Serving the Living God

http://highcity.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Serving-the-Living-God-300×300.jpg”Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the custom is with some; but encouraging one another, and by so much the more as ye see the day drawing near” (Hebrew 10:25 KJV)

Today’s Bible Reading: John 4:1-24¹

God is a spirit and can be worshiped from anywhere but we come to church to be fed and reinforced.

The Bible teaches us that God is a spirit and for that matter He is everywhere. In this light we understand that God can be worshiped anywhere in truth and in spirit.

Some people therefore wonder why we sometimes travel miles and miles to worship, fellowship and to attend church meetings. If God is a spirit and He is omnipresent, then God can be worship in our hearts and in our rooms so why should anyone go to church then. Indeed, that assertion is true, we don’t need go and worship God in any special mountain, or even in Jerusalem (See John 4:21²)

In as much as this is true, I beseech you by the mercies of God to understand that we don’t gather in church merely to worship but also to be fed spiritually and to be reinforced to face the daily challenges of life. When we gather we build and develop community to support and minster to one another. We gather to form a community to be there for each other, ministering to each other, and serving the Living God.

To be able to make it to church this holy day;

1. Decide that you are not just going to church to enjoy a beautiful atmosphere but to be fed and empowered to live life.
2. Plan your trip ahead of time.
3. Select and iron your clothes and clean your shoes
4. Wake up early, get ready and attend the service
5. Arrive on time to be part of the beginning of the service

God bless you!

Today’s Prayer

Dear God, 

In the name of Jesus Christ, I make a choice to serve You for the rest of my life. As I attend service tomorrow, enlighten my understanding and meet me at the point of my need, Amen.

Today’s Thought

When birds flock together, they keep warm togerther!

Referenced Scriptures

1. John 4:1-24 (KJV): When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,) He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee. And he must needs go through Samaria. Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour. There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.) Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans. Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water? Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle? Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw. Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband: For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly. The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. ↩︎
2. John 4:21 (KJV): Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. ↩︎