Drink Jesus - Friday Praise & Pray (for others) July 1, 2022

When Jesus met the Samaritan woman at the well, He called her out for having five ex-husbands and living with her current lover. He then asked her for water to drink. She was stunned that a Jew would speak to a Samaritan because His people and hers weren't on good terms. Never one to be easily stumped for words, Jesus said, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.” (John 4:10). He then added, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” (John 4:13-14)

Like most normal people, the Samaritan woman responded, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.” (John 4:15). And when He told her He was the Messiah, the Samaritan woman ran off to her village and called everyone. Her testimony brought many from not just her town but others to come listen to what He had to say. Over the next two days, many were saved.

One woman went to fetch water at a well, received an overflowing cup of living water, and it indeed became a spring of water in her. It overflowed from her to many others "[a]nd because of his words many more became believers." (John 4:41).

This encounter teaches us to "DRINK JESUS". He is the living water which brings the dead parts of us to life. With five failed marriages under her belt and a live-in-lover, the Samaritan woman was surely shunned in her community. Thank God she didn't think of herself as too inferior to receive from the Messiah. Thank God, none of her past failures stopped her from pouring out a cup of Jesus to others who also came to believe.

How many of us would drink of the living water? How many of us have allowed God's words to make us believe? Or, are we waiting to see in order to have faith in Him? The Bible doesn't record Jesus as having done miracles to convince the Samarians. No, it was His words that moved the people. His words quenched their thirst and changed them. His very message gave the healing, living water they needed not just for their time here on earth but also to get them to eternal life.

Will you let those very words change you? Will you open the Bible and read His messages? Will you take a look at the parables He shared, the prayers He spoke, the miracles He performed. Will you move in faith to receive His living water and be refreshed? All you need to do is ask Jesus to give you some of His living water and have faith! Don't close your heart to Jesus and the great things He has for you and yours.

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