John 3:31 “He who comes from above is above all, he who is of the earth is from the earth and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all. John 4:7 There *came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus *said to her, “Give Me a drink.” When you approach life; that […]
Jn.4:31 Meanwhile the disciples were urging Him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.” 32 But He said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” 33 So the disciples were saying to one another, “No one brought Him anything to eat, did he?” 34 Jesus *said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him
John 3:7 There *came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus *said to her, “Give Me a drink.” As we said before, Jesus wasn’t looking to just satisfy her thirst for love; He was asking her to satisfy His thirst for love. That was the drink He was asking her to give Him. He was
In John chapter 4 we find the Samaritan woman just living another day like every other day, full of fear, guilt, and shame. Her daily routine involved every day going to the well at noon to draw water for her and her household. As far as she knew, there was nothing special about this day,
When you think back over your life, what marks you? What, in your mind is the headline, front page story that tags and dominates your story. I’ve thought about the woman at the well, and King David. I wonder if when David looked back over his life did he feel that the Bathsheba failure was
Jn.4:7, There *came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus *said to her, “Give Me a drink.” The story of the woman at the well isn’t just the story of Jesus quenching her thirst for love; but it is also the story of her quenching His thirst for love. At the cross Jesus cried out
Col. 1:10 so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; Col. 1:13 For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, It’s
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Heb. 1:3 He is the sole expression of the glory of God [the Light-being, the out-raying or radiance of the divine], and He is the perfect imprint and very image of [God’s] nature, upholding and maintaining and guiding and propelling the universe by His mighty word of power. When He had by offering Himself accomplished
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Ecclesiastes 3:11 says that He makes everything beautiful in its time. Sometimes we are like impatient children who demand an answer immediately, but God’s infinite wisdom transcends our temporal demands for understanding. It scares us to not be in control, and our fear-driven desire to know and understand everything, is an expression of unbelief that
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Jn.4:1-4 Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John 2 (although Jesus Himself was not baptizing, but His disciples were), 3 He left Judea and went away again into Galilee. 4 And He had to pass through Samaria. According to Jn.1:18, Jesus came to reveal the truth
