Prayer Service 4-19-23

Adoration

Spirituality

Lexham Survey of Theology (God’s Spirituality)

God’s spirituality is the divine attribute that states that God’s being is spiritual, thus God is neither material nor composite in nature. — LST

Lexham Survey of Theology (God’s Spirituality)

To proclaim with Jesus Christ that “God is Spirit” (John 4:24) is to assert that God’s being is immaterial, invisible, and simple.

God has no body, no composite parts, and no physical dimensions. Therefore, God is present everywhere and can be worshiped anywhere (John 4:21). As Spirit, God cannot be destroyed, contained, or controlled by any creature.

Some have depicted God’s spiritual nature as a reference to an eternal mind or an energy force because it is tempting to imagine God’s attributes in familiar human categories.

Yet God cannot be so classified; his spirituality is not confined by human understanding.

Lexham Survey of Theology (God’s Spirituality)

Although angels are spiritual beings and humans are physical-spiritual beings, God’s spirituality is an incommunicable attribute in that his spirituality is both infinite and uncreated, while all other spirits are created and therefore finite.

Hence, another reason for:

Exodus 20:4–6 (ESV)

4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them...

John 4:13–24 (ESV)

13 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again,

14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”

16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”

17 The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’;

18 for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.”

19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.

20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”

21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.

22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.

23 But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.

24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

The Connotation of:

1 Corinthians 3:16 (ESV)

16 Do you not know that you (y’all) are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? (emphasis mine)

also:

2 Corinthians 3:11–18 (ESV)

11 For if what was being brought to an end came with glory, much more will what is permanent have glory.

12 Since we have such a hope, we are very bold,

13 not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face so that the Israelites might not gaze at the outcome of what was being brought to an end.

14 But their minds were hardened. For to this day, when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it taken away.

15 Yes, to this day whenever Moses is read a veil lies over their hearts.

16 But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed.

17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

18 And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

Confessing the Faith: The 1689 Baptist Confession for the 21st Century (II. God and the Holy Trinity)

The Lord our God is one, the only living and true God. He is self-existent and infinite in being and perfection. His essence cannot be understood by anyone but Him. He is a perfectly pure spirit. He is invisible and has no body, parts, or changeable emotions.

He alone has immortality, dwelling in light that no one can approach. He is unchangeable, immense, eternal, incomprehensible, almighty, in every way infinite, absolutely holy, perfectly wise, wholly free, completely absolute

Attribute is Implied in:

1 Timothy 1:17 (ESV)

17 To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

1 John 1:5 (ESV)

5 This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

1 Timothy 6:15–16 (ESV)

15 ...he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords,

16 who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.

And also, gloriously:

John 1:18 ESV

18 No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known.

Prayer of Adoration

Supplication

Ephesians 3:20 (ESV)

20 Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us,

Health Needs

Luke Thacker (and family): Bone Cancer in shoulder

Dan Larsen, Tony Bridges: Recovery from heart surgery

Martha Orr: Leukemia

Mark Hill, Hope Sanders: Liver Transplants

Ty Benton: Bladder Cancer, Dementia

Lou Jones, Makenna Cook, Randy Young, Allen Garver

Miscellaneous Needs:

Kace Jones and children (Myles in particular): Car Wreck

Rich’s Cousin Ramona: Bereavement of her son

Andrew, Children, and Wife

Believers in Nigeria: Intense persecution

Help/Blessing for our Congregation

Wisdom/fear of the Lord for our leaders:

Civil

Ecclesiastical

Repentance for our Nation