Unworldly Worship

.........The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God. (Exo 3:18)

The Father is looking and calling for true worshipers, but it is a call out of the world’s ways, standards and charms of the world. Egypt is the picture of the world which we are called out and three days is a picture of death and resurrection.  Therefore the worship that the Father is looking for involves dying to all that the world esteems and values, not to invite and integrate. The world carries a different spirit which is dead to God’s Spirit.

And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us? (Exo 8:26)

If the world agrees and accepts our worship it tells about the spirit of the worship. The spirit that connects with the Father is as Jesus defines as having the element of truth. Truth is when our heart have been tried by God and offer out of uprightness of heart (1 Chron 29:17). God is not looking first for talent, musicality, correctness although these are out of an excellent spirit, but a man or woman that has been tried by His purification fire and willingly yielding to allow God to do deeper work. Worship is not cheap, it cost a man or a woman the whole heart.

Cleanliness of Heart for the Safety of the Nation

Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem. (Psa 51:18)

With regard to prayer, Jesus says uses the phrase ‘when you pray’ not ‘if you pray’. The Word is our daily bread and prayer is our breath. Both are equally important in our Christian walk as with the physical life needing both a staple diet and air.

Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. (Pro 14:34)

An intercessor should desire a clean heart and steadfast spirit, desire this first than desire God to work in our nation. We approach our Father; Whose Name is Hallowed, with clean hands and a pure heart. An intercessor shouldn’t neglect doing personal business with the Father. A fruitful intercessor is one that that has a clear conscience before God and man. God is looking for a man or woman who will stand in the gap for the safety of our nation (Eze 22:30) and that person is one that would do business with Him first before carrying out the Father’s business.

If We….

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (1Jn 1:9)

There are things in us that the Lord will not do anything about until we are desperate to do business with Him.  Sin is a violation of relationship with the Holy God that we have committed first and foremost against Him. He is willing to give us freedom from these struggles that prick our conscience and hinder that openness of hearing from the Good Shepherd. The hearing become dry and lack the vitality it is suppose to bring. These road blocks are not put there by devils and demons but by us.

If we say that we have no sin….If we say that we have not sinned (1 Jn 1:8, 10)

Confession of our sins comes in between what we say about our sin and of our spiritual state. Either way we say it is self deception and making God a liar. Either way is to say that we are devoid of God’s truth and His Word. Hence the reason for the dryness and lifelessness of the Word; the Word, to us, is reduced to mere philosophy, thoughts, creeds, wise sayings, unrealistic demands, etc. The freedom to hear the voice of our Good Shepherd avails to all His sheep, if we would take responsibility and humbly confess our sins.