It is impossible to separate who God is from His words and from His Spirit. His words and Spirit reveal who God is. To worship God then, we must worship Him in Spirit and in truth through the words that He has spoken unto us. We do not worship per se His Spirit or His word but we worship Him in the Spirit and in the truth that He has given to us. Hearing the word of God preached through the power of the Spirit is the highest form of worship for the believer. All other forms of worship that is directed toward the living God comes from hearing God's words that have been spoken to us through the Spirit. The priority of the believer is to be in a place that God has called them to hear the word through preaching and teaching followed up with personal study and meditation.
For the believer to truly worship God, the word must separate the soul from the spirit within the believer so that the word can really enter in without the soul consuming it upon the flesh. The only way that can effectively happen is when we put ourselves under the word and that means to hear it preached from a Spirit-filled servant of God who has been called to do just that. Putting ourselves under the word takes humility, discipline and faith-obedience. The word that we hear is the word that keeps us and dwells within us, to keep us from sin and gives us great peace in the midst of adversity and trouble. The more we put ourselves under the word the more we have of the word filling up and furnishing the rooms of our soul or house.
Our worship in Spirit and truth is characterized by a peace within that goes beyond understand, with a joy that is unspeakable and full of glory and has a love that goes beyond knowledge. That seems like a paradox but it's not. The results of our worship is produced in us, in our soul, by the living God which is glorifying His Son in us as members of His body, flesh and bones with love, joy and peace. That glorification of His Son in us reveals to the world that we are in Christ's stead as His ambassador with a ministry and word of reconciliation. This becomes our vocation as we go out into all the world to reveal a glorified Christ, through a glorious gospel as He present us to Himself as a glorious church.
For the believer to truly worship God, the word must separate the soul from the spirit within the believer so that the word can really enter in without the soul consuming it upon the flesh. The only way that can effectively happen is when we put ourselves under the word and that means to hear it preached from a Spirit-filled servant of God who has been called to do just that. Putting ourselves under the word takes humility, discipline and faith-obedience. The word that we hear is the word that keeps us and dwells within us, to keep us from sin and gives us great peace in the midst of adversity and trouble. The more we put ourselves under the word the more we have of the word filling up and furnishing the rooms of our soul or house.
Our worship in Spirit and truth is characterized by a peace within that goes beyond understand, with a joy that is unspeakable and full of glory and has a love that goes beyond knowledge. That seems like a paradox but it's not. The results of our worship is produced in us, in our soul, by the living God which is glorifying His Son in us as members of His body, flesh and bones with love, joy and peace. That glorification of His Son in us reveals to the world that we are in Christ's stead as His ambassador with a ministry and word of reconciliation. This becomes our vocation as we go out into all the world to reveal a glorified Christ, through a glorious gospel as He present us to Himself as a glorious church.