{"id":357,"date":"2019-05-01T23:38:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T05:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glorycbcdevotion.home.blog\/?p=357"},"modified":"2024-10-14T22:06:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T22:06:39","slug":"2019-5-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glorycbc.org\/en\/devotion-2019_2021\/2019-5-2\/","title":{"rendered":"2019-5-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John 4:1-54<\/p>\n<p>Jesus was different from the other Jews who would avoid Samaritans as much as possible.<br \/>\nIn order to reach Galilee, Jesus chose to travel through Samaria.\u00a0 Jesus, as God, knew the Samaritans needed to know the living Savior- to know Him.\u00a0 And as a man, He set by the well of Jacob to rest, tired from a long journey.\u00a0 He chose to show Himself to them as fully God and fully man.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus talked to the Samaritan woman who came to the well, revealing Himself to her in stages.\u00a0 He won her confidence with a question.\u00a0 Next He offered her living water and explained its meaning.\u00a0 The woman asked for the living water.\u00a0 He led her to conviction and confession of sin and instructed her concerning worship.\u00a0 Then He revealed Himself as Messiah.<br \/>\nWe learn that conviction and confession of sin are necessary for cleansing.<br \/>\nThese words remind me to look closely at my sin so I can confess and receive His cleansing.<br \/>\nIs the Holy Spirit calling you to look at yourself as well?<\/p>\n<p>Jesus&#8217; thirst-quenching living water filled the woman with the desire to share Christ with those in her town.<br \/>\nJesus&#8217; words had changed her!\u00a0 His words have the power to change us all!<br \/>\nThe eternal life Jesus gives is fully satisfying.\u00a0 Jesus loves and accepts each of us and give us purpose to our lives.<br \/>\nHe is the true satisfier of all our deepest longings.\u00a0 Whom will we tell of what Jesus has done?\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&#8212;- Mary Mauderer<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John 4:1-54 Jesus was different from the other Jews who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion-2019_2021"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glorycbc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glorycbc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glorycbc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glorycbc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glorycbc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glorycbc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4728,"href":"https:\/\/glorycbc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/4728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glorycbc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glorycbc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glorycbc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}