‘Nothing to Hide - True Worship’
By Stephen Bennett December 12th 2025
Adam and Eve were created in the garden of Eden; pure, without shame, with no need to wear clothes, they were free to fully worship their creator through every part their being (Genesis chp 2-3). However, they listened to another slippery dark voice, who deceived them to live their own way and decide what was good, evil, right, and wrong. They sinned against the warning words of their Creator and brought darkness into the world.
Instead of being free, they hide themselves in the garden, feeling emotions of pain, shame, loss and emptiness. They had something to hide… 4000 years later a woman came to the well of Jacob. She had plenty of sexual shame and sin to hide, but she’d also been spiritually searching all her life. She went to church to worship but still felt empty and lost, until she met Messiah Jesus who told her the real and actual truth…
Temple Delusion
“The song isn’t the worship, you are,” said the disgruntled woman, in her own women’s intuitive wisdom, as she left the building. “What do you mean” called the bewildered and confused man with long dirty fingernails, standing in the entrance doorway; instrument still in hand with a broken string.
“I don’t know, you figure it out… it’s nearly noon, I have more water to fetch,” the woman shouted back as she hurried off down the mountain side to the village at the ancient well of Jacob. “Ha… gosh, men…! How long must I put up with … this time…!?” She muttered to herself, in her steady determined stride.
Gina was of the 50 plus age when she didn’t tolerate the weakness and lack of real leadership in men anymore. Especially after five self-centred husbands who basically used her; she was over it! However, despite her default scarlet reputation in town she still put up with them; men that is. Well… she liked having a man around the house; felt secure and the occasional warm body, and in her current situation with the wanna be musician, she still needed to eat and live! However, by her own admission she was a passionate seeker of intimacy. Married 5 times in an attempt to find it; through love, sex, commitment, home, family, business, she’d tried it all. Yet, still lacked the deepest of things in her quest… the truth.
Her thoughts shifted to the task at hand; pick up her heavy pot from home and get her house water supply at the well. There was no one else to do it, she couldn’t have children anymore, and well… the ‘old man’ couldnt lift a full water pot long enough with those finger nails… his excuse! Gina was over it and just got on with things. The regular morning visit to the Gerazim temple had left its relentless, sticky, religious confusion on her again that day; what was wrong and right in her pursuit of God, and still a corruption of the Jewish faith. This had bugged her for a very long time.
There were not many people around as she approached the well, but Gina saw a man resting on a wooden stool. He immediately seemed to resonate a tangible peace about him; she had not seen that in a man before. Curiosity began to bubble inside as she walked in the sweltering hot sun.
Gina prepared to draw water, she stood still and paused. The penetrating gaze of the curious man seemed to travel right through her. Straightaway with an urgency, he said, “Give Me a drink.” No small talk or pleasantries or even a please, just a warm firm command. She didn’t move…
“Humph…” thought Gina, ‘I guess he’s talking to me, well I know the drill, I’m smart… I’ll ask him…!’ She thought. Then Gina looked up, straight at him; no fear in her eyes, but with a tender heart that began to beat a little faster.
Gina cleared the dust from her throat.“How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” For you Jews have no dealing with Samaritans.” She said confidently, as a slight breeze threw up more dust around their feet.
Gina knew how to react: She didn’t run off, or withdraw, she gave him a ‘fair enough’ blunt question. No problem talking to him, even a Jew; she knew men! She never liked that Jews would not be friendly or treat her and the Samaritans as normal or with any respect when they were around. But she was also curious and interested, and in her pondering decided, ‘I’m not hiding anything today mister, so you better watch out!’
The man said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.” He smiled to himself… ‘Wow… ok we’re on!’ she thought. ‘He’s got me going now…!’
She saw the man didn’t have a water bucket or anything , and she came back with another request and question. “Where then do you get that living water?” “Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this deep well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and livestock?”
The man met her tone with some fun banter in his mind. “Whoever drinks of this water in the well will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life!”
‘Boom! There you go Gina!’ (His unspoken words). Her stomach did a back flip and she felt light on the inside, becoming aware this was no ordinary exchange, but something very deep and spiritual; nothing like she had heard before from anyone. Gina hungered for this level of intelligent exchange for such a long …. “Who is he?” she wondered.
‘He said ‘him’… does that includes women also? Hmm!’ She thought. Gina decided to open up completely and go for it. “Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.”
She was particularly thirsty for truth after her morning at the temple, and in her mind ‘perhaps this is a chance for someone else to get this water for a change, I’m a bit over it…!’ Her searching heart ignited. The man in her eyes paused. He smiled to himself again and gave her His pre-planned test. “Go call your husband to come here,” He said with a curious immediacy.
Straightaway she jumped in and replied with the truth she’d longed for; no more lies, she was sick of it. She could have made up a story, or been embarrassed because of her so called sin, but she just abandoned herself to this man’s unusual conversation, and her intuition was telling her… ‘it’s ok to reply.’ She declared. “I have no husband!”
For a split second Gina held her breath. The man smiled broadly, then blew her away with his understanding, empathy, and a kind compassionate answer. “You have well said, ‘I have no husband,’ for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you spoke truly.” For the first time in a long while she felt a wave of incredible love wrap around her. It seemed, here was someone who appreciated her heart for honesty; she’d got to the point thingking men just didn’t have it! ‘What sort of guy is this!? she thought.
Her whole body felt warm and accepted, feeling seen and heard. “How could this be?” she pondered. She remembered her quandary after the temple service this morning and how her ‘non-husband’ had frustrated her. Then it hit her, it was obvious this Jewish man had been ‘sent’ to talk to her, to help her continual thoughts… it was time to ask THE question!
“Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. Our fathers worshiped on this Gerazim mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship…” She could’ve said more mid-sentence, but she’d said it! Her forever question. ‘I want to worship, but is this really the right place?!’ Her quivering mouth drooped open, staring at him for her long yearned answer…
‘Was… is… this the Messiah?’ she thought to herself, ‘Nah, how could it be…? But how could he have known…my life?!’ Gina was shaking like a leaf, but trying not too. Inside she was melting like a hot candle, her true-self emerging free for the first time in a long while. All she wanted to know was the confusing truth of where the true place of worship is, here or in Jerusalem…. or wherever, as it certainly wasn’t in Gerazim!
The man looked her in the eye and she settled down waiting for her… she did not know what it would… her scattering thoughts were interrupted.“Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father. You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
Gina exploded on the inside, and blurted out with her infectious boldness that drew people to her when she spoke. “I know that Messiah is coming who is called Christ. When He comes, He will tell us all things.” She pondered again… ‘With Him he will show me true worship, I know!’
He looked at her and she at him. All went quiet. The well seemed to disappear, everything was in slow -motion as the water jar fell over, the precious liquid created its own little dancing river where tiny flowers suddenly appeared out of the dust, fully formed.
The man’s voice echoed around her. “I who speak to you am He…He…He…He…”
Every cell in Gina’s body felt alive, she always knew the Messiah would come.“It’s true! This man must be the Jesus people have been talking about in Jerusalem, and He came… here… to talk with me! My brain… ouch... its blown… my thinking… its…!’ Gina felt like running, but she heard another voice speaking with the warmest of tender love swirling all around her…
“Gina… I will tell you what is coming, and actually it starts today with us today chatting at this ancient well. Listen, I just beat up all my priests in Jerusalem because they have become religious hypocrites and false worshippers (John 2). They are not living with an honest heart like you. I do not condemn your life as people have seen you, as I see you!… As you truly are, and now I applaud your struggles and how you kept your heart strong in belief in me. Now that you have heard my word, I will give you a real life to serve me, and my glory will rise on you.”
“Gina, True Worship is not about,‘where do you go,’ but how to humbly follow, and be filled by My Holy Spirit, and it’s then you will have the great power of heaven, to live a transparent honest life 24/7 with nothing to hide. That my dear, is true worship; mind, body, soul, spirit and heart. You knew your shame but you always had hope, and you didn’t hide it from Me. And now I am here for you… and My grace is more than sufficient.”
Gina immediately thought about her finger pickin’ man she left behind this morning, and her constant frustration with the forced temple life to live in the box of restriction. Now she gets it… the voice continued…
“It’s not about buildings or even places that you ‘go to worship God,’ like it is now, that Gina becomes wrong thought and vocabulary. But there is a new army coming right down to the end of time over the next 2000 years, where there will be millions of them; new generations, with new thinking and understanding of what worship is, to bring the freedom that is so desired in mankind. TRUE WORSHIPERS. People who’s lives are a living testimony of the true love of God 24/7!”
“This is what my Father likes and is looking for. People of Spirit and Truth who speak everything truly with pure intent with faith in the love of God, as you do Gina. I will fill you and everyone with My Spirit, and live inside you with the Fathers’s love, and He will live through you this way. Then, what ever you do, be it sing, play music, talk, work, fetch water, everything you do in life, will carry the Spirit, truth and power of the worship of God. It’s all about your faith relationship with Me; that is where the power to bring change comes from… by My Spirit. YOU, Become Worship! … in everyway… it’s not about what you do or where you go…The right doing and going pours out from that because you are led by My Spirit! Not the restirctions of the white washed walls of hypocritical religion! You become FREE in Me to be all you are!”
Gina began to run, “no hiding anymore!” she gasped, racing into town like an athlete; telling everyone breathlessly about who she just met, and what the truth is. Gina was on fire, and went on to start a revival in Samaria that never stopped, but just multiplied.
She stopped for a minute and lifted up her voice like a song.“First I must see my man with that silly broken string… musicians and singers must know this truth, especially him!” She shouted out loud! A flock of birds… in the sky… danced to her shout with joyful rhythmic murmuration.
Jesus watched her running and laughed to himself with such joy. He picked up her water pot and refilled it from the deep well of past history, and tucked it under a table out of the sun. ‘She’ll be back…’ He thought, as he drank a whole cup of liquid history before he left to follow her. ‘I’ll have many people to meet and talk with. Thank you Gina! You will go down in My Holy Book, having first heard one of the most important things I need to get my people to understand now.’
Jesus walked into a fading beautiful golden sunset, with a bronzed chiseled face, heading toward revival town… thinking about the two short days before He comes back to earth in just over 2000 years time… ‘boy what a journey…!’ He thought. Praise You Father for Gina… The Lord smiled widely, briskly walking toward a glorious sun.
After Thought
(Ok, it’s me the author; you can finish the movie in your head now…:) I want to say this: True worship isn’t just a set list performed on a Sunday morning or whatever day. It’s living your life honestly with a level of transparency that has nothing to hide; a clear conscience, knowing who you are in Christ. Knowing who He is and what He’s done for you. You’re able to boldly talk freely with the Lord in faith, anytime any place, having His Spirit filling you and permeating everything you do.
The power of those songs you sing and play on Sunday, an event, or anywhere, even in your room; are the worshiping results of all that life of living in transparent truth with nothing to hide! That’s the truth. What Gina and millions long for!
In the profound short conversation at the ancient well of Jacob, the woman’s sincere questions of life were answered to the point she rushed out with fresh revelation, and caused a revival and transformational change in her community and within herself. She was finally set free from her confusing contemporary religious thinking of the day.
Here me… musicians with ‘modern mended phosphor bronze wound strings!’ In these end-time days, there is an opportunity for you to now discover your song and sound carrying the testimony of Jesus, the spirit of prophecy (Rev 19:10). You will be able to shift atmosphere’s and heal hearts powerfully through the Spirit, in what you play or sing because of the revelation of ‘TRUE WORSHIP’ within you.
Without that Spirit and Truth being lived out in you daily, all you will have is just a song and melody with words. Now is the time for the world to see true worshippers more than ever before! It’s why Jesus the Jew went to the Samaritan water well to give them the living water that Jacob’s well could never give them.
He found a woman; well-lived, intelligent, with an enquiring honest mind who never really fitted into her local life. The hunger game of Gina was a thirst and desire to hear the ‘all things’ of truth; told by THE TRUTH, the name above all names, King of the Universe, Jesus Christ!
She tried to find it all in the accepted societal norms of the relative safety of marriages, but the irony; the love and honesty she craved eluded her. At man number six she broke the rules and just lived with the guy, probably not proud of it, carrying the judgement and shame of others. But never hesitated to be honest and straight with the Lord.
Jesus broke into her world with ‘liquid organic Spirit’; living spiritual water, and with supernatural insight and knowledge of her life. Words that ignited her deeply held desire for truth and all its intimacy. She was a woman who gave herself to life, committed herself to unions with others, had a deeply held love of God in a very religious and dark world.
Jesus, as a Jew, broke the rules of His own societal norm too, and invaded her world with the revelation and understanding of TRUE WORSHIP, setting her free! What a story! What a TRUTH! What a wake up call for humanity!
Written by Stephen Bennett December2025
Founder / Author / Musician / Creative
ETW Music Collective
Photo by Jacob Bentzinger on Unsplash ‘Cross Worship’
Please read Stephen’s book Prophet Musician - As I have Called You. Chapter 7 for a ‘movie’ journey style and study of what True Worship is all about (See ETW Store).
Final Thoughts for today…
None of us have been in the end of the end-times before, with all the invasion of technology we experience on every level of life.
We read about the end-times in the Bible, but now we are actually here, our journey is to understand and learn to navigate it all and to be True Worshippers in a darkening world.
We must be ready as worshippers, and be true sons and daughters of God, ‘led by the Spirit’ (Romans 8:14). One day soon we may not be able to play the games of church protocols as we have known it.
Global societal shifts and changes are accelerating at exponential rates in this world. We all need understanding how to navigate the chaotic and pressured times now and ahead of us as worshipping believers of Jesus Christ. Otherwise our strings will be broken and our sound not heard
However, despite everything, we are designed to worship, be wise, critical intelligent thinkers, and continue living it out on earth while we can. May all the hiding ones now emerge and find truth!
If you’re in struggle street of any kind, God has a family / church / company of people / tribe / a place where you’ll fit; ask God and he will show you.
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It’s a New Era of History
In 2021, I wrote a blog stating; ‘we have now transitioned in this time of immense change, into a New Era of History, both in the world at large, and in the Church.’
Things have never been the same since the plan-demic, and will not be ever again.
‘A New Awakening’ has emerged in the world now, and the TRUTH of the gospel is being preached everywhere like never before. Jesus is exposing falsity at temple tables everywhere. Now, December 2025+, everything is moving forward rapidly. Not just in spiritual awareness, but millions of people are well informed and awakened to the lies, deceptions and agendas of this world, and false religion parading the streets, that were, and still are being enforced upon humanity. (read the blog at the following link)
(https://www.endtimewriters.com/blog/a-new-era-of-history-begins)
Book to Read
Please read Stephen’s book Revelation - The Terrible and the Good. Be clear for yourself about the days we live. (Written in a creative, movie style, in the first person of Apostle John) (See ETW Store).
Resourceful Details
“But the end of all things is at hand; therefore be serious and watchful in your prayers” 1 Peter 4:7. Jesus said; ‘For the things concerning Me have an end’ (Luke 22:37b).
‘He (Jesus) who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming quickly.” Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.”’ Rev 22:20.
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PRAYER OF FAITH: The Call to give your life to Jesus Christ!
No matter where you are in your Christian walk, Jesus is with you; in your triumphs and trials, to the end! If you have never known God; know this;
“Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the world (ages)” Amen’ Matthew 28:20. ‘But he who endures to the end shall be saved. And the gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.’ Matthew 24:13-14.
Pray this prayer from your heart and your spirit will come alive to God, for with him there is hope and a future (Jeremiah 29:11).
“My Father in heaven, I give you my life, I repent of all my sin, recreate me brand new. I give you my heart. Fill me Lord Jesus Christ with Your Holy Spirit. I believe You died for me on the cross, and by Your shed blood, you washed away my sins once and for all. Raise me from my deadness of my life to live a new life, just like you Jesus, when you were raised from the dead; I believe you did that. Make my spirit reborn, and let me come alive too, filled with Your Holy Spirit.”
“I believe I belong to you Lord. Help me to know you well, teach me Your ways, that I become all that I am meant to be. Help me to love and find love. I thank you Lord that you will always be with me, Amen.”
If you have genuinely prayed this prayer to Jesus Christ, in your seeking of God, or you’re coming back to Him, DM Instagram or FB or email info@endtimewriters.com. Talk to other Christians you may know, and seek to find a solid believing Church where you can grow.
(Click-link, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHZiIah2glY for the song 23 by Stephen Bennett, blog author. From Psalm 23 to minister peace and hope to you… ‘The Lord is my shepherd / I shall not want).
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