My Life of Worship...The Realm of the Spirit is Real

I'm entering a new level of my Spiritual Walk...It's time (at least for now) to focus on taking all I've learned from trust and obedience, and begin to worship Him daily...to create a life of Worship. That will be the focus of my studies for a while...

I'm discovering that the realm of the Spirit is real ~ and has been in existence longer than the natural realm that we now reside in.

John 1:1-3, 10 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through Him all things were made; without Him nothing was made that has been made…He was in the world and though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognize Him.”

Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”

We can see that God existed before the world was created. Because of that, we can see that God did not need to create the world, He chose to do it.

So we have to ask ourselves – why? Because God is love. You can’t express love unless you have something or someone to express it to. We were created for the sole purpose of having a loving relationship with the Creator of the universe.

Romans 9:25 (The Message) “I’ll call nobodies and make them somebodies; I’ll call the unloved and make them beloved. In the place where they yelled out ‘you’re nobody!’ they’re calling you ‘God’s living children.’ Isaiah maintained this same emphasis: If each grain of sand on the seashore were numbered and the sum labeled ‘chosen of God’, they’d be numbers still, not names. Salvation comes by personal selection. God doesn’t count us, He calls us by name. Arithmatic is not His focus.”

You see God loves us. He created the world – universe – galaxy – for US! Because He wanted to create a species of being – man – to pour His love on. A species of being to love and be loved by. By exchanging this act between creator and the created, a relationship is developed. That’s His purpose – to create a being for the purpose of relationship. The reason the relationship is so important is because it allows the expression of love to flow from the Father to us and from us to the Father. It completes both parties of the relationship.

By now you’re probably thinking, “…where is this going? What does that (the creation of man) have to do with worship? They are two different anomalies…”

Creation of man and the act of Worship may be explained independently, and they are both worthy of independent study. But to truly understand worship, you must understand relationship. You can’t have relationship without worship following nor can you have worship without a relationship first.

Pastor Rod Parsley said in Praise, the Ultimate Experience, Worship the Ultimate Relationship, “Worship is acknowledging God for who He is. Worship is all that we are, rightly responding to all that He is. To worship Him, you must know Him.”

Jesus was ministering to a Samaritan woman in John 4:23, 24 when He said “Yet a time is coming and has now come when true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is Spirit, and His worshipers must worship in Spirit and in truth.”

Notice the end of verse 23. It says that the Father SEEKS those who worship in Spirit and in truth. He created all that is so He can have relationship. We can’t sincerely worship something we do not intimately know. He seeks those who will walk in this relationship – in His presence – every day. That’s how we begin to know Him – to hear His voice – to touch Him and be touched by Him.