SHARE Magazine July 2017 | Page 19

“An Eagle worships in flight, a stallion worships with every majestic stride, the fish, the ant and all of God’s creation worship through their nature.” pursuit of God into a legalistic, religious system of rules, formulas and programs. The Church has been in a ‘rat race` to see who can be the best, the biggest, the most anointed. Winning Souls is no longer about producing sons but increasing membership. Our mailing list is longer than our prayer list. We must wake up and smell the dead roses and spend more time in prayer. The number one purpose of man is to worship his Creator and to do this he must become or be who he was created to be. An eagle worships in flight, a stallion worships with every majestic stride, the fish, the ant and all of God’s creation worship through their nature. Only mankind have corrupted, lost the purpose of their nature. That’s why God released the plan of salvation, to redeem us back to who we were. Let me just say this here, salvation was never meant to save us from hell... first; but to restore us to God. We have spent so much time and effort trying to escape hell that we have missed His love by miles, hence we are struggling to live free for God, without God. Religion has always been satan’s design for man. This is the greatest deception. Many go to a place of worship on a special day - completely oblivious to the deception they are walking into. Jesus told the woman of Samaria, ”ye worship ye know not what.’’ John 4:22. This was in response to her declaration of her life of worship and service to God. ‘’Or fathers worship on this mountain...” They were worshipping for generations at that place in ignorance. I believe many in our time are in this same place. Our worship is empty, heartless and ridged because there is no relationship. We have become a people in need of external systematic controls because we are not internally governed by the Holy Spirit. Welcomed well into a Church building, just like the woman at the well, we can point to a place of worship but we cannot see the Person to worship right in front of us. THE TOWER OF BABEL “Come let us build ourselves a city and a tower whose top will reach to heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name; lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.’’ Genesis 11:4 Abraham offers a profound contrast to the men of Babel. He was of a different spirit, the men of Babel strove to build for themselves (religion). Abraham proved time after time his willingness to give up everything