Friday October 04th, 2024
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6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired out by the trip, sat down by the well. It was about noon.
7 A Samaritan woman came to draw some water, and Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink of water.”
(8 His disciples had gone into town to buy food.)
9 The woman answered, “You are a Jew, and I am a Samaritan—so how can you ask me for a drink?” (Jews will not use the same cups and bowls that Samaritans use.)
10 Jesus answered, “If you only knew what God gives and Who it is that is asking you for a drink, you would ask Him, and He would give you life-giving water.”
11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you don’t have a bucket, and the well is deep. Where would you get that life-giving water?
12 It was our ancestor Jacob who gave us this well; he and his children and his flocks all drank from it. You don’t claim to be greater than Jacob, do you?”
13 Jesus answered, “Those who drink this water will get thirsty again,
14 but those who drink the water that I will give them will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give them will become in them a spring which will provide them with life-giving water and give them eternal life.”
15 “Sir,” the woman said, “give me that water! Then I will never be thirsty again, nor will I have to come here to draw water.”
16 “Go and call your husband,” Jesus told her, “and come back.”
17 “I don’t have a husband,” she answered. Jesus replied, “You are right when you say you don’t have a husband.
18 You have been married to five men, and the man you live with now is not really your husband. You have told me the truth.”
19 “I see you are a prophet, sir,” the woman said.
20 “My Samaritan ancestors worshiped God on this mountain, but you Jews say that Jerusalem is the place where we should worship God.”
21 Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman, the time will come when people will not worship the Father either on this mountain or in Jerusalem.
22 You Samaritans do not really know whom you worship; but we Jews know whom we worship, because it is from the Jews that salvation comes.
23 But the time is coming and is already here, when by the power of God’s Spirit people will worship the Father as He really is, offering him the true worship that He wants.
24 God is Spirit, and only by the power of his Spirit can people worship Him as He really is.”
25 The woman said to Him, “I know that the Messiah will come, and when He comes, He will tell us everything.”
26 Jesus answered, “I am He, I who am talking with you.”
27 At that moment Jesus’ disciples returned, and they were greatly surprised to find him talking with a woman. But none of them said to her, “What do you want?” or asked him, “Why are you talking with her?”
28 Then the woman left her water jar, went back to the town, and said to the people there,
29 “Come and see the man who told me everything I have ever done. Could He be the Messiah?”
30 So they left the town and went to Jesus.
The Almighty God sent His disciples out in Luke 10:1-6 to preach in households.
He gave them so much power just to preach to families – not to organize crusades.
He gave them power to preach to households because no platform where you can preach to people is small at all.
As long as there is one person to listen to the gospel of the Lord, that platform is big.
In John 4:6-30, Jesus preached to only one woman.
It was in the course of that conversation that He gave the powerful revelation that, God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth” (John 4:24).
While many may have regarded preaching to just one person as a small platform, Jesus Christ said preaching to her was His meat (John 4:32-34).
I went to preach in a small rural Church which had no building. My children snapped the picture of me preaching there and put it on the internet and many people were surprised. I, on the other hand, wondered why people were surprised. It may have been a small Church, it may have been situated in a rural area, but as long as there was someone, just one person there that I could lead to Christ, I gladly went there to preach.
In the Bible reading for today, Jesus concentrated a lot of effort into winning that woman’s soul and she brought the whole city to Him.
That little gathering that seems like a small platform probably has the next Adeboye in it.
I am a village boy from Ifewara, Nigeria. However, from that small village, God won one soul to Himself, and that one soul is now bringing millions of souls to His Kingdom.
- Never underestimate any opportunity to win a soul.
Every platform given to you to preach the word of God is big!
How many people do you have following you on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and so on?
How many email addresses and phone numbers do you have on your contact list?
All these are great platforms through which you can reach people for the Lord.
- The next Billy Graham may be on one of these platforms of yours; God may be counting on you to win that one soul to Him.
Don’t waste that big platform you have: use it.
Application – There is no such thing as a small platform when it comes to preaching the gospel.
Author – Bishop Enoch Adejare Adeboye; General Overseer of the RCCG
Edited by Naomie Joseph
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