The Samaritan Woman

Hello Beautiful!

I often hear people give so many excuses when it comes to evangelism: “I don’t know the bible enough to share the gospel or my testimony.” “I haven’t been Christian long enough.” Those close to me wouldn’t receive because they have witnessed me living in sin too just recently.” 

Before we counter these excuses, let’s pray. Father, I pray that each word written in this blog post will encourage and motivate this beautiful soul of yours to move. I come against all blockage sent by the enemy to stop them from receiving your word. I declare and decree that they will feel the power, anointing, and love of God through this post today in the might name of Jesus Christ!

John 4 introduces us to a woman who embodied all of the above, yet she was eager to share her testimony with a whole town. She was a nameless Samaritan woman who was bound by sin and rejection. She wasn’t only rejected by the Jews who felt that Samaritans couldn’t possibly have any connection to Yahweh, but she was an outcast and looked down upon by her own people. 

“(7) A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, ‘Give Me a drink.’ (8) For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

(9) Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, ‘How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?’ For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.'” (John 4:7-9) 

She was fully aware of her status through the lens of others. During biblical times, a well was the social highpoint for women to chat while drawing water, but she came alone. She was ostracized and marked as immoral, an unmarried woman living openly with multiple men.

When we read verses 13-19, we notice before Jesus responded to her request, he needed to expose her sin first. Unlike the other Jews, Jesus knew her history, but he was willing to offer her the living water. Our testimonies are even more effective when the people around us are eyewitnesses to how we were before we encountered Jesus. In verse 23, Jesus tells the woman, “But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him.” Truth is our testimony; what has God taken us from? We shouldn’t go before God with hidden secrets. Again, before this verse, Jesus exposed the hard truth about this woman, and she began to define worship as a location, the mountain in Jerusalem. Still, Jesus showed her that worship is about heart posture, not a location. God still requires us to come before him emotionally naked like King David, no matter where we are. The Spirit bared witness in this woman that Jesus was indeed a prophet. She could have said, “okay, everyone knows that I have multiple men.” And she would be correct, but she knew something about this man was different. When we share our testimony, people are not concerned with how much bible we know or how long we have been saved. In Romans 8:16, Paul lets us know that “The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.” 

“(28) The woman then left her waterpot, went her way into the city, and said to the men, (29) ‘Come, see a Man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?’ (30) Then they went out of the city and came to Him.” (John 4:28-30) 

No one stopped to question; they all knew the same lady was just living in sin. She didn’t even bother making a pit stop to her home to break off her relationship with the current man. She went straight to the town and testified, and whether they believed her or not, they left whatever they were doing and came to Jesus. Our Only Job is to share what God has done and give room to Holy Spirit to bear witness in them of who Jesus is. 

Revelation 12:11 says, “and they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.” 

Key Takeaways From This Story: 

• The life-changing presence of Jesus is able to cover a multitude of sins. 
•  We should never be ashamed to share what Jesus took us from, no matter how long we’ve been Christian. 
• It is not our job to convince people that we have changed. Holy Spirit will bear witness in them.