Refreshing Our Spirits With Scripture

John 4. As you look around right now, wouldn’t you say that in about four months it will be time to harvest? Well, I’m telling you to open your eyes and take a good look at what’s right in front of you. These Samaritan fields are ripe. It’s harvest time!

John 4. 28-30  The woman took the hint and left. In her confusion she left her water pot. Back in the village she told the people, “Come see a man who knew all about the things I did, who knows me inside and out. Do you think this could be the Messiah?” And they went out to see for themselves.

John 4. 31  In the meantime, the disciples pressed him, “Rabbi, eat. Aren’t you going to eat?” 32  He told them, “I have food to eat you know nothing about.” 33  The disciples were puzzled. “Who could have brought him food?” 34-35  Jesus said, “The food that keeps me going is that I do the will of the One who sent me, finishing the work he started.

John 4. 27  Just then his disciples came back. They were shocked. They couldn’t believe he was talking with that kind of a woman. No one said what they were all thinking, but their faces showed it.

John 4. 23-24  “It’s who you are and the way you live that count before God. Your worship must engage your spirit in the pursuit of truth. That’s the kind of people the Father is out looking for: those who are simply and honestly themselves before him in their worship. God is sheer being itself—Spirit. Those who worship him must do it out of their very being, their spirits, their true selves, in adoration.” 25  The woman said, “I don’t know about that. I do know that the Messiah is coming. When he arrives, we’ll get the whole story.” 26  “I am he,” said Jesus. “You don’t have to wait any longer or look any further.”

John 4. 16  He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.” 17  “I have no husband,” she replied. Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. 18  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. 20  Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.” 21  “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, 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 the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24  God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”

John 4. 4  Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John— 2  although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. 3  So 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 noon. 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. [ a ] ) 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  “