KINGDOM OF HEAVEN TAKEN BY PRAYER 2/10 (WILLIAM HUNGINGTON)

 

Secondly, we repent with an evangelical repentance, that brings us towards God; not with a legal repentance only, such as Judas had, for that drives us from God. And, thirdly, we "worship God in spirit and in truth, for God seeks such worshippers to worship him," John iv. 23. To "worship God in the Spirit" shows that a man must be inspired, and approach God with a spiritual mind, with a spiritual understanding, 1 Cor. xiv. 15; with spiritual affections; and to pray as the Spirit operates on him, 2 Sam. vii. 27; and "gives him utterance," Acts ii. 4. "The words of his mouth must be the meditation of his heart," Psal. xix. 14. He must pray in spiritual faith, James, i. 6. He must plow in spiritual hope, Prov. xiii. 12. And in spiritual expectation, Hab. ii. 1. Yea, he must pray against everything of which the Spirit convinces him to be evil, 1 Cor. iv. 10.