In the book of John, one of the first healing, and a sign of God’s love situations we see is where the woman at the well had an unexpected encounter with a Jewish man Who was so much more than she could have imagined. Here was a woman who had gone from one man to another looking for love as they say in all the wrong places. Her life was pretty dull and mundane reflecting a routine that was anything but satisfying. Her current man was not even her husband.
This woman needed a deep revelation of the love of the Father in heaven, the only One Who would satisfy her longing soul and fill her with His goodness, so she would never again have to depend on a man. She came to draw the natural water, but the Living Water was standing right there in front of her, ready to break open her dry bucket and cause it to overflow.
I remember when I first was led to go to Northridge Church in Plymouth Michigan, my life was much like that Samaritan woman. I hadn’t grown up in Church, but by God’s design, I was baptized by choice at the age of 8. By the time I landed in a back seat at this church, crying my heart out, I was in the same kind of place she must have been in; broken and empty. I had been married to the wrong man for many years, and there was a couple other very short term situations, that really were not a marriage at all.
I had spent 24 years in a very religious church, and when my husband at the time and I divorced, I was in a situation with someone in my life that nearly destroyed me, but for the grace of God. Our pastor was a wonderful man in his mid-forties, and he was taking the church he pastored to a new place. He called it, “not church as usual.” When he taught, he really had my attention. I kept coming back to hear more. Slowly, I began to move up from the back row toward the front. I was almost mesmerized by his teaching of the Bible. I had never heard these things before after raising two daughters in a Lutheran church. As he spoke and the music played and the illustrations became alive in me, I was being drawn by the Father into a love walk that would capture and fill my heart for eternity!
Then one day, not long after I had started going there, it happened. I heard a sermon that “put the icing on the cake” so to speak. It showed how much of a mess my life had become and exposed my desperate need for God’s love. I was 49 and 10 months when my “meeting with Jesus at the well of Living Water” happened. The Lord had opened my heart and eyes to see Him in a way I never had before.
I went home from that service, October of 2005, and I dropped to my knees beside my bed and I simply called on the Lord from my heart and asked Him to fix me. This is a place that, as of today, over 20 years later, the Lord calls me to stay. Not in my spiritual maturity or wisdom, but in that tender place of knowing my need is for Him alone, above all else. That place of humility, trust, and the joy in knowing how loved I am.
From that moment on, I had a burning desire to tell others about Jesus, and I have told thousands by now about Him, whether on a plane or in a store or restaurant, or in the marketplace, just everywhere. Like that woman at the well who got filled with a love that would never run dry, I was also filled with His eternal love. This is proof once again that it is God’s will to save, restore, heal and deliver us from all evil.
Healing comes in all kinds of ways. The Samaritan woman had the whole in her heart filled up with Living Water that day, just as I did when I ran to the Father and cried out to Him in 2005. Friend, it is God’s will to bring us to 100% restoration in our lives, not just a little, but fully. He makes us new, complete in Him. Look at this…
and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power. (Col. 2:10)
This encounter is recorded so that all the world can know there One Who will always love us more than anyone ever could or would. This book is being written to show you beyond a shadow of a doubt that it is in God’s love that it is His will to heal, but we must receive it by faith, and He has given to us all a measure of faith.
For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith. (Romans 12:3)
To finish this story, let’s look at what Jesus told her…
Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” Jesus answered and said to 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.”
The woman said to Him, “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?” Jesus answered 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.” The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.” (John 4:9-14)
There’s more to this story, but you see the point. He invited her that day to get filled with a love that would heal her wounded heart that would never run dry! Later in the scriptures, the disciples were amazed at what He was doing when they came back from lunch, but He was busy doing what He does best, being The Healer to a broken woman’s spirit and soul.
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