DAY 4 - Was The Style of Worship Wrong Or Was It Your Heart?

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Today's Reading: John 4

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"God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth."

John 4: 24

What I heard from Jesus today is unusual: How was your worship last Sunday?

How do you answer this question?

a. Oh, boring

b. the music was boring

c. sermon was too long and I was bored to death

d. the whole worship is too long and I was so hungry that I couldn't wait for lunch...

Well, you may have more to say and complain. But why couldn't you worship the Lord? How could a style of worship block you from worshiping God if you have a heart to worship Him? What is more important? God or style of worship?

The Samaritan woman thought she worshiped God but her lifestyle was messed up. Then when she met Jesus and true worship flowed from her soul, she stopped the thing she was doing in order to do the thing she never did - to bring others to worship God!

Was the style of worship wrong or was it your heart?

Dear Lord Jesus,

Help me to have a heart to worship you not only on Sunday but daily. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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Welcome! The purpose of this blog is to encourage those who join our Disciplers 123 to have a place to start their daily devotion - a wonderful and intimate time with Jesus.

There are three reasons for you to use this blog as your daily devotion:

1. A healthy spiritual diet - One chapter of the Bible daily. We really need at least one chapter of Bible daily so that we are well fed.
2. A good example of Spiritual Journaling - What I have committed for 1,189 days(the Bible has 1,189 chapters) to write this daily post is not for teaching purposes but this is my daily spiritual journal - I write down what I hear from Jesus and how I experience His intimate relationship with me each day. I have launched a wide-spectrum research on daily devotion and have found out that there are less than 10% of Christians that are having daily devotion. Out of that 10%, many having daily devotion are doing so because of guilt (they know that they are Christians and need to have daily devotion and feel guilty if they don’t do that), duty (they need to fulfill their duty as a Christian) or study(lots of Christians primarily use their daily devotion as a time to study the Bible). I do pray and hope that you will make up your mind to have a relational daily devotion so that you can have an intimate time with Jesus. I pray that you will write your own spiritual journal as well.
3. An online discipler – One of the reasons that so many Christians do not have daily devotion is because they do not have a discipler. A discipler can help them build up this basic element of discipleship when they first become Christians. The best way for you is to have a discipler to walk with you for a certain period of time so that daily devotion become a good habit. Or, you may have a small group of two to three people to encourage and be accountable to each other so that you won’t stop your daily devotion. I offer myself as your online discipler to walk with you daily to enrich your spiritual journey. So, shall we start this journey with Jesus Christ our Lord now!