WAITING!

“Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”—John 4: 13-14

Jesus sat by the well, the eastern sun burning against his skin. He could feel a soft wind brush his furrowed brow. His disciples had gone to a neighboring village to get more supplies for their journey. He sat quietly, observing the goings on around him. One or two people interrupted His thoughts with polite greetings of “Shalom”. A few others called him Rabbi. He did not seem to be in haste.

Soon, a woman sashayed to the well, her empty water pot balanced on her head, humming a tune to herself. He noticed how the other women looked at her with disdain. He noticed how the men frowned at her, but their eyes held that needy glint. He did not utter a word. She approached the well and dropped the fetcher in.

Just then the Lord spoke up: “Woman, give me to drink.”

You just have to pay attention to the narrative. Jesus was a Jew; a highly esteemed Jew at that. The person He spoke with was a Samaritan. As if that was not bad enough, she was a woman! You have to understand the culture at that time. Jews had no dealings with the Samaritans. They neither did business nor talked with them. But, here was Jesus sitting at a well, talking with a Samaritan woman. You see, his actions were so counter culture that the woman had to express her shock! He pushed past the age long divide to do something extraordinary.

We must be grateful that we have a God who will break barriers to reach us. We must be glad that our king is not too high up there to relate with us. We should be grateful that our God is not impatient and erratic. We should be glad that we serve a God who can wait for us; a God who will not lower His standards but will lower Himself to reach out to us.

Jesus responds was mind boggling; “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”

It is possible that in our haste we have walked past our miracle? Has God sent you a miracle at your place of work, your home or even church and you did not recognize it? What Jesus told her in essence was, “Everything you have ever longed for is right here in front of you. Everything you have hoped for has been waiting for you right here.”

When the Lord told us miracles await us this month and always, did you take it literally? Did you look out for the miracles? Are you expectant? Don’t be like Jacob who slept in the very presence of the Lord and did not even know it. Is it possible that what you are waiting for is actually waiting for you?

While Isaac pondered about the lamb for the sacrifice, God had a ram entangled in the thickest, held fast by the horns until Abraham and Isaac arrived.

“The Abraham lifted his eyes and looked, and there behind him was a ram caught in a thickest by it’s horns. So Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son”—Genesis 22: 13

Don’t kill the gift God gave in place of the miracle He has provided!

You will experience more miracles if you keep your eyes on the Lord. If you are expectant of the supernatural, you will enjoy the supernatural.

Adam woke up into provision. He did not have to toil to feed and be productive. The miracle of paradise was waiting for him. The Israelite woke up one morning to find manna waiting for them. Miracles await you!

Jesus identified a need in the woman’s life and made her see that He was there with the answers she sought. He was the miracle she so desperately needed. He was the one she sought when she questioned whether it was better to worship on hills or in temples. She had a vacuum nothing else could fill. Not the five husband, or the man she was living with who wasn’t really her husband.

Jesus told her that if she drank the water He provided, she would never thirst again.

You have to realize that every time you awake in the morning, there is a miracle waiting for you. Jesus is right there! He is right there with more than you could ever request for. He is right there with everything provided for you in the Covenant of Abraham ratified by the blood of Jesus. He is right there when things seem to go wrong. He is waiting with answers to the questions of life. He is waiting for you to let go of the temporary things you have held on to for so long. He is waiting with lasting solutions.

There are more miracles around you than you can exhaust. The Lord Himself is waiting: waiting for you to see you reach for Him.

Did you notice that the woman dropped her water pot after she met with Jesus? She did not leave with the agenda she came to the well with. She left her former support system to embrace the miracle of Jesus! When you begin to enjoy the supernatural, you will lose taste for the mundane. You will see that what God ahs in store for you is way beyond what you may have planned for yourself.

Miracles await you!

Blessings!

Author:

Rev. Biodun Fatoyinbo

General Overseer of: Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA)