In my life I have heard many teachings about the Samaritan woman at the well in John 4:1-25. Every time I hear or read this story, I always seem to learn the same thing. God is love, the woman lived in sin, she was shamed, and Jesus brought her truth. But about a month ago I heard a man talking about it and it struck me in a different way. This story is about a woman who had had five husbands, and when she met Jesus she was currently living with another man that was not her husband. She had so much pain in her heart and so much desperation in her spirit that even if she didn’t want another man, she couldn’t have stopped herself from looking for one. She was obsessed, which lead towards rituals, or actions, which then lead her to fall into sin. After each time she fell, she would feel guilt, or shame, and then she would start the whole process over again, leading to a life of sin. The cycle would end with a big void in her heart, and when she met Jesus, that void was filled with a love bigger than she could imagine.
I used to be like this woman. As many of you know, my life went from bad to worse when I got was in a terrible relationship and then wound up pregnant at 17, even though, at the end of it all, a huge blessing came out of it. I was putting everything I had into guys and how they made me feel. I would start with one relationship, enjoy it while it lasted, break up, and then search for a new man, and another, and another. I was hurt and I didn’t have any room for Jesus in the life I was living.
The sad part of my story is that I didn’t realize what a horrifying cycle I was in until I screwed up. It wasn’t because God had convicted me or because I wasn’t in love. I knew in my heart that what I was doing was wrong, I knew God wanted better for me, I knew I needed to change, but I didn’t want to listen and leave the life I was used to. Life is so easy when we are comfortable. It’s so nice to be able to do things the way that we think is best, but in the end, it kicks you in the butt.
When I was in the States in 2009, I gave birth to a beautiful little blessing, who was then adopted within my family, and I got involved in a church and began to really seek what it was that God wanted for my life. I met new friends that prayed with me, my family was a huge help to me, and my church allowed me to grow and learn things I never totally understood before. I was called to do my DTS (Discipleship Training School) with Youth With A Mission in July, 2009. While I was there, God worked in my heart big time. I started surrendering myself to Him, and He began blessing me. I love to sing and I play some guitar, and while I was there I realized that I have a passion for worship. I was given the chance to do my School of Worship last January, 2010, but it ended up being postponed until this January, 2011. I have decided to take a step forward in faith and I believe God has much planned for me as I do my School of Worship in San Jose, Costa Rica (where I also did my DTS). During this time I will learn what true worship is, in spirit and in truth. I will learn to write my own songs to the Lord and improve my singing/guitar skills. But more than anything I will seek a deeper relationship with my Lord, Jesus Christ. I will be sharing my faith with many people with Costa Rica during ministry times and throughout my stay there was well.
Our deepest desire is to know God and to have a love greater than all the love on this earth, or at least it should be. And our response to the relationship we have with our Father is worship.
Please pray for me – that is what I need the most.
Financial support is also needed, the school cost is around $2,000.
Do as God leads you to do.
I would like to thank all of those who have helped me grow and learn in the past. God bless you for what you have done for me and for God’s kingdom, because He used your prayers and money through me in Costa Rica.
“Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.” – John 4:23-24
Jesus Talks With A Samaritan Woman
When Jesus left Judea and went back into Galilee, he had to pass through Samaria; and he came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the piece of ground that Jacob gave his son Joseph. Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus, therefore, being wearied by the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon and a woman of 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 a drink of me who am a Samaritan?" for the Jews have nothing to do with Samaritans.
Jesus answered 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 with which to draw 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 himself drank from it, together with his children and his cattle?"
Jesus answered her, "Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again; but whoever drinks of the water that I will give shall never thirst. The water that I give him will become in him a well of water springing up into eternal life."
The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst again nor have to come here to draw."
Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, then come back here."
The woman answered, "I have no husband."
Jesus said to her, "You are right in saying, 'I have no husband,' for you have had five husbands, and he whom you now have is not your husband; in saying that, you spoke the truth."
The woman said to him, "Sir, I see that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and you Jews say that Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship."
Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the time will come when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor at Jerusalem. The time is coming, yes, has already come, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth; for such worshipers the Father seeks. God is a spirit, and they who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."
The woman said to him, "I know that the Messiah (which means Christ) is coming. When he comes he will explain all things to us."
Jesus said to her, "I who am talking to you am he."
