A few years ago, I was leading worship at a church overseas at a service they called “Hunger Night.” It was my first time at this church and I didn’t really know what to expect. Once I started leading worship, however, the hunger for Jesus in the room skyrocketed and we went places in the Spirit that I hadn’t been to that often in corporate worship times. Their hunger put a demand on the anointing in a way that I wasn’t used to. It pulled greatness out of me and called me higher as a worship leader.

I remember one night, scrolling through Instagram, a guy’s post of his song came up. As I watched, I could feel what he was saying. He sang with such conviction and authenticity that it moved me. To be clear, he wasn’t actually worshipping, but he was expressing his heart. And expressing it in true authenticity. I thought—this is exactly what “in truth” is.

In John 4, Jesus said some profound things about worship. Out of all the things that God is looking for (which the Bible doesn’t list a ton of things), He is looking for worshippers. True worshippers. The kind that worship in spirit and in truth.  But what does that mean? I don’t know about you, but I want to be the kind of person God is looking for. So let’s look closer at what it means to worship in spirit and in truth.