Thursday, November 23, 2023

Jesus Told The Woman He Is Messiah

 Jesus Told The Woman He Is Messiah


Jesus Told The Woman He Is Messiah explains how the Lord revealed His identity as God to a non -Jewish woman in order to save her from her sins.

Last time, we saw how He met this woman at a well in Samaria and talked with her about the living water of everlasting life.







Jesus had previously revealed to the woman that she had been married five times. She was shocked that He knew these things about her. 

As they continued to talk, the woman said to Him, ‘I know that the Messiah is coming’ (the one called Christ). Whenever He comes, He will tell us everything.’ 


Jesus said to her, ‘I, the one speaking to you, am the Messiah.’ 





The disciples returned from the city



This was the very moment that Jesus' disciples came back from the city where they had gone to buy food.  

They were shocked because Jesus was speaking with a woman from Samaria. However, no one asked her what she wanted. 

Nobody asked Jesus why He was speaking with a woman from Samaria. 






The woman left the water jar and ran off the tell everybody about Jesus


On hearing Jesus say that He was the Messiah, the woman excitedly dropped her water jar. 

She sped off to the town and said to the people, ‘Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Surely He is the Messiah!

On hearing her words, the people left the town and began running to the well to see the Messiah firsthand.






Meantime the disciples urged Jesus to eat

After the woman left, Jesus' disciples urged Him to eat.  

Excited that more people were going to be saved, He replied,
‘I have food to eat that you know nothing about.’ 


The disciples began to say to one another, ‘Did anyone bring Him food to eat?’ 

Jesus said to them, ‘My food is to do the will of the One who sent me and to complete His work."





What is the meaning of  Jesus' name Messiah?


The name Messiah means 

  • Christ.
  • ANOINTED.  
  • Priest of God.
  • Prophet of God.

The Jews and Samritans were looking for the Messiah the King to come from Heaven.  They knew that He would tell them about God and save them from their enemies.  



Jesus Told The Woman He Is Messiah bible verses John 4: 1 - 42 ESV


Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John 

(although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), 

he left Judea and departed again for Galilee.

And he had to pass through Samaria. 

So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 

Jacob's well was there; so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.

7 A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” 

(For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) 

The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) 




10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying 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 water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? 

12 Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.” 

13 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 

14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again.  The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” 

15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”

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




17 The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; 

18 for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.” 

19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. 

20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.” 

21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. 

22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. 

23 But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. 

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 is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things.”

26 Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.”

27 Just then his disciples came back. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you seek?” or, “Why are you talking with her?” 

28 So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, 

29 “Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?” 



30 They went out of the town and were coming to him.

31 Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.” 

32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” 

33 So the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?” 

34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work. 

35 Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest. 

36 Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. 37 For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’ 

38 I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”

39 Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.” 

40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. 

41 And many more believed because of his word. 

42 They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.”




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Thursday, November 16, 2023

Jesus Offers Living Water

 Jesus Offers Living Water

Jesus offers living water is a story about how Jesus used water from a well to tell a woman from Samaria about the Living Water of everlasting life. 

Jesus met the woman as He traveled from Judea to Galilee with  His disciples.  On the way, the Lord came to Jacob's Well and sat near it.

Jesus was tired and thirsty and really needed a drink of water. Meantime, His disciples had gone into the city of Samaria. 


A woman from Samaria came to the well to draw water, so Jesus asked her for a drink.  She was puzzled because Jews did not talk to people from Samaria.

Jesus replied by telling her that God had a gift for her and that she should ask Him for living water.  The woman replied that the well was deep and that Christ could not reach that far. How could you then give me living water, she wondered!

Jesus told her that people who drank living water would never become thirsty again. He told the woman that the living water was everlasting life.

In response, the woman asked the Lord Jesus to give her everlasting life.






Jesus asked the woman to call her husband

On hearing her request for living water, Jesus asked the woman to call her husband.  She said that she had no husband.

Jesus told her that He was pleased that she had told the truth, and that she had been married five times.

The woman was amazed that Jesus told her these private details about her life. She said, Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet." 







Jesus and the woman continued to speak

The woman wanted to challenge Jesus, so she said: 

"Our fathers worshipped on this mountain, and you people say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.’

Jesus replied that a time would come when people would worship the Father neither on the mountain of Samaria nor in Jerusalem. 

He told her that the Samaritans did not know who they were worshiping. Instead, the Jews knew who they were worshiping, because salvation comes through the Jews.






Jesus said that true worshipers would worship God in spirit and in truth

Jesus explained to the woman that a time would  come when the true worshippers would worship the Father in spirit and truth.

He told here that the Father seeks such people to be His worshipers. 

To worship God means to bow down to Him and to obey His Word. It means that the person does not secretly have another god.

Therefore, a true worshiper is someone who loves God and who knows  Him personally. He or she worships Him without pretending to love Him.

This is what it means to worship God in spirit and truth.






Do you have the living water of everlasting life?


Jesus told the woman of Samaria that she needed the living water of everlasting life.  People who want to live forever must believe that Jesus is the Christ who died to save them from their sins.


They must ask for forgiveness of sins and stop sinning.   Jesus will give everlasting life to those who believe in Him and turn away from their sins.

Everlasting life is like water in a well that never dries up. Those who have it live for ever and ever and ever.








Do you worship God in spirit and in truth? 


In order to make God happy, we must bow down and serve no other god. We must always be honest with God, confess our sins and never lie when we do wrong.

God really appreciates honesty and will bless those who always tell Him the truth, like the woman of Samaria.



To be continued.






Jesus offers living water bible verses John 4: 1 - 42 ESV


Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John 

(although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), 

he left Judea and departed again for Galilee.

And he had to pass through Samaria. 

So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 

Jacob's well was there; so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.

A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” 

(For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) 

The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) 

10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying 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 water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? 

12 Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.” 

13 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 

14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again.  The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” 

15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”

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

17 The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; 

18 for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.” 

19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. 

20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.” 

21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. 

22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. 

23 But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. 

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 is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things.”

26 Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.”

27 Just then his disciples came back. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you seek?” or, “Why are you talking with her?” 

28 So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, 

29 “Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?” 

30 They went out of the town and were coming to him.

31 Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.” 

32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” 

33 So the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?” 

34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work. 

35 Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest. 

36 Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. 37 For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’ 

38 I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”

39 Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.” 

40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. 

41 And many more believed because of his word. 

42 They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.”









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Thursday, November 9, 2023

Jesus Calms The Storm

Jesus Calms The Storm

Jesus Calms The Storm is today's amazing story. It shows the Lord's power over winds and waves.   

The event was so impressive that Matthew, Mark, and Luke wrote about it.

Let us read on to learn more.




Jesus calms the storm introduction


This story began one evening after Jesus had finished a long day of teaching. 

He got into a boat with His disciples in order to cross over to the other side of the lake.






Jesus had been busy all day, teaching people about God. 

He was very tired, so He lay down and went to sleep.





A storm arose on the lake


The wind began to blow and the waves got bigger and bigger.

 The little boat bobbed up and down. 

Jesus’ disciples became scared. 




The disciples began to yell!


“Jesus wake up. Help us! The waves are too big, and we are not safe,” they said. 






Jesus awoke and spoke to the storm


Finally, Jesus awoke!

He stood up in the boat and said,

“Wind and waves be still!” 

There was an instant change!

The wind stopped raging!

The waves stopped tossing the boat around! 






The disciples were amazed



Jesus’ disciples were extremely amazed!


“Jesus can even tell the storm to stop. Only God can do that!” they said. 

This miracle helped them to believe that Jesus is the Son of God.




Jesus calms the storm meaning


Sometimes everyone has storms or difficult times in his or her life. 

These can include things like exams at school, difficult subjects,  family problems, times of ill health, and more.

However, Jesus is with those who love Him and who obey His Word.

Like the disciples, we can call on the Lord for help.

This means that we can tell Him the problem and ask for His assistance.

The disciples knew that they were safe with Jesus.  He has all power over everything!

We can trust the Lord Jesus because He said that He will never leave us nor forsake us (Hebrews 13 5).

The Bible also says, “When I am afraid I will trust in you”  (Psalm 56: 3).

We encourage you to trust the Lord for help and not to be afraid.




Jesus calms the storm bible verses - Mark 4: 35 - 41 ESV


35 On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.” 

36 And leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. And other boats were with him. 

37 And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling. 

38 But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke him and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?” 

39 And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

 40 He said to them, “Why are you so afraid? Have you still no faith?” 

41 And they were filled with great fear and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”



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