Introduction
Pastor Lisa introduces her sermon, connecting it to previous church messages on hunger and thirst for God.
Emphasizes that the Word of God is inexhaustible and always brings new revelation.
A story and a video illustrate the experience of feeling spiritually thirsty and encountering grace.
Compares physical thirst (travel experiences, water) to spiritual thirst that only God’s living water can satisfy.
Central passage: John 4, Jesus’ meeting with the Samaritan woman at the well.
The well represents a place for divine encounter, restoration, and change.
The importance of spiritual thirst and the role of the well as a place to meet God.
Jesus intentionally goes out of His way to meet the woman, underscoring divine appointments regardless of one’s past.
Details the Samaritan woman’s background: ostracized, broken, carrying shame, seeking fulfillment through relationships.
Jesus knows her past and future, cares for her, and shows there are no barriers to God’s love.
Every believer is “the one” sought by the shepherd (reference to the parable of the lost sheep).
Jesus offers “living water,” which meets deeper needs and provides ongoing spiritual satisfaction.
Drawing from scientific facts about water in the human body to illustrate our need for living water spiritually.
The living water symbolizes healing, restoration, and renewal.
Everyone has unique brokenness, pain, and spiritual crutches, but personal encounters with Jesus facilitate healing and transformation.
Testimony: Pastor Lisa’s story of adoption, rejection, and eventual healing through Christ’s living water.
Warns against settling for a religious routine and urges true relationship with Christ.
God wants believers to go deeper and develop authentic faith that brings freedom and peace.
Honest confrontation of sin and broken relationships as barriers to spiritual progress.
Emphasizes God’s ability and willingness to heal, restore, and provide grace, no matter one’s history.
True satisfaction and identity are found in Jesus alone, not in possessions or achievements.
A call to come to the altar, symbolically “the well,” for prayer, healing, and receiving living water.
Believers invited to confront their pain and desperation by seeking Christ for breakthrough and transformation.
Concludes with a prayer for God’s living water to fill and renew all present, reminding that the altar is a place for such encounters.
