Streams of Living Water

Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink! 38  He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”   John 7:37-38

1 Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John 2 (although Jesus himself didn’t baptize, but his disciples), 3 he left Judea and departed into Galilee. 4 He needed to pass through Samaria. 5 So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down 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 The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

10 Jesus answered 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. So where 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 did his children and his livestock?”

13 Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, 14  but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I don’t get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw.”

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

17 The woman answered, “I have no husband.”

Jesus said to her, “You said well, ‘I have no husband,’ 18  for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly.”

19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”

21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father. 22  You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews. 23  But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers. 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 comes, he who is called Christ. When he has come, he will declare to us all things.”

26 Jesus said to her, “I am he, the one who speaks to you.” 

John 4:1-26

Dear Heavenly Father, 

I believe you sent Jesus to the cross to die for my sins.  I ask you to forgive me and I ask Jesus to come into my heart and to be my personal Lord and Savior today.  I promise to be obedient and follow you all the days of my life, In Jesus  Name.  Amen!

If you said that prayer, please email me and let me know, 

today at mtygod1@juno.com.

11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.  Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV)

1 Yahweh, you have searched me,

and you know me.

2 You know my sitting down and my rising up.

You perceive my thoughts from afar.

3 You search out my path and my lying down,

and are acquainted with all my ways.

4 For there is not a word on my tongue,

but, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.

5 You hem me in behind and before.

You laid your hand on me.

6 This knowledge is beyond me.

It’s lofty.

I can’t attain it.

7 Where could I go from your Spirit?

Or where could I flee from your presence?

8 If I ascend up into heaven, you are there.

If I make my bed in Sheol,* behold, you are there!

9 If I take the wings of the dawn,

and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea,

10 even there your hand will lead me,

and your right hand will hold me.

11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me.

The light around me will be night,”

12 even the darkness doesn’t hide from you,

but the night shines as the day.

The darkness is like light to you.

13 For you formed my inmost being.

You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

14 I will give thanks to you,

for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

Your works are wonderful.

My soul knows that very well.

15 My frame wasn’t hidden from you,

when I was made in secret,

woven together in the depths of the earth.

16 Your eyes saw my body.

In your book they were all written,

the days that were ordained for me,

when as yet there were none of them.

17 How precious to me are your thoughts, God!

How vast is their sum!

18 If I would count them, they are more

 in number than the sand.

When I wake up, I am still with you.

19 If only you, God, would kill the wicked.

Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!

20 For they speak against you wickedly.

Your enemies take your name in vain.

21 Yahweh, don’t I hate those who hate you?

Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?

22 I hate them with perfect hatred.

They have become my enemies.

23 Search me, God, and know my heart.

Try me, and know my thoughts.

24 See if there is any wicked way in me,

and lead me in the everlasting way.  Psalm 139:1-24 

Living water is a biblical term that is in both the Old and New Testament. In Jeremiah 2:13 and 17:13, a prophet describes God as "the spring of living water", who has been forsaken by his chosen people Israel. Jesus told this woman to call her husband, pointing out her sin's in having sexual relations with many  men that were not her husbands "outside marriage".  As Jesus disclosed to her that she had five husbands at that.  The point is that in order to come to God you must come to Him through the work Jesus did on the Cross.  By repenting and turning from sin, and being obedient to God and following Him all the days of your life.

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Hebrews 4:12

13 There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.  Hebrews 4:13 

Jesus the Great High Priest

14 Having then a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let’s hold tightly to our confession. 15 For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin. 16 Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.  Hebrews 4:14-16

 Dear Heavenly Father, 

I want to lift this precious partner up to you today in prayer, you God Almighty know what they are going through today.  Whatever it may be, sickness, loneliness, depression, anxiety, perhaps suicide throughts, loss of a loved one, living in fear, need of finances.  God you are there with them, as they received you today.  

Scriptures to look up for:

 Sickness:        

                         Isiaha 53:4, Isiaha 53:

Loneliness:        

          Genesis 2:18

          Psalm 68:6

Depression:        

            Psalm 3:3       

            Psalm 41:3   

Anxiety: 

             Phillippians 4:6-7

Suicide:    

             Isiaha 41:10

             John 10:10  

Loss of a Loved One:            

             Revelation 21:4 

             Psalm 34:18

             Psalm 147:3

Fear:   

             Psalm 23:4

             2 Timothy 1:7

Protection:  

              Psalm 91

There is a scripture for all your needs in the Bible.  Jesus said "Seek me with all your heart and you will find me".  Reading the Bible every day as Psalm 1 reads, You will be Blessed!  You may go to these scriptures and learn what God say's about the situation you may be facing today.  He backs up what He say's.  You are Victorious In Christ Jesus When You Believe!