God Is Still Seeking Worshippers by BERT FARIAS for Charisma News
“At the moment her aunt heard Mary’s voice, the baby within Elizabeth’s womb jumped and kicked. And suddenly, Elizabeth was filled to overflowing with the Holy Spirit! With a loud voice she prophesied with power: … The moment you came in the door and greeted me, my baby danced inside me with joy! … And Mary sang this song: ‘My soul is ecstatic, overflowing with praises to God! My spirit bursts with joy over my life-giving God!'” (Luke 1:41-42, 44, 46-47, TPT, emphasis added).
God the Father is seeking those who worship Him in spirit and in truth.
“From now on, worshiping the Father will not be a matter of the right place but with a right heart. For God is a Spirit, and he longs to have sincere worshipers who adore him in the realm of the Spirit and in truth” (John 4:23-24).
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Under the New Covenant, we are the temple of God, or the house of God, not a place or a building or a particular city or mountain. In the Old Covenant, David danced with ” all his might” (2 Sam. 6:14b, NLT), but in the New Covenant, the saints dance “in the Spirit.” There is a difference. In fact, the real Christian life under the New Covenant is to be “in the Spirit.” We are to walk and live in the Spirit. We are to pray in the Spirit. We are to worship in the Spirit. We are to be led by the Spirit. Too many Christians still live in an Old Covenant mentality instead of a New Covenant reality. Much of the Old Covenant is a type and shadow of things to come. The New Covenant is no longer a shadow but the light and glory of what Jesus established.
Imagine the high priest coming out of the holy of holies, a 20-by-40-foot room where the shekinah glory of God was in manifestation. No one else under the Old Covenant could enter, only the high priest. When he came out, the people of Israel could not relate to what he felt and even saw in that place.
It’s the same today with God’s people who worship in “spirit and truth” (John 4:24b) and those who are still bound by a traditional mindset or have never been born again or filled with the Spirit. A spirit that is alive unto God calls Him Father and worships Him in “spirit and in truth.” This spirit grows in the New Covenant consciousness that God no longer dwells in a temple made with human hands but within this spirit, which is now the temple of God. Glory to God! That is an awesome reality about which many Christians need to receive a revelation. It will change the way they walk and talk and live. And of course, it will change the way they worship.
