In the war room last night i had a revealation that we desire to be like jesus right and Jesus meet people where they were and aren't we supposed to do the same? Perfect example of this would be the women of the well in John4:4-25. For example a drug addict, do we go and said sober up now or i not going to be your friend, no you are there for them in every step of the way as a friend when they are in the worst state high on crank or whatever or when he or her is been clean for a few months. Am i am right or i am wrong on this?
Now he had to go through Samaria. So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Will you give me a drink?" (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
9The Samaritan woman said to him, "You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?" (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.[a])
10Jesus 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? 12Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?"
13Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."
15The 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."
16He told her, "Go, call your husband and come back."
17"I have no husband," she replied.
Jesus said to her, "You are right when you say you have no husband. 18The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true."
"Sir," the woman said, "I can see that you are a prophet. 20Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem."
Jesus declared, "Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth."
The woman said, "I know that Messiah" (called Christ) "is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us."
Then Jesus declared, "I who speak to you am he."
Let me know your thoughts on this one. thanks and grace and blessings.
Posse out
RB
2 comments:
I agree RB. Jesus went and met the people at their place. I've had this conversation with a few people before. Most people are not going to come to us. We need to meet them where they are at.
Grace
Andrew
ps - hope all is well in beautiful Vancouver.
Hey Rebekah, you're bang on about the meeting people where they are at - so that means that you need to go to the places they are and wait for them - pigeon park, the pub, the alley, etc. However, there is another part that to that account of Jesus, where He engaged her and spoke God's heart to her. In 1 Corinthians 14:24-25 as well as in the woman at the well account it is clear that when you are faithful to give the prophetic word to the unbeliever, "the secrets of his heart will be laid bare. So he will fall down and worship God, exclaiming, "God is really among you!"
grace!
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