Speaking the words of Jesus!

Many believers speak the words of God but they fall on deaf ears.

This happens because believers are not speaking under the authority of the Holy Spirit. 

God knows every detail of those people who will cross your pathway today. He knows what words are powerful and those words that will create unbelief or anger. 

The believer must be anointed by the Holy Spirit and equipped with the gifts of the Holy Spirit to be a powerful witness.

Jesus walked all day and was thirsty. He saw the Samaritan woman by the well and struck up a conversation. He asked for a drink of water from the well.

The woman said why are you dealing with me because Jews have nothing to do with Samaritans. This was Jesus acting with unconditional love and no barrier to race or religion. 

Then Jesus said “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.”

Jesus has now revealed He is a gift from heaven and tells her she should be asking Him for Living Water.

The woman still is confused about Jesus and says “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water? 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?”

The rivers of Living Water!

Jesus responded and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, 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.”

Jesus explains He is the source of the Living Water which is the gift of salvation and everlasting life.

The woman then says “Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.” The woman is asking for the gift of salvation.

The woman is not clean from her past. Jesus confronts her with words of knowledge.

The Holy Spirit convicts you of hidden sin!

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

The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.”

Jesus said to her, “You have well said, ‘I have no husband,’ for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you spoke truly.”

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

Jesus has uncovered the sin in this woman’s life. She now believes Jesus is a prophet and questions Him about where you worship God—on this mountain or in Jerusalem.

I am a Spirit. Worship Me in Spirit and Truth!

Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father. You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. 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. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Jesus tells the woman the time is near (for his death and resurrection). He explains God is a Spirit and we are to worship Him in spirit and truth. The location is not important. Jesus is everywhere. 

Jesus has set the example of how a believer can be a powerful witness. He lives under the authority of the Holy Spirit and speaks the words he hears from God.

The anointed words of God will never return void. They will accomplish what God pleases and will prosper in the thing for which God sent it.

The Samaritan woman was convicted by the Holy Spirit through the words of knowledge spoken by Jesus. The words validated Jesus as the Son of God and created awe and respect in the woman’s heart.

She returned to her village and told everyone about Jesus and many became believers.