READ: John 4:4
CHALLENGE: Encounter God
A. GOD WORKS IN DAILY LIFE
Vv4-9 – Now he had to go through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. There’s a well credited to Jacob. It’s noon.
1.God Works in Hostile
2.God Works in the Daily Grind
3.God Works to Bridges Barriers
4.God Works Through Common Analogies from Life
Isaiah 64:7 – No one calls on your name or strives to lay hold of you; our sins. God tells them, you’re not even trying! There is a well but we need to come to the well. Have we had that encounter with God? Do we seek?
Psalm 42:1-2, 5 – As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God.2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.?V5 – Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.
B. OUR MESSED UP WORLD NEEDS A DEEP SPIRITUAL CONNECTION TO GOD.
Vv10-14 – Jesus answered her, “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.”11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”13 Jesus answered, .”15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”16 He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”17 “I have no husband,” she replied..”
Revelation 21:6 – He said to me: “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life.
14 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.”
He offers living water for free! Come to the well!