Every Tuesday night my husband, our pastor, and two other men go out to pray for people. They have amazing testimonies of salvations, healings, and encouraging stories of the redemptive power of God. These times are life transforming for the people they encounter. It is not just the people who God touches who are changed, these men experience God’s transforming power as well. God uses their obedience to go out into the fields of the world to sow seeds of life, seeds of Jesus, and in the process they get to experience the joy of the harvest.
When Jesus met the Samaritan woman at the well, He made a simple request. John 4:7 says, “A woman came to draw water. Give me a drink, Jesus said to her, because His disciples had gone into town to buy food”.
When I read of the encounter Jesus had with this woman at the well, I am impacted that with one request many were saved. Just as the men that I mentioned above go out and ask if they can pray for the people they meet, Jesus made Himself available to this solitary women who came to draw water.
Taking time to talk about Jesus to the people that we meet cannot be trivialized. It gives these individuals the opportunity to either experience the saving grace of God, or to talk about their faith with another believer. Either way, it is simply bringing Jesus out into the open where people can hear the good news of the gospel, and have the opportunity to make a decision.
The people in the town of Samaria, called Sychar, had a choice to make. They chose to believe that Jesus was the Savior of the world.
The Samaritan woman was forever changed by her encounter with Jesus, and I have heard it taught that she became a powerful evangelist in her day. Shortly after meeting Jesus, she was quick to run to get others so that they too could meet the One who told her everything she ever did.
A woman who responded immediately, and was at once used by God to harvest souls for the kingdom of God, was a woman to be remembered.
John 4:19 CSB Now many Samaritans from that town believed in Him because of what the woman said when she testified, “He told me everything I ever did.”