February 23, 2023 … At His Well - Everyday …

Berry Patch Devotions in 2023 - Day 54 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Kristyn Getty singing… Living Waters … poignantly and powerfully singing of how Jesus offers His living waters to all who believe in Him and thirst for His salvation 

Jesus offers His living waters to the Samaritan woman at the well ... 

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Highlight Passage: … John 4:9-10  [NLT] … 

9 The woman was surprised, for Jews refuse to have anything to do with Samaritans.  She said to Jesus, “You are a Jew, and I am a Samaritan woman. Why are you asking me for a drink?”

10 Jesus replied, “If you only knew the gift God has for you and who you are speaking to, you would ask me, and I would give you living water.”  

… Jesus offers the Samaritan woman His living waters of eternal life.                                                                                                  

Highlight Passage (Context): … John 4:1-14 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK …  

… Jesus offers the woman at the well His living waters.          

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Reference Passage: …  Isaiah 12:3 [NLT] … 

3 With joy you will drink deeply from the fountain of salvation.   

… Isaiah prophesies of a joyous day when God’s people will drink freely from the living waters of salvation.   

Reference Passage: …  Jeremiah 2:13 [NLT] … <

13  “For my people have done two evil things: They have abandoned me — the fountain of living water.  And they have dug for themselves cracked cistern that can hold no water at all!   

… God, thru the Prophet Jeremiah, rebukes those who drink from the self-built cisterns of idolatry and sin rather than partaking of God’s living waters.    

Reference Passage: …  Zechariah 14:8 [NLT] … 

8 On that day life-giving waters will flow out from Jerusalem, half toward the Dead Sea and half toward the Mediterranean, flowing continuously in both summer and winter.   

… God, thru the Prophet Zechariah, prophesies of a time when God’s living waters of salvation will flow out from God’s people. 

Reference Passage: …  John 7:38 [NLT] … 

38 Anyone who believes in me may come and drink! For the Scriptures declare, ‘Rivers of living water will flow from his heart.’”   

… Jesus invites any who thirst for the eternal waters of salvation to come and drink from His living waters.     

Reference Passage: …  Revelation 22:17 [NLT] … 

17 The Spirit and the bride say, “Come.” Let anyone who hears this say, “Come.” Let anyone who is thirsty come. Let anyone who desires drink freely from the water of life.   

… God’s open invitation for ANYONE who is thirsty for eternal life to come and drink from God’s eternal waters of life.   

                                                                                                        

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Amy Boucher Pye … AT THIS LINK …  relates the story of a young woman, who left home at 14, seeking love and affirmation, which she didn’t get at home.  And after a failed and dismal marriage and not finding satisfaction in alcohol and drugs, she was befriended and loved by some Christians who showed this thirsty seeker the living waters offered by Jesus.        

Really, that’s the story related in the highlight passage of Jesus befriending the Samaritan woman at the well (see photo), Who offered His living waters of salvation to this woman, who was desperately seeking the love and eternal salvation only Jesus could offer.  And Oh how I pray that all reading here with me have found those eternally satisfying waters that flow from the truth of God’s word, through the only One Who can satisfy our thirst for salvation. 

That’s why I’m here every morning, beginning my day, by drinking from the eternally satisfying waters that my Lord offers me at the well of truth, … His living word.                                   

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for leading me to Your waters of life to drink and be satisfied each day until I drink from those waters in glory with You, King Jesus, … forever.                   

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to drink from Your well of living waters each day, Lord.     … Amen

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