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What exactly does it mean to worship in spirit and in truth? How do you do it?

Jesus and the Samaritan Woman
…23But a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father is seeking such as these to worship Him. 24 God is Spirit, and His worshipers must worship Him in spirit and in truth.” 25The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When He comes, He will explain everything to us.”…
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FreddieUK · 70-79, M
Worshipping in spirit (note not the Spirit) means from our very depth of being and the truth is not being hypocritical. The Holy Spirit will be there when we worship that way. The woman was arguing about institutions i.e. where to worship, but Jesus was talking about how to worship. Since the Cross, the Temple or any other geographical point has become irrelevant.

Then the passage you quote shows us that the woman was truly waiting for Messiah/Christ even though she was a sinful Samaritan. She was more perceptive than the Jewish leaders.
saintsong · 41-45, F
@FreddieUK I love this!!!
FreddieUK · 70-79, M
@saintsong Thank you.
saintsong · 41-45, F
As for me, being lead by the Spirit such as the fragrance of life, the hand of the Lord, hearing prophecy like the truest things I've ever heard... And in truth... Obeying all the truth that I've learned from the WORD being anchored by it, lead by it, honor God by obeying Him, then the feelings will come. I don't know I'd like to dive deeper into this one and get it right!
Zonuss · 46-50, M
You Worship the Most High in Spirit and Truth.

It means speaking of Tongues as the Spirit gives utterance.
saintsong · 41-45, F
@Zonuss I believe that I spoke in REAL TONGUES before and it was not like babbling nor the clucking of a chicken but the words spoken over a Christian radio station by kids all over north America in a call in show...The first child said "There is a young lady who just wishes that somebody would just touch her and view her as a gift!" The second caller said "Inner beauty comes from a calm and gentle spirit!" The third kid said "He who is without sin cast the first stone!!!" And the last one said " He who calls upon the Lord He will show them great and mighty things that of which you did not know!!!" I saw a bright light and my husband came home from doing drugs, when I repeated those words I had just heard to him, when I spoke an incredible power overwhelmed me and came over me where I held my throat and the words came out like breathing as I repeated those words that the children spoke to my husband! To me that is the real meaning of speaking in tongues of men and of Angles not like they do in pentecostal churches where they shake and blabber their mouths off, That night my husband quit doing drugs and he told me it was because he loves me. 1 Corinthians 13
New International Version
13 If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

That mirror to me is like watching a TV in modern days and seeing MY OWN REFLECTION! May I note that the prophecy was that there is a young lady who just wishes that somebody would just touch her and view her as a gift??? Well up until that point I could feel an invisible hand touching me, from caressing my cheek to resting on my shoulder and I had refused to be comforted because I didn't know up until then that it was actually the HAND OF THE LORD!!! So now I want the LORD TO TOUCH ME AND TO VIEW ME AS A GIFT!! I want to be in the light for all to see!! You are the light of the world a city built on a hill cannot be hidden! These movies are my miracle to go out into the worlds and take as many new Christians with meeeee!!! Love ya hope this made sense of that!

Oh yes and that was when I believed that...2 Timothy 3:16-17
New International Version
16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God[a] may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
H1raeth · 36-40, M
I always though it means you gotta be true about who God is and how He's blessed us.
The worship music must be music we know God probably appreciates. e.g. choirs and harps.

I don't know for definite though. These are just my recent thoughts about what this might mean.

 
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