Supernatural Believing Christ Conscious (9 page)

THE SOURCE OF OUR TRUST

DRINK FROM THE LIVING WELL

The following story is a picture of a divine encounter with a Samaritan woman and Jesus. Open your spirits and allow the Holy Spirit to fill you with living water.

Jesus left Judea because the religious leaders wanted to create jealousy among the believers. It is interesting to note that rather than defend Himself Jesus left.

So often people are more interested staying in a religious setting to defend their self-image instead of leaving for the unknown to be formed by the Spirit.

Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John (although Jesus himself didn’t baptize, but his disciples), he left Judea, and departed into Galilee.

John 4:1 WEB

Jesus is physically tired and thirsty and decides to sit by a well in Samaria, and asks a woman of Samaria to give him a drink. However, the Lord was asking for something much more than water.

Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

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 therefore said to him, how is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman? (For Jews have no dealings 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.

John 4:6–10 WEB

Jesus is at your well now to ask you for your resources of strength. Our wells may be popularity, status, money or any other thing we believe to be our security. Jesus wants you to give it to Him. Why? He tells us in verse 10.

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.

You may think, “I know Jesus, He is my savior and Lord.” Is He? What do you believe and why do you believe what you believe? Is what you believe sufficient to supply your every need? Many Christians today are content with their “wells” and do not recognize Jesus. Therefore, He is asking us to give Him our security and strengths, or systems of trust.

Perhaps, this is why so many preach about giving. Money is without a doubt most people’s security.

The woman said to him, Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. From where then have you that living water?

Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, as did his children, and his cattle?

Jesus answered her, Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.

The woman said to him, Sir, give me this water, so that I don’t get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw.

John 4:11–15 AKJV

The woman’s response is similar to those today whose belief is in the reality of this world as their resource rather than Jesus. Many Christians are taught to believe the “wells of Jacob” are sufficient to supply all their needs. After all, Jacob is the grandson of Abraham, one of the wealthiest men in the scriptures.

Some messages on prosperity cite Abraham’s wealth as proof of his faith. The water of this world will never satisfy even, if it appears to provide physical resources. The living water of Christ is the only water capable of satisfying spirit, soul and body. The added feature is physical abundance.

Jesus is offering living water to those who thirst for Him. He is not a philosophy, religion or formula. I was radically changed the first time I tasted the living waters of Christ. I tried to survive on the waters of this world, and the more I drank the more I wanted.
My life was consumed with wanting more of what did not satisfy in the first place.

Finally, in my despair and emptiness, I cried out for water as a thirsty man would in the desert. Then and only then, I encountered the living water in the person of Jesus. One drink is all it took for me to know He was the only one who could fill the desire of my soul.

One day I went for a walk in the desert in California. I was fascinated by the beauty and wandered off the road. Before long, I discovered I was lost.
The thought of not having enough water made me thirsty.
I tried to be calm, but my mind was relentless with images of thirst.

I drank the water from my canteen but the fear of running out dehydrated me. The more I drank, the thirstier I became. Finally, I recognized a landmark and found my way home.

However, the analogy of being lost in this life and drinking from the waters of this world without satisfaction is powerful indeed.

Precious one, maybe you have not had this experience. Take the time now to search your soul for the truth. Have you tasted Jesus? Perhaps, you are trying to fill your emptiness with more of the waters of this world.

Do not let the devil lie to you any longer. The waters of religion or secular knowledge will never satisfy your soul’s yearning for the real thing.

In the name of Jesus, I implore you to cry out to Him from the depths of your soul. Ask Him for a drink of His Water. He alone will satisfy you.

The process Jesus describes below is the sequence we have been illustrating throughout our discussion.

He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, ‘From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.

John 7:38 NAS

DISCOVERING TRUE WORSHIP

The heart of man is designed to form a spring of refreshing revelation and resource for every human being. The more you consume, the larger the well becomes inside you, enabling others to drink. This is the design for real evangelism.

Returning to the woman at the well we discover her response after drinking the “living water.”

Jesus said to her, Go, call your husband, and come here.

The woman answered, I have no husband.

Jesus said to her, you said well, I have no husband, for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly.

The woman said to him, Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.

Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.

Jesus said to her, Woman,
believe me
, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father.

You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.

But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshippers.

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.

The woman said to him, I know that Messiah comes, (he who is called Christ). When he has come, he will declare to us all things. Jesus said to her, I am he, the one who speaks to you.

John 4:16–26 WEB

The woman wants what He is offering, so Jesus tests her. She passes the test and qualifies to taste the living water.

The woman’s truthfulness opens her heart’s door to be touched by the Master.

She considered Jesus a prophet after He revealed her relationships with men. The interesting thing about prophecy is it always works in harmony with worship.

Worship has been the topic of countless sermons, but it is not just singing or playing music.
My definition of worship is the outward expression of the knowledge or consciousness of Christ. Worship is the physical response to a soul set free.

Worship is another word for the sound of love resonating through out our being. The harmony of all our spirit, soul, mind, heart and body vibrating to the awesomeness of God, is the sound of worship in man.

Worship opens the paths of heaven and joins us to the Father and to hear His voice.

Worship and the prophetic are heavenly tools the Holy Ghost uses to install the wells of living water. Worship breaks the rocks around stony hearts in order for surgery to occur.

The heart transplant is necessary for the prophetic to operate in our lives. The heart of flesh, described in Ezekiel 11:19 will produce worship as living water to nourish, refresh and transform our lives.

He said the hour is
now
for the
prophetic and worship
to join with spirit and truth.
God is spirit and Jesus is truth.

The Father is looking for those who think and believe like His Son. They have tasted the water and their souls are converted.

Many Churches today are preoccupied with the things in the future and miss the
now is
of the Spirit. This woman knew about the Messiah even though she was not a Jew. Her preconceived idea of the way a Messiah should look and act prevented her from asking Him for the living water.

We cannot afford to miss now, what we “believe” is coming in the future.

Jesus is saying, “if you have tasted my water you will worship and the Father will visit you.” Have you been visited by the Father? If not perhaps, you have not drunk from Jesus.

Then the woman put down her water-pot and went into the town, and said to the people,

Come and see a man who has been talking to me of everything I ever did! Is it possible that this is the Christ?

So they went out of the town and came to him.

While this was taking place, the disciples were saying to Jesus, Master, take some food.

But he said to them, I have food of which you have no knowledge. So the disciples said one to another, Did anyone give him food?

Jesus said, My food is to do the pleasure of him who sent me and to make his work complete.

John 4:28–34 BBE

After the woman tastes the living water she leaves her natural resources, the water pot and runs to tell her neighbors. Once she tastes the truth, she is compelled to tell others.

If this has not happened in your life then chances are you have not drunk from Him.

The woman was manifesting the results of the living water in her life. She was worshiping God by talking about something that had touched her deeply. God is looking for those who worship Him in spirit and truth.

The level of our worship expresses our substance, reality and ultimately, our belief.

Meanwhile, Jesus turned His attention to His disciples to explain the supernatural. Remember, Jesus had asked for water initially and the disciples went to get food.

However, Jesus never ate or drank during this encounter and the disciples were shocked.

Jesus manifested a kingdom principle:
“blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be completely satisfied.”

You would say, Four months from now is the time of the graincutting. Take a look, I say to you, at the fields; they are even now white for cutting.

He who does the cutting now has his reward; he is getting together fruit for eternal life, so that he who did the planting and he who gets in the grain may have joy together. In this the saying is a true one, One does the planting, and another gets in the grain.

I sent you to get in grain, which you had no hand in planting: other men did that work, and you take the reward.

John 4:35–38 BBE

Jesus told His disciples what He is saying today.
Time is nonexistent in the spirit realm.

One of the powers of worship is to provide us with the prophetic vision to see the real condition of the physical world. The Spirit and Truth destroy the perceptions of man and create opportunities for the supernatural to be manifested.

Jesus is revealing a mystery to His disciples that we should understand as well.

There is a story Jesus referred to his disciples about a man full of compassion who helped a wounded man in the road. He called him the “good Samaritan” (Luke 10:30–37)

This man captured the Father’s attention in such a way as to send Jesus to Samaria.

Jesus said,
“ I sent you to get in grain, which you had no hand in planting: other men did that work, and you take the reward.”

Chances are the “Good Samaritan” was not even aware that his act of love was a prayer to the Father to send forth laborers. The woman at the well was part of the harvest God counted to the Good Samaritans crown.

Beloved, our seeds of love are eternal, and their role in the destiny of our family and city can be dramatic. If we are obedient to the voice of the Holy Spirit and go when we are sent, the fruit and rewards will be waiting.

Then he said to them, “The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that he may send out laborers into his harvest.”

Luke 10:2 WEB

The woman’s testimony had created such hunger and thirst in this Samaritan city that a revival broke out. Why? Because the woman had tasted the living water of Jesus, and
her worship was calling the Lord of the Harvest to send forth laborers.

Many Samaritans in that city
believed
in Jesus because of the woman who said, He told me everything I’ve ever done.

So when the Samaritans went to Jesus, they asked him to stay with them. He stayed in Samaria for two days.

Many more Samaritans
believed
because of what Jesus said.

And many more
believed,
because of His own word;

And said to the woman, now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.

John 4:39–44 GW

Jesus stayed two additional days to talk to them about the kingdom of God. The “Good Samaritan” left two pennies to pay for the wounded man at the Inn.

Talk about reaping a thousand fold blessing. The Kingdom of God is a good investment. The majesty of our Lord is beyond our traditional understanding. He repaid the goodness of that Samaritan a thousand times more than his money.