THEME:
At a lonely well in Samaria, a woman came looking for water and found something far greater. Jesus met her there. He saw her thirst for something more and offered living water that would never run dry. That same Jesus, who met her at a well, first came to us as a baby in Bethlehem. The Giver of living water entered our dry, weary world to bring life and hope to anyone who would receive him. When everything else fades away, you’ll find that you need is right in front of you. It’s just Jesus. It really is that simple. Don’t hide from him. Don’t turn away. Let him in.
KEY SCRIPTURE:
John 4:1-42
John 4:4:1-4
Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. And he had to pass through Samaria.
You can let Jesus in because he will go to any length to reach you
John 4:7-9
A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.
John 4:10
Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
John 4:11-12
The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.”
Jesus knows what you need, and when you need it
John 4:13-14
Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.
John 4:15
The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”
Don’t ignore Jesus – he came to offer you abundant and eternal life
Isaiah 7:14b
Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Isaiah 53:5-6
But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Isaiah 61:1
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound…
John 4:25-26
The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things.” Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.”
John 4:42
They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.”
Will you finally say yes to Jesus?