It's the start of a new year--and a good time to gut check your prayer life.
Are you a true worshiper in your prayer life?
The first thing Jesus taught us about prayer was that we must worship in spirit and in truth, if we’re to be true worshipers. He told the Samaritan woman at the well, "True worshipers will worship in spirit and in truth." [John 4:21]
Jesus was not talking about emotion or feeling, but an act of the will; we choose to worship, or not. He went on to say, "God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth." [John 4:24]
Because God is spirit, our understanding of Him and our response to Him, must be in harmony with Him as a spiritual being. There must be something in us that can recognize and value Who God is, something that allows us to know and to experience Him. As our eyes are equipped to receive light, and our ears are designed to take in sound, we were created with body, soul and spirit, that we might commune with Him with our spiritual nature.
We were created for worship, equipped for prayer.
God is Spirit, and as we worship Him, true worship must be with our spirit in harmony with His will and His purpose. True worshipers live in a continuing spirit of worship, rather than simply setting aside a special time for worship.
We’re created with the capacity to be those true worshipers, and we can live in a spirit of worship and truth, if we only will.
Prayer for today -- Lord, help us to be true worshipers, who live in a continuing
spirit of worship, for we ask in Jesus’ name, amen.
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