Jesus said:
“God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must
worship in spirit and truth.”
John 4:24
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father
except through me.
فَأَجَابَهُ يَسُوعُ: «أَنَا هُوَ الطَّرِيقُ وَالْحَقُّ وَالْحَيَاةُ. لَا يَأْتِي أَحَدٌ إِلَى الآبِ إِلّا بِي.
John 14:6
God The Father is Spirit and is omnipresent, meaning He is present everywhere. The nature of God is an eternal, immense and infinite Spirit. God is the creator of all spirits. Only The Trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) is omnipresent, we can pray to The Trinity from anywhere across the globe.
Jesus is the only mediator between us and
God.
For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus
اللهُ وَاحِدٌ، وَالوَسِيطُ بَيْنَ اللهِ وَالنَّاسِ وَاحِدٌ هُوَ الإنْسَانُ يَسُوعُ المَسِيحُ.
1 Timothy 2:5
Jesus tells us that we should pray in His
name to The Father.
الْحَقَّ الْحَقَّ أَقُولُ لَكُمْ: إِنَّ الآبَ سَيُعْطِيكُمْ كُلَّ مَا تَطْلُبُونَ مِنْهُ بِاسْمِي. 24 حَتَّى الآنَ لَمْ تَطْلُبُوا بِاسْمِي شَيْئاً. اطْلُبُوا تَنَالُوا، فَيَكُونَ فَرَحُكُمْ كَامِلاً.
John 16:23-24
We should pray to the Father in the name
of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Many people are praying to so called “saints”
that some churches canonized or declared as “saints”. They may pray to them or
ask for their mediation. No where does the Bible say that any of these many “saints”
that the churches have proclaimed are omnipresent. If they are not omnipresent,
they cannot hear prayers across the globe. I believe these so called “saints”
are dead people and cannot hear prayers at all. We are asked by Jesus to pray
in His name. He is the only mediator between us and God. We are asked to pray
to Him and nowhere does Jesus say we need a mediator between us and Jesus.
A. Worshipping in Spirit
I believe we would be considered worshipping God in
spirit, when we are guided by The Holy Spirit, and we present our requests to
the throne of God through our mediator Jesus
Christ. Worshipping God must spring from the heart, through the influence of
the Holy Spirit.
This is in accordance with [the terms
of] the eternal purpose which He carried out in Christ Jesus our Lord, 12 in whom we
have boldness and confident access through faith in Him [that is, our faith
gives us sufficient courage to freely and openly approach God through Christ]
Ephesians 3:11-12 AMP
وَفْقاً
لِقَصدِهِ الأزَلِيِّ الَّذِي حَقَّقَهُ فِي المَسِيحِ يَسُوعَ رَبِّنا. 12 فَفِي
المَسِيحِ، وَبِالإيمانِ بِهِ، لَنا امتِيازُ الدُّخُولِ إلَى حَضرَةِ اللهِ
بِجُرأةٍ وَثِقَةٍ.
B. Worshipping in Truth
We would be considered worshipping God in truth when
our worship is guided and regulated by The Word of God.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.
فِي
الْبَدْءِ كَانَ الْكَلِمَةُ، وَالْكَلِمَةُ كَانَ عِنْدَ اللهِ. وَكَانَ
الْكَلِمَةُ اللهُ. 2 هَذَا كَانَ فِي الْبَدْءِ عِنْدَ
اللهِ. 3 بِهِ تَكَوَّنَ كُلُّ شَيْءٍ، وَبِغَيْرِهِ لَمْ
يَتَكَوَّنْ أَيُّ شَيْءٍ مِمَّا تَكَوَّنَ. 4 فِيهِ كَانَتِ
الْحَيَاةُ. وَالْحَيَاةُ كَانَتِ نُورَ النَّاسِ.
John 1:1-4
I invite you to repeat the following prayer
for yourself:
Abba Father, thank You for the riches of Your grace upon my life. LORD, I pray that out of Your glorious riches You
strengthen me with power through Your Spirit in my inner being, so that I may worship You in spirit
and in truth. Let all my prayers Lord be guided by The Holy Spirit and by Your
Word. Thank You God that I can present my
prayers to Your throne of grace with boldness and confidence
through faith in Your only begotten Son, my Lord, and Saviour Jesus Christ. To Jesus be the power, the glory,
the majesty, the blessings, and the dominion before all time and now and
forevermore. Amen.
In Him,
Wagdi Henein
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