Please read the following scripture.

 

John 4:22   Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.

John 4:23   But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.

John 4:24   God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

 

The Lord Jesus is speaking to The Samaritan woman at Jacobs Well in Sychar. He tells her, you worship you know not what.

 

Many of the Church today are in that position, worshiping a God that they have been told about, but do not know.

 

In verse 24 Jesus says” they that worship him must worship in spirit and truth”.

A very important key is shown to us true worship comes from our sprit and in truthfulness. Just putting on a show a few days a week is not going to make it, we must come to God bare, hearted broken and in submission.

 

Almost to the glory, we must not just be almost but in the presence of HIS Glory.

 

To worship Him we must know Him. Look with me to this next scripture.

 

Heb 11:6   But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

 

First, (without faith) faith, as a word and as a doctrine has been taken and miss used by many. The power of the Lord Jesus Christ and God the Father has been diminished to a belief in a magic. It has been in use for ages that if you just believe in what you want you can get anything, God has been moved out of the picture. This word faith has been defined in many ways; but the simplest and purest is in the above scripture. Faith is believing that God IS. The power of our Lord has been corrupted by weak minded sinful people. We must believe that God IS and That he IS ALL powerful.

 

Mat 28:18   And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.

 

Jesus The son of the Living God was given all power on heaven and earth. He doesn’t have any problem with saving a repentant sinful man nor healing the sick. Whatever is needed is available from HIM; but over the year’s people have preached a faith in faith, they have preached a name it and clam it, and fast till you get it; but let me tell you of a most radical idea given to the church by our Lord himself “All power is given unto me” Jesus said we are simply to believe that he is and a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. What a thought only to believe in him and ask. One reason that there are problems in the church today is something that is not new look with me now to another set of scripture.

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Psa 50:2   Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.

Psa 50:3   Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

Psa 50:4   He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.

Psa 50:5   Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.

Psa 50:6   And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.

Psa 50:7   Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.

 

 

Let’s look at verse 21, God is speaking to the wicked and he says “thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself”.

Think about it He says you thought that I was like you, then He says literally I am going to set you straight. We all need to realize that God Is and what He Is and we are just an image of him that has been marred by sin and disbelief. God speaks in verse 7 and says “I am God even thy God”. And in verse 14 he says “Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:  And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me”.

You ask, Is it that simple? Yes!  God says Offer me thanks and pay the debt you promised and then call and I will answer. When you came to God you gave your life to him it is no longer your own. Take the time to start again. Just simply say forgive me Lord and I submit to your will, nothing that I have is mine; but all is yours lead me to my place in glory Amen.

 

God says I am not like you. Well what is He like. Let’s look to

John 3:16   For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

He is pure love. Unselfish, only that pure love could give his own son for sinful man. He is the definition of love .1 John4: 7Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. 8He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

God is Love. You cannot share any love unless you have that spirit of god in you because the only love that you have is the love of god that inhabits you

 

Exo 34:14   For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:

 

He is a jealous God that is to mean we are his and that he cannot stand it if our attention is focused anywhere else. Where is your focus? Is it on learning Christ? Knowing him must be your Focus your life.

 

 

Exo 34:6   And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,

In the before mentioned scripture the Lord is speaking to Moses and he says I am

merciful-(7349. rachuwm, rakh oom’; from H7355; compassionate:  full of compassion, merciful)  Gracious-(2587. channuwn, khan noon’; from H2603; gracious:  gracious.)

Longsuffering-(750. ‘arek, aw rake’; from H748; long:  long [ suffering, winged], patient, slow [to anger])

abundant in goodness-(2617. checed, kheh’ sed; from H2616; kindness; by impl. (towards God) piety; rarely (by opp.) reproof, or (subject.) beauty:  favor, good deed (liness, ness), kindly, (loving) 

abundant in truth-(571. ’emeth, eh’ meth; contr. from _H539; stability; fig. certainty, _truth, trustworthiness:  assured _( ly), establishment, faithful, right, sure, true ( ly,  The), verity.

 

Wow what a GOD, he spoke the universe in to existence, He created you and me from the dust of the world then why should we think that He should have in problem supplying our needs.

 

Jesus told Martha and all of us in John 11:40(if thou wouldest believe, thou should see the Glory of God) That is just believing that God IS and that Jesus IS and that they reward those that seek after them.

 

Lay aside the things of this world, the ideas that you have had concerning GOD and see A GOD that loves you and is merciful AND WILLING TO SAVE FROM SIN and heal this mortal body…. When Moses asked God what his name was He replied “I AM THAT I AM”

 

If you need healing God Is saying “I AM THAT”.  If you   need forgiving “IAM THAT”. If you need the Holy ghost “I AM THAT” Whatever your need He is that with no fancy rituals just a gracious and merciful all powerful GOD willing to give unto his children.

 

Glory Glory Glory