Peace For Your Pain

He is not trying to solve your day to day, he is trying to solve your every day along with your eternity.

John 4:4-8 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.)

• God’s Question Is Always An Opportunity
  • He Is Not Asking Because He Needs Something, He Is Asking Because We Need Something
  • The Missing Piece Is The Missing Peace

John 4:9-15 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.) 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.”

• Don’t Exit The Exchange Without Understanding The Offer
  • Get On My Level
• If You Only Knew

John 4:16-18 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.”

• Pain Will Either Prevent You Or Propel You
  • Have You Ever Reached A Point Where It Was So Bad, You Couldn’t Believe It Was Going To Get Better?
• Pain Will Push You Towards a Destination
  • You Can Turn Inward
  • You Can Turn Outward
  • You Can Turn Upward

John 4:28-30 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.

• The Exchange Occurs When You Lay It Down