I love the story of the Samaritan woman in her encounter with Jesus at the well in Sychar (John 4:1-42). Jesus cut across social barriers (V 9), in love, to reach this woman. The Holy Spirit in Jesus revealed details of the woman’s background to him and so that he was able to get her attention (V17-18). This allowed him to show her the route to salvation (V26; Rom 10:9).

There is also a great contrast in these verses as well. The contrast of the natural mind of the non-Christian (the Samaritan woman) versus Jesus and the born-again Christian (v10-18). The woman only saw natural water but Jesus spoke of living water (v10 and 13-14) or the spiritual power of the word of God (Heb 4:12) to satisfy our spiritual thirst and transform us as children of God (v10 and 13-14).

“But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned” (1Cor 2:14; KJV). The bible tells us we are “spirit, soul and body” (1Thess 5:23). It is our spirit that is born again or saved when we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior ().  The Holy Spirit reveals God’s word to us, to our born-again spirit (our spiritual heart or conscience; John 14:25-26; 16:13). We call this revelation; its not just head knowledge but the word comes alive to us; it jumps off the page at us, we see its spiritual meaning.

We are told that God’s word: “is truth” and that: “the truth shall make you free” (John 17:17; 8:32). Free from what? Well, anything that holds you back from walking in the abundant life God has for you (John 10:10).

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When you ever get to feel down and discouraged remember some of the things God says to you and about you in his word:

As a Christian, if you have asked Christ in to your life as Lord and Savior, God says he has forgiven you (Col 1:14). He has given you a new spiritual heart in fellowship with him (John 3:3, 5-6; Ezek 36:26). You are a new creation in Christ Jesus, a species of being that never existed before (2 Cor 5:17). You are a child of God (John 1:12-13), seated in heavenly places with Christ (Eph 2:6); a joint heir with Jesus (Rom 8:17).

This all means you are in Christ and all he is and has is yours, now and forever. Jesus dwells in you as the Holy Spirit (John 14:16-18) and God’s word says that no evil force in this world is greater than the Holy Spirit that dwells in you (1 John 4:4). Jesus defeated satan and took all power and authority back from him (Col 2:15); you are victorious in Christ (1 Cor 15:57).

God loves you with a never-failing love, no matter what you have done or who you are (Rom 8:38-39); He will never leave you or forsake you (Heb 13:5). God says you are his workmanship, his work of art (Eph 2:10), designed for good works that he has for you (Eph 2:10).

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"According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust." (2 Peter 1:3,4 KJV).

Two amazing verses of scripture. When we were born again and became Christians our spirit was made new but not our soul (mind, will and emotions) or body (John 3:3,5-6). We need to work to sanctify our body and soul (Rom 12:2; 1 Cor 9:27) or bring them under the control and dominance of our spirit, influenced by the Holy Spirit.

Our passage from second Peter above shows us how God provides for us to sanctify and change our body and soul; to put off the old man and put on the new life in Christ (Eph 4:22-24). We are told we can have God's divine nature and put off the ways of the world (v4). We can live the kind of life God lives and walk in godliness (v3). We can discover his new life in Christ, all God's promises to us, as we grow in the knowledge of our Father God and our Savior, Jesus.

How do we do this? We do it by spending time in the Bible. As we prayerfully ask the Holy Spirit to reveal God's word to us (John 14:26), the revelation releases the power of the Holy Spirit to bring change in our lives and enables us to walk in all God has for us. Wow. What a deal, what a loving God! He gives us salvation freely by his grace; gives us our operators manual, the Bible and also the power of the Holy Spirit to change. All we have to do is cooperate.

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