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THE LIVING WATER - THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION)

THE DAILY FOUNTAIN DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE OF THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION)


DATE: THURSDAY, 17TH FEBRUARY, 2022 


TOPIC: THE LIVING WATER 


TEXT: JOHN 4: 1-26


1. Therefore, when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John

2. (though Jesus Himself did not baptize, but His disciples),

3. He left Judea and departed again to Galilee.

4. But He needed to go through Samaria.

5.  So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

6.  Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from [His] journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

7.  A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give Me a drink."

8.  For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

9.  Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, "How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.

10.  Jesus answered and 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."

11.  The woman said to Him, "Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water?

12.  "Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?"

13.  Jesus answered and said to her, "Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again,

14.  "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."

15.  The woman said to Him, "Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw."

16.  Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here."

17.  The woman answered and said, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You have well said, 'I have no husband,'

18.  "for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you spoke truly."

19.  The woman said to Him, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet.

20.  "Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you [Jews] say that in Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship."

21.  Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father.

22.  "You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews.

23.  "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.

24.  "God [is] Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."

25.  The woman said to Him, "I know that Messiah is coming" (who is called Christ). "When He comes, He will tell us all things."

26.  Jesus said to her, "I who speak to you am [He."]


MESSAGE: 

The story of how the Samaritan woman met the Messiah is a reconciliatory one. The Jews despised the Samaritans because of their mixed Gentile blood and their different worship style. Jesus' decision to pass through Samaria was unpopular to the disciples because of this. Jacob's well in Sychar was a useful water source for the people. Jesus took a long journey to get to the well with so much weariness, just to reach one soul? That shows the importance of a soul.


The phrase "Give Me a drink" in verse 7 speaks volumes. It shows Jesus and his disciples were thirsty, weary, tired and famished from a very distant journey. It opened an opportunity for Jesus to interact with the woman. It enabled Jesus to introduce Himself as the living water which the woman and every thirsty soul needs. This water, when drunk, will become A fountain of water springing up into everlasting life. We should not allow any religious barrier to hinder this as in verses 9, 11, 13, 15 and 17-18. What is your own barrier to receiving this water of life - spouse, race, culture, religious differences, family dispute, place of worship or status in society? Jesus is the bridge to cross over to salvation. 


PRAYER: 

Lord, please give me this living water to drink, that I may not thirst for evil anymore.

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