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Jesus Said “Render to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God's.” We all understand what is meant by what is Caesar’s, but what do we render to God? What is it that God wants from us? True worship. A worship that comes from your heart. Render to God a spiritual worship, a simple worship, free of yourself, free of materialism, free of old feasts and traditions, come to God with your spirit. It is your spirit that communicates with God. Because of this spirit, the truth lives in us and will be with us forever. John: 4: 23-24
In this spirit of light, old misunderstanding will die out and a new path will be reveled. The true sign of belonging to God comes from within through the power of the Holy Spirit. God’s Spirit enables us to see the pathways that we are meant to travel, to cancel our sins, to give us the willingness to cancel the sins of those who have sinned against us and to allow us to Love one another free of guilt and misconceptions. No on can live a perfectly good , holy, righteous life. All of us have sinned and made the wrong choices in our lives, but, true sincere worship will empower us to begin the task of living within the Spirit of God. Concerning ourselves less and less about this material world. So how do we begin to offer true worship? First stop worrying about all the physical and material matters of this world. True worship comes through your spirit. Mt 6: 25 - 34Jesus said to his disciples: “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than the clothes? Look at the birds in the air; they do not sow or reap or stow away in barns and yet your Heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life. And why do you worry about clothes? See how lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass in the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will He not much more clothe you? Do you have such little faith? So do not worry, saying ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘ What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things and your Heavenly Father knows that you need them. (Now here is the important part) But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry yourself or about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. The level of spirituality or materialism within each of us can be measured by the manner of our worship. The materialist worships the things of the earth, he will represent God in some framework that fits his beliefs, in order to believe that he beholds God, and if he does not see God according to his theory he will invent a new theory. The Spiritualist knows that God created everything and that the Holy Spirit is his guide to eternal life. The very first commandment given to us by Moses was: You shall not have any other gods before me. Yet, there are many gods that human greed and ambition have forged that erode our ability to offer God, true sincere worship. Mankind continues being pagans and idolaters. We love our bodies more than our spirit. We render worship to the flesh to the point of decadence and even death, to go in pursuit of pleasure. We love the worldly riches more than our heavenly reward and for this we sacrifice our peace and our spiritual future. The result of materialism is a selfish humanity, false and full of bitterness. Every day we are bombarded by advertisements about how we should look, smell, feel, act, drink, eat you name it. Don’t go there! These companies are just trying to make money by convincing you that there product is indispensable to your daily life. It’s not. Living your life guided by the Holy Spirit is! And what is undeniably the first step towards this goal is freeing yourself, your mind, your spirit, from the bondage of this material world. This is how anyone who’s aim it is to become closer to God must begin. Visualize Jesus always before you. He sits at the right hand of God. He will not be shaken. He will not abandon you. Devote yourself to teaching, to fellowship, to charity and to prayer. Let the Holy Spirit, that is within you guide you to your true path in life. Feel His light shining in your heart and shine that light into the dark places of your life and the lives of the people around you. Become a servant of Jesus. Let your heart be glad and let your mind live with hope, Gods all-knowing hand will forever be at your side to guide you through each and every day of your life.
John 10: 27 - 30 Listen for His voice, its there all the time. Communicate with God through your spirit with prayer and sincere true worship. Put forth every effort to live your life with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. Devote yourself to truly and fully worshiping God. Make the most of every opportunity to proclaim your devotion to Jesus Christ. God demands our actions as well as our believing and thinking. Remember actions speak louder than words. You are not here on earth by chance or coincidence. Our life has nothing to do with material things or with the pleasures of the flesh. We are here to complete and fulfill our mission from God. Therefore I urge you to offer yourselves to God, with all your strength, your heart, mind and soul. Do not conform any longer to the foolishness of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your heart and mind, in order that God will be able to act through you. This is your spiritual act of worship. With spiritual worship that is true and deep, an inextinguishable flame will be working inside of you. Pursue eternal life, stay away from the traps of material wealth. Don’t corrupt your mind with envy and greed. Don’t be robbed of the truth. A transformation of your life, a complete change of mind will arise from your willingness to accept Jesus as your teacher and follow the path of the Holy Spirit, and learn from your mistakes. Through Love all this is possible. Therefore do not lose heart with momentary problems and circumstances. By comparison, eternal life is far greater than all the suffering one may face in this life. Those of us that believe and work towards eternal life will be granted our reward. For God is the very radiance of Divine Love and Glory. The inward renewal overcomes the outward destruction, and ultimately overcomes even death itself. Jesus Christ who is the Son of God is the image of God in which man was originally created and into which mankind is being transformed. Faith will turn you towards God and repentance will turn you away from sin. This earthly world offers you crowns that only speak of vanity, arrogance, and false grandeur. The Holy Spirit within you is able to surpass those vanities and has reserved for you another crown in the hereafter, which is that of wisdom and Love. Pray and keep your faith which can eliminate all evil thoughts and needs. Liberation from evil and materialism has been provided by God through Jesus and the in dwelling presence and power of the Holy Spirit, however it must be received with sincerity, faith and prayer. Liberation will come to anyone who believes that God knows what is best for them.
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