Daily Bread - Dec 29 2006
John 4:23 - "But an hour of the true worshipper is coming and now is when they shall worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth."
We now live in the time of the true worshipper. Not because of a special creed or liturgical practice but because God has poured out the water from on high (Isaiah 41:18; 44:3). The worshipper referred to here is a unique kind of worshipper never before talk about in the scripture. The true worshipper worships in a different way than any worshipper of the past has ever been able to worship. The true worshipper must worship in Spirit and Truth, something that is only possible through the living water that Jesus causes to come up out of our innermost being through the gift of God.
Jesus invited this woman - as well as all men in every generation - to come and draw water from the true well of life (Isaiah 12:3; John 7:38-39). The gift of God is supplied to us as a satisfying drink to a thirsty soul. When we drink of this water it becomes a wellspring and a river producing the limitless supply of Holy Spirit inspiration. Through receiving the miracle supply of the Spirit that Jesus desires to give, rivers from the deep places of our souls are released in worship unto God.
Jesus, who is the rock in the wilderness, now offers spiritual drink to everyone who is thirsty (1 Corinthians 10:4; Psalms 78:15; 105:14). He has come down to us like rain upon the mown grass as showers that water the earth (Psalms 72:6). For those who will receive the water that He gives, He turns the wilderness of our life into a standing water and the dry ground into water springs (Psalms 107:35).
Drinking is something that we do regularly because of a deep physical need. No matter who we are we also have a deep spiritual need for the living water. What many of God's people fail to recognize is that we need to come just as regularly to the fountain of life to satisfy the spiritual thirst that we have. Every time we drink of this spiritual water, the Holy Spirit will cause rivers of His pleasure to flow out of our innermost being. As we allow God to supply our deepest spiritual need, rivers of worship and truth flow out in praise unto our God.
Blessings,
Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
abidingplace.org
About Me
- Carol L
- San Diego area, California, United States
- I started this blog back in 2005, but in 2006 began dedicating it solely for the purpose of posting email messages called, Daily Bread, sent out Monday through Saturday by my pastor, Mark Spitsbergen. These daily emails contain fresh revelation that Mark gets from the Word of God by the Holy Spirit for that day for the church that God has called him to pastor, Abiding Place. 1 Peter 4:11 says, "If any man speak let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister let him do it as of the ability which God gives that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever. Amen." Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, (John 14:6), and He says, "The words that I speak to you are Spirit, and they are Life." (John 6:63). For the Word of God is quick (alive), and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12).
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