Worship is a means of grace whereby the word of God comes to the soul with transforming power. Some of the changes wrought by worship are undetectable to the soul; but the experience of worship has highs and lows. If the word is dwelling richly in the exercise of the faculties, and the worshipper is having fellowship with the Trinity through a spiritual understanding of divine illuminations, then there is a purification experience as the word is being grafted in and the divine influence follows the divine communication. In other words, the worshipper is sanctified by the word and the experience of worship, through the power of the Holy Spirit.The quality of the detail in a doctrine is important because it communicates the personal effects of transformation. God communicates Himself through His word, so that souls can be satisfied with the paradigm of these spiritual senses. Once the senses receive the communication of the spiritual effects of all that Christ is, there is a heightened spiritual pleasure. The soul cannot be satisfied in any other way when it is in a natural state of fluctuation due to the flesh waring against the nature of Gods divine communication. In other words, when we receive communication from God that is in line with what our spiritual senses are expecting, we are filled with pleasure. This is because our souls are designed to hunger for God and His communication. However, when we are in a natural state, our flesh often wars against God's divine communication, leaving us in a state of fluctuation.This is how grace works: the Holy Spirit communicates with us spiritually, renewing our souls. When we take part in the body and blood of Christ in these elements, we are sharing in the fellowship of His suffering.The reality of this battle we have with the flesh and with Satan is that we must share in the suffering of Christ in order to communicate His grace. The spiritual effects of His resistance to this whole paradigm of adversity become our help in the communication of these elements of grace.We are infused with a spiritual sense of our union with Christ. This new conversion to our understanding of the fellowship in His forgiveness and full pardon of being drawn into a heightened experience of His favor gives us confidence that we will be protected from harm and that we will be able to defeat the enemy of our souls. We rejoice in this new understanding of our strength and power.This communication from Christ about His dominion over all things in the divine renewal helps us to understand our role in sharing in this infusion of grace. The grace of the sacraments has increased our faith more than any other means that we can experience, and this is from years of meditating on Psalm 22 and taking these elements in as means of grace.
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