He forgives Sinners! 5/14/15

Day 134 - Reading the New Testament in one year.

https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/niv/John.4

John 4:1-30

Jesus Talks With a Samaritan Woman
4 Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John— 2 although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. 3 So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.

4 Now he had to go through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.

7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” 8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)

9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.[a])

10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”

11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”

13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”

16 He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”

17 “I have no husband,” she replied.

Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. 18 The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.”

19 “Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet. 20 Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”

21 “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”

25 The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”

26 Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.”

The Disciples Rejoin Jesus
27 Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?”


28 Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, 29 “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?” 30 They came out of the town and made their way toward him.

Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

May 14th  Let your problems humble you

“But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” JAMES 4:6
Why did God leave us with conflicts and struggles? What is His intention? To answer this we need to know that God originally created man to be dependent upon Him. But due to the fall, man became proud and independent of God. Now God is at work to humble us and make us dependent on Him. For this He uses everything, including our problems. When James says that God gives grace to the humble, it means that your conflicts and struggles are intended to humble you in order to receive fresh supplies of grace.
We can position ourselves for grace, even though there is a nature within us that is at enmity with God. James is speaking to believers who have wars and fights among them due to the warring pleasures in their members — all this conflict (4:1-5). Then he tells them that God is going to give more grace. How does God give more grace? It happens by our drawing near to Him and dealing with our sinful doings, dealing with our divided heart. When we admit we are wretched, when we admit there is nothing good in us — that is the best place to start. James 4:9 says, “Lament and mourn and weep!” The Greek word for lament is the same word Paul uses in Romans 7:24 to describe his inward condition of wretchedness: “O wretched man that I am!” So James is saying, “Be wretched!” Simply admit that in yourself dwells no good thing.
In James 4:6 we read that God gives more grace. Then in verses 7-8weseehowthiscanhappen:7 “ThereforesubmittoGod.Resist the devil and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.” This is James’ way of saying “The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death” (Rom. 8:2). Paul uses the word “law” in Romans. This means that if you touch the Spirit, if you go to the Spirit, you are going to a higher law in you. The Lord lives in you 24 hours a day. He is in your spirit — deeper than your mind, your emotions, and your will. You have a spirit and I have a spirit. We are joined to the Lord. Our mind may be going one way, and our emotions another way. But that is okay. Simply stay in your spirit. Call “Jesus.” Pray. Sing to the Lord. Open yourself to the Word. Share the gospel with others. Fellowship with believers. By activating your spirit, you get into another law that frees you from the law of sin and death every time. This is Paul’s way of describing the divine solution to our problems.

Pray Until Something Happens (PUSH)

Ariana,Ariel, Rene, and Willie.

Health and Healing

Vonetta's mom and Willie

Support and Comfort

Praise Alert
Anna is out of the hospital.

National
Conflict between citizens and  police officer. 

International

Israel and Palestine
Iraq

Syrians

Ukraine

Missing plane and passengers.
Missing Nigerian Christian girls.
Families of slain Kenyans.
Families of all the recent plane crashes.

Song(s) of the Day.
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