“Thy Kingdom Come….”

When Jesus wanted to change a city, He did not even need to travel there.

In a premeditated meeting with a woman at a well, Jesus releases the kingdom on an entire city.

And He calls us to do the same thing.

John 4  1 The Pharisees heard that Jesus was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John, 2 although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. 3 When the Lord learned of this, 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 the sixth hour.

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.)

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 flocks and herds?”

13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him 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.

18 Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. 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. 20Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”

21 Jesus declared, “Believe me, woman, 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 spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in 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 who speak to you am he.” …….

39 Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.”

The King of the world not only talked to the most rejected woman from a city of rejected people, He made sure that He wrote it on His schedule.

You are not so small that Jesus does not see you and know you.

You are not so sinful that He can’t forgive you.

You are not so insignificant that He can’t notice you.

You aren’t so weak that He can’t make you strong.

You are the most important person in His agenda……and John recognized this by calling himself the “disciple who Jesus loved”.  I don’t think that He wrote this out of arrogance. I think that He wrote it because Jesus is in the business of meeting with each of us….one on one….in hopes of changing the entire world.

Don’t be afraid to do one small thing today that can change a city…..put the love of Jesus on the rejected…..and watch Him work miracles.

Thy Kingdom Come

Take a moment to say the Lord’s Prayer….or listen to this song and sing it out in worship.  He will take whatever you’ve got. And remember what you are saying when you say: “Thy Kingdom Come”, because you belong to the King of the Universe, and our God has an incredible plan for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eIVSWdBaTE

In The Name of the Father and the

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

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Coach J