God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth. Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am He.”  John 4:24, 26 (NAS) Jesus comes to the heart of His encounter with the Samaritan woman with this statement and by straightforwardly revealing Himself as the Christ – the long-awaited Messiah. Read more

The woman said to Him, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you people say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.” John 4:19-20 (NAS) The Samaritan woman questions Jesus about a main religious issue dividing Samaritans and Jews – the location of the Read more

The Samaritan woman therefore said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask me for a drink since I am a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)    John 4:9 (NAS) In the familiar story, Jesus requests a drink of water from a Samaritan woman, taking her completely by surprise. Most Read more

“I am the bread of life,” Jesus told them. “No one who comes to me will ever be hungry, and no one who believes in me will ever be thirsty again.  John 6:35 CSB As Jesus fed the 5,000, He satisfied the physical hunger of the people, but their hunger returned the next day.  Jesus then pointed them to a deeper, spiritual longing.  He claimed Read more

Now I know that the Lord gives victory to his anointed; he will answer him from his holy heaven with mighty victories from his right hand.  Psalm 20:6 (CSB) God holds everything in his wise and powerful hands and will do all that he has planned to do. Do you sometimes find yourself just wishing things Read more

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go; I will counsel you with My eye upon you.   Psalm 32:8 (NAS) Most of us would say that we want to follow where God leads, but the truth is that we have a will of our own that we don’t readily relinquish. Read more

How blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in His commandments. Psalm 112:1b (NAS) Throughout Scripture, the fear of the Lord is presented as an important mindset for God’s people. In fact, it is a blessing! Yet we often hear it diminished to great respect and esteem for God’s character, the argument Read more

Shout joyfully to God all the earth; Sing the glory of His name. Make His praise glorious.       Psalm 66:1-2 (NAS) From the end of the earth I call to Thee, when my heart is faint; Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.   Psalm 61:2 (NAS) True worship can be found throughout the Psalms, poems Read more

He who did not spare his own son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Romans 8:32 ESV  As God’s children, we have received the greatest gift imaginable.  In our underserving state, He took the penalty for our sin and gave us eternal life Read more

And he said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” And I answered, “O Lord God, you know.” Ezekiel 37:3 ESV The prophet Ezekiel was led by God’s spirit into a valley of dry, dead bones.  He was told to prophecy to the bones and God would bring them back to life.  We know the Read more