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DAY FIVE

Conversations

Scripture:

John 4:7-15
When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)

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 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”

13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”

Observation:

• Where do you encounter people who don't know Jesus?

• Who in your life Needs living water?

• How can you move towards them this week?

Apply:

How can you apply this to your life today?

Prayer:

Father God,
Thank you for Jesus' example of loving and investing in people. Thank you for not avoiding the awkward, hard conversations. Give me the courage to start the conversation, ask the next question and share the good news of living water with those along my journey.

Pray for REFUEL and the students that will attend the retreat. Pray that invites will be accepted to attend.

Anna Rains