spirit, walk in
the Spirit and are led by the Spirit.

Have we received the Holy Spirit and do
we worship Jesus in Spirit and in truth? Are we true worshipers4?

May Jesus bless you.

WORSHIP IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH

Jesus said: “But an hour is coming,

and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in
spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His
worshipers. 24“God is spirit, and those who worship Him must
worship in spirit and truth.” John 4:23,24. Jesus was speaking
to the Samaritan woman at the well and was referring to the Holy
Spirit that would be given when He said to her: “If you knew the
gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’
you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living
water.”  14but whoever drinks of the water that I will
give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will
become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.” John
4:10,14.

The Holy Spirit was given on the day of
Pentecost, after Jesus had been crucified, resurrected and ascended
to heaven. It was first given to Jesus’ disciples and thereafter to
those who believed and obeyed the gospel. They were filled with the
Holy Spirit and began speaking in other tongues, WORSHIPING IN SPIRIT
AND IN TRUTH. We read in Acts 2:38,39 “Peter said to
them, “Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus
Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the
gift of the Holy Spirit. 39“For the promise is for you and
your children and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our
God will call to Himself.” 

Every born again child of God needs to
be born of water (through baptism) and born of the Spirit of God,
through the Holy Spirit baptism. When baptized in the Holy Spirit,
they will speak in tongues, a well of living water springing up to
eternal life. The Holy Spirit baptism brings in the receiver a never
ending fountain of LIFE, that regenerates, revives and sustains them
if they keep on praying in tongues. Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 14:2
“For one who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God;
for no one understands, but in his spirit he speaks
mysteries.” Verse 4 “One who speaks in a tongue edifies himself;”

The Holy Spirit enables the Spirit
filled believer to pray through the Spirit according to the will of
God. Romans 8:26 “In the same way the Spirit also helps our
weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit
Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for
words; 27and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of
the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the
will of God.”

When praying in tongues the worshiper
does not know what he is praying, because the Spirit intercedes
through him. “14For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my
mind is unfruitful. 15What is the outcome then? I will
pray with the spirit and I will pray with the mind also; I will sing
with the spirit and I will sing with the mind also.” 1 Corinthians
14:14. The Holy Spirit provides the utterings conveying the message
to God according to the will of God. Because your mind is not working
while praying in tongues, you can be praying in the Spirit while
going about your daily activities, driving a car, cleaning, doing any
work, even mental work. The Holy Spirit filled believer can and must
be praying in the Spirit all day long. It need not be out loud, it
can be in our mind.

Worship in SPIRIT AND TRUTH must be
done in private, not to be seen by others. Paul writes: “I thank
God, I speak in tongues more than you all; 19however, in the
church I desire to speak five words with my mind so that I may
instruct others also, rather than ten thousand words in a tongue.”
1 Corinthians 14:18.

The Holy Spirit
baptism with tongues is promised to all true worshipers, because the
Spirit enables them to worship in SPIRIT and in TRUTH. The TRUE
WORSHIPERS pray in tongues. Do not let anybody tell you it is only
for some. Baptism in the Holy Spirit is always accompanied with
tongues. Other gifts of the Spirit follow AFTER being initially
baptized in the Spirit. The tongues that accompany baptism in the
Holy Spirit are for edification of the INDIVIDUAL. The gifts that
follow are for the COMMON GOOD of the ASSEMBLY.

“4Now there are varieties of gifts,
but the same Spirit. 5And there are varieties of ministries, and
the same Lord. 6There are varieties of effects, but the same God
who works all things in all persons. 7But to each one is
given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. 8For
to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, and to another
the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit; 9to another
faith by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healing by the one
Spirit, 10and to another the effecting of miracles, and to
another prophecy, and to another the distinguishing of spirits, to
another various kinds of tongues, and to another the
interpretation of tongues. 11But one and the same Spirit works
all these things, distributing to each one individually just as He
wills.” 1 Corinthians 12:4-11.

The Baptism in the Holy Spirit is the
inheritance of the TRUE WORSHIPERS, those who wish to worship God in
SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH. If you do not speak in tongues you have not yet
received the baptism in the Holy Spirit. Start earnestly worshiping
Jesus. Spend some time in the prayer closet, praising Jesus, yearning
for Him and His righteousness, His confirmation. Examine yourself.
How close are you to Jesus? Is He still your first love? Are there
hidden sins in your life that you need to repent of? Idols? Things
that you love more than Jesus, things that you need to get rid of,
repent of? Have you truly repented, been baptized in water and
committed to Jesus? Are you living holy? Draw closer to Jesus and He
will draw closer to you. Jesus will gladly baptize you in the Holy
Spirit. Become a true worshiper.

May Jesus bless you.

God Wants TRUTH Not Show

Jesus said that the time
has come and now is that the true worshipers will worship God in
spirit and in truth, because the Father seeks such that worship Him.

It has become fashionable
in churches to have worship teams and worship leaders, and big bands,
and they have special effects, and smoke, and they make a big noise,
but that is not the worship that is pleasing to God. What is pleasing
to God is that we worship Him in spirit and in truth, not just by
putting up a big show. We need to live our lives in such a way that
we prove that we are children of God. We need to live in obedience to
the words of Jesus Christ and prove that we are children of God, that
we are sons of God. If we do not obey Jesus then our worship is just
a noise, it is an annoyance to God. It does not bring glory to God.

If we live like the devil
we prove that we are sons of the devil. Jesus said:"If you love
Me, keep My commands." He said:"Why do you call Me Lord,
Lord, and you do not as I say." Jesus did not only give one
command. He did not just say we need to believe in Him. He gave many
commands on how we should live to be pleasing to God. We should live
our lives to please Him. We must go after Him, deny ourselves, pick
up our cross, and follow Him every day. We need to repent of all sin
and unrighteousness and live holy, be baptized in water, be filled
with a Holy Spirit and be led by the Holy Spirit, and then we will
produce good fruit. We will show by our deeds that we are children of
God.

Jesus said that every
branch in Him that does not bear fruit will get cut off and burned.
We bring glory to God by our fruit, by doing that which Jesus guides
us into doing. Without Jesus Christ we can do nothing. God is not
impressed with a big noise and a big show. He requires of us that we
worship Him from the heart, that we live our lives to please Him that
we worship Him in spirit and in truth and that we produce fruit of
righteousness and holiness, that will be light in darkness and that
we bring others unto Him.

Are we bringing glory to
Jesus through our lives? Are we ambassadors for the kingdom of heaven
and for Christ, or are we just making a big noise. The Father seeks
those who worship Him in spirit and in truth. re we worshiping Him
and bringing Him glory through everything that we are, and that we
do?

May Jesus bless you.

In SPIRIT and in TRUTH

A Samaritan woman once asked Jesus where we should worship, in Jerusalem or where? Jesus said to her that a time has come and now is that the true worshipers will worship God in SPIRIT and in TRUTH. It is not a matter of WHERE you worship but HOW you worship, whether you are SERIOUS with Jesus, and that is why Jesus gave us a NO NONSENSE STATEMENT. He said:”Whoever WISHES to come after Me must deny himself, pick up his cross every day and come here follow Me.”

Eternal life is about those people who worship God in SPIRIT and in TRUTH, those people who are not interested in playing games, in religion but who are serious about Jesus, who WANT eternal life, who are willing to GIVE IT ALL UP and go after Jesus Christ. Those are the ones who will have eternal life, those are the ones who will seek the Kingdom of God and FIND IT, those are the ones who will press on in and ENTER the Kingdom of God.

Do you desire to worship God in SPIRIT and in TRUTH? Are you serious? Then go after Jesus, seek Him with all your heart and you will find Him. OBEY His commands, His words that He spoke and Him and the Father will come and LIVE WITH YOU and He will REVEAL HIMSELF TO YOU, you will KNOW HIM and HE WILL GUIDE YOU and He will GIVE YOU ETERNAL LIFE! Do you want REALITY? Do you want Jesus Christ? Then GO AFTER HIM!

May Jesus bless you.

Most Christians worship an IMAGE of JESUS

I created this image of the South African Kingfisher with paint on a canvas. It is a beautiful South African bird but that is not a real Kingfisher, that is an image of the Kingfisher which I constructed from memory, looking at it and also from photographs.

In similar fashion people have met Jesus and they have written their experiences in the scriptures. They saw Him for real. The gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were written by people who had seen Jesus, walked with Him, heard Him, others wrote down the accounts of other people who knew Jesus (Luke). What is written is AN IMAGE of Jesus Christ and from what people read in the Bible they create an image of Christ but it is not Jesus Christ. You can only KNOW Jesus Christ if you see Him FACE TO FACE, if you know Him person to person.

Most believers worship AN IMAGE OF JESUS CHRIST. They like to look at the IMAGE. This picture is not a Kingfisher, it is an IMAGE of a Kingfisher. It might be close, it might be good to look at but it is not a Kingfisher. It just gives you an idea of what it looks like but you need to SEE IT yourself, you need to hear it sing.

Many people just worship an image of Jesus Christ. They are happy with the image but they don't know Him, they don't follow Him and they will stand before Him and He will say to them:”I don't know you.” They worship an IMAGE. Jesus Christ is ALIVE and He reveals Himself to those who seek Him – if you seek Him, you find Him! If you want to see a real Kingfisher, come to South Africa and see it for yourself. If you want to know Jesus Christ for real, GO ON YOUR KNEES AND SEEK HIM WITH ALL YOUR POWER and you will find Him, and you will KNOW HIM FOR REAL. And only then you can follow Him.

Are you worshiping, following an IMAGE of Jesus Christ as you have read it in the Bible or from the account of other people who truly know Jesus or do you know Him for yourself? Do you follow the IMAGE or do you follow Jesus HIMSELF?

May Jesus bless you.

Do Not Worship The Image

Most believers only worship an image of Jesus Christ, an image that they have created in their minds, an image with limitations and certain qualities that they attribute to Him, an image that is limited by their perception of the Bible. They do not know Jesus.

They have never met Him because then they would know that He is greater than any definition, than any image, than anything that you can think. Jesus Christ IS God Almighty. If you meet Him then you will realize how SMALL YOU ARE, HOW LITTLE YOU KNOW, how insignificant you truly are and how enormously great and magnificent, INDESCRIBABLE Jesus Christ is. You will fall down and worship Him and you will ask HIM to teach you, to reveal Himself to you and you will be constantly in AWE of Jesus Christ your Master.

Have you met Jesus Christ THE MASTER? Or do you worship an image?

May Jesus bless you.

They worship the IMAGE

Church organizations create an image of Jesus Christ and that image complies to their doctrine, their teachings. The members of the congregation worship the IMAGE and if somebody starts following Jesus Christ and not the IMAGE then that person is rejected and persecuted. They call that person a heretic.
If you follow Jesus Christ, you will not fit into church organizations and you will not worship the IMAGE of Jesus Christ that they portray. But you will deny yourself, pick up your cross and follow Jesus Christ every day. You will not worship the IMAGE but you will LISTEN to the MASTER. You will be LED by the HOLY SPIRIT and you will DO what Jesus commands you to do, but you will not worship the IMAGE.
Do you KNOW JESUS CHRIST and do you FOLLOW HIM? Or do you also worship an IMAGE of JESUS CHRIST, an image that complies to the church of your CHOICE because that IMAGE is not the truth it is a LIE. You need to follow Jesus Christ and obey HIM to have eternal life.

May Jesus bless you.