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The Ministry of Healing
Personal Ministry
Christ neglected no opportunity of proclaiming the gospel of
salvation. Listen to His wonderful words to that one woman of
Samaria. He was sitting by Jacob’s well, as the woman came to
draw water. To her surprise He asked a favor of her. “Give Me to
drink,” He said. He wanted a cool draft, and He wished also to open
the way whereby He might give to her the water of life. “How is
it,” said the woman, “that Thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me,
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which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with
the Samaritans.” Jesus answered, “If thou knewest the gift of God,
and who it is that saith to thee, Give Me to drink; thou wouldest
have asked of Him, and He would have given thee living water....
Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: but whosoever
drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the
water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing
up into everlasting life.”
John 4:7-14
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How much interest Christ manifested in this one woman! How
earnest and eloquent were His words! When the woman heard them,
she left her waterpot, and went into the city, saying to her friends,
“Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not
this the Christ?” We read that “many of the Samaritans of that city
believed on Him.”
Verses 29, 39
. And who can estimate the influence
which these words have exerted for the saving of souls in the years
that have passed since then?
Wherever hearts are open to receive the truth, Christ is ready
to instruct them. He reveals to them the Father, and the service
acceptable to Him who reads the heart. For such He uses no parables.
To them, as to the woman at the well, He says, “I that speak unto
thee am He.”
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