We need to worship the true God & to worship Him, He says we must worship Him in spirit & truth. The Father seeks those who worship Him in spirit & truth. Worship is the product of salvation: seeking Him, being saved by Him & giving worth to Him, hallowing His Name.
A good prayer of consecration & cleansing, so that we might worship God in spirit & truth is this:
"Oh most merciful God, we have sinned against you in thought, word & deed, by what we have done & by what we have left undone. We have not loved you with our whole heart, mind, soul, & strength--we have not loved our neighbor as ourselves. For the sake of Your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, have mercy on us. Forgive us, renew us & lead us, so that we might delight in Your will & walk in Your ways, to the glory of Your holy Name. Amen."
Scripture is filled with worship, filled with people who are worshipers & marked by worship. God designs worship within His purposes & desires. Worship is a way of life. To worship God is to know God as One who loves us & desires us to be holy & blameless before Him.
He gives the grace, He gives the authority, He gives the power to accomplish His purposes & workings. We are continually amazed at His using us for furthering His kingdom! We have to worship God in an acceptable way, not in any way we want. (like Cain) A ransomed, transformed person is able to worship God in spirit & truth because God has made access to His very throne through the blood & life of the Lord Jesus Christ.
John 4:10-26 Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God & who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.” “Sir,” the woman replied, “You have nothing to draw with & the well is deep. Where then will You get this living water? Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock?”
13Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again.
14But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.” The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water so that I will not get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.” Jesus told her, “Go, call your husband & come back.” “I have no husband,” the woman replied.
Jesus said to her, “You are correct to say that you have no husband. In fact, you have had five husbands & the man you now have is not your husband. You have spoken truthfully.” “Sir,” the woman said, “I see that You are a prophet. Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where one must worship is in Jerusalem.”
21“Believe Me, woman,” Jesus replied, “a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You worship what you do NOT know; we worship what we DO KNOW, for salvation is from the Jews. But a time is coming & has NOW COME when the TRUE WORSHIPERS will worship the Father IN SPIRIT & IN TRUTH, FOR THE FATHER IS SEEKING SUCH AS THESE TO WORSHIP HIM.
GOD IS SPIRIT--& His worshipers MUST WORSHIP HIM--in spirit & in truth.” The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When He comes, He will explain everything to us.” Jesus answered, “I who speak to you am He.”
Worship comes from an Old English word that means to ascribe WORTH to God, Whom we have come to know & have seen His working in & through our lives, using us for His glory.
And the confession we should have as to the purpose of man: it is to worship God, glorifying & enjoying Him forever.
