Luck!!! There is no such thing for a believer in Christ. As children of God we know that He holds all things in His hand. There are no chance encounters or meetings. To have something "good" happen to us and say that we must have been in the right place at the right time, takes the glorification away from the source and places it on ourselves. To say someone is lucky or to say we have luck is to once again negate the source of the blessing or movement. God allows divine appointments to take place in our lives each day. We can see these appointments when we allow Him to open our eyes, ears, and hearts to see Him move. When we take a look at the passage below we see a woman who was living her life doing a simple ordinary task of drawing water from a well. There see meets God walking in the flesh. This occurrence was not just for happenstance, we draw understanding that the Lord sees all and knows all about us. We also see that drawing from the well of Christ will never leave us thirsty. God cares about people first and foremost, He sends His vessels to intersect with us at specific points in our lives to draw us unto Him. Just like that woman went to draw water, God draws mankind through divine appointments and allows us to consume the fulfilling water of Christ Jesus. Today, remember and meditate on all the God ordained divine appointments, were people spoke encouraging words, or comforted you in times of pain and suffering, you will see that God has been in your life longer than you thought, GIVE HIM GLORY!!!! Be Encouraged!!! Have a wonderful life of experiencing divine appointments on purpose!!!!!
John 4
Jesus Talks With a Samaritan Woman 1 Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John— 2 although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. 3 So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.
4 Now he had to go through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.
7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” 8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
9 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.”
16 He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”
17 “I have no husband,” she replied.
Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. 18 The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.”
19 “Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet. 20 Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”
21 “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”
25 The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”
26 Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.”
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