Today’s New Covenant nugget is from John 4:10-15 (TPT)
“If you only knew Who I am and the gift that God wants to give you—you’d ask Me for a drink, and I would give to you living water.”
The woman replied, “But sir, You don’t even have a bucket and this well is very deep. So where do you find this ‘living water’? Do You really think that you are greater than our ancestor Jacob who dug this well and drank from it himself, along with his children and livestock?”
Jesus answered, “If you drink from Jacob’s well you’ll be thirsty again and again, but if anyone drinks the living water I give them, they will never thirst again and will be forever satisfied! For when you drink the water I give you it becomes a gushing fountain of the Holy Spirit, springing up and flooding you with endless life!”
The woman replied, “Let me drink that water so I’ll never be thirsty again and won’t have to come back here to draw water.”
His Super in our natural everyday world…
We are living in a time when we need the hand of God, the power of God and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on our lives more than ever before… we need His super on our natural every day existence.
Earlier in this passage in the book of John, we see Jesus sitting on the wall by Jacob’s well. When a Samaritan woman arrived at the well, Jesus asked her for a drink of water. Her first response to Jesus, was asking Him why as a Jew, He would ask her for anything. In the natural, Jews had no dealings with Samaritans. To Jesus, He was not limited or held back by things in the natural, because He saw things above and beyond the natural realm.
This reminds me of the verse in Isaiah 55:8-9 that says His ways are not our ways and His thoughts are not our thoughts, as the heavens are higher, so are His thoughts higher than our thoughts and His ways higher than our ways. When Jesus asked this lady for water, He already knew what her response was going to be, He already knew the conversation He would have with her and He knew how He would minister His life-giving Spirit into her life that day.
Jesus goes on to tell the lady “If you only knew who I am and the gift that God wants to give you—you’d ask Me for a drink, and I would give to you living water.” Again, we see her second response to Jesus was to ask Him how He would draw water from the well without a bucket. Isn’t’ that often how we are and how we operate? It’s so easy to look to the natural and try to figure things out. Jesus was not looking at drawing water out of the well in the natural, He was talking about His super on her natural. He was talking about His living water, His supernatural gift of life, that would forever change her life.
Today, don’t look at your life and your circumstances through your natural eyes, but look to Jesus and thank Him today for pouring His supernatural life, His outpouring of the Holy Spirit on you today. His anointing, His voice, His guidance, His peace, His life will pour through you and live through you, bring you refreshing today no matter what circumstance comes your way – Selah.
Blessings on you, Esther
