Jesus turned water into wine. (John 2:4-11) It was His first public miracle. He calmed the storms of water with one word. (Matt 8:26) When He went through Samaria and began to get thirsty we discovered something new. As he asked for a drink, he got in a discussion with the person known only as "the woman". It's in this discussion we discover this wonderful and interesting phrase.
John 4:10 Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God, and who is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would ask him, and he would give you living water.” John 4:11 “Sir,” said the woman, “you don’t even have a bucket, and the well is deep. So where do you get this ‘living water’? 12 You aren’t greater than our father Jacob, are you? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and livestock.” Following that discussion with Jesus, "the woman" became an evangelist. It changed her life: John 4:28 Then the woman left her water jar, went into town, and told the people, 29 “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?” Later, while in the temple, He made this grand declaration about the Holy Spirit! John 7:37 On the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. 38 The one who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, will have streams of living water flow from deep within him.” 39 He said this about the Spirit. Those who believed in Jesus were going to receive the Spirit, for the Spirit had not yet been given because Jesus had not yet been glorified. An encounter with the Living Water is a life changing moment of deliverance and a perpetual joy in the Holy Spirit! Praise God! var refTagger = { settings: { bibleVersion: "ESV" } }; (function(d, t) { var g = d.createElement(t), s = d.getElementsByTagName(t)[0]; g.src = '//api.reftagger.com/v2/RefTagger.js'; s.parentNode.insertBefore(g, s); }(document, 'script'));
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