Drink from the Source – Part 1

It is a pleasure to be here with you again, and all of this truly was in God’s plans. A few months ago, Roberto and I were talking on the phone about the book he has just published; we were talking about my book, and we were discussing the possibility of coming to this area.

And so, tentatively, we discussed a possible date, to be confirmed later. Shortly afterward, Meche called me and said, “You know what, Awilda? I have it here that Roberto has such-and-such a date pending, to look at and confirm later, as though you’re coming to this area,” and she said, “and I wanted to bring you here on precisely that date, the very same date as the women’s event we’re having today.”

So God is in control of everything; God has everything on His agenda. And among all the things God wants to do, the most important is that God wants us to be able to understand—or refresh our understanding of—the biblical truth, the biblical principles, that we must be aware that we need to drink from the spring constantly, day by day. We must seek to live under God’s favor, because in God’s spring we find His favor and His blessing.

Let us bow our heads right where we are and pray: “Father, we thank You because we have been able to worship You with all our minds, with all our hearts, with our entire being. And at this hour, Lord, we remain before Your blessed presence, oh God, and we tell You, Lord, that we want to remain attentive to You, Lord—attentive to what You have for us today. We have come to drink from the spring; we have come to drink from Your Word. We need You, oh God, and... in Christ Jesus, in such a way that Your Word may accomplish in us that for which You send it, Lord. We thank You at this hour; thank You for what You are doing and for what You will continue to do. Thank You, Lord. Amen, amen.”

I invite you to turn once again to John chapter 4, which is the key text for today’s theme.

John, chapter 4. It was already read at the beginning of the service, but I want us to read verses 13 and 14 again. It reads as follows: “Jesus answered, speaking to the Samaritan woman, and said to her, ‘Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again. But whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst; rather, the water that I shall give him will become a spring of water leaping up into everlasting life.’”

This passage of Scripture is very well known, and especially well known when we speak in an evangelistic sense, isn’t that right? This passage of Scripture tells us about a Samaritan woman and her encounter with Jesus of Nazareth—her encounter with the Master, her encounter with the Messiah. And there were three factors—there could have been many more—but I want to mention three particular factors that this woman had working against her.

The first one I want to mention is that this woman was what? We already mentioned it: a Samaritan. In other words, this woman belonged to a race rejected by the Jews. At a certain point in the history of God’s people, when the Assyrians—the Assyrian people—attacked God’s people and attacked Samaria, what did the Assyrian people do? They deported all the inhabitants of Samaria and brought in people from other places. And what happened? Those Jews who remained in Samaria intermingled with those who arrived from other places, so the Samaritans were no longer... what? Pure Jews; rather, they were of mixed ancestry and were regarded by the Jewish race as... what? As contemptible people. They were no longer considered part of the Jews because they had intermingled with other races.

So, as far as Jewish culture was concerned, this woman was at a disadvantage, and that was the fact that she was... what? A Samaritan. She was not of the race considered superior; she was not of pure ancestry. And in addition to that, we can also mention that this woman—the mere fact that she was a woman—was another factor that was... what? Working against her, or that did not favor her.

In the ancient world, women did not count for anything. That is sometimes still the case in some Hispanic cultures, but thank God that in our time this has changed tremendously, right? Even more so in these areas.

But the reality is that in the ancient world—and even today—women practically did not count for anything. It turns out that being a woman in the ancient world was a very critical matter, and being a woman within Jewish culture was also a very critical matter in the sense in which we understand it today: that a woman is appreciated and esteemed in her different roles. Among the Jewish people, it was a very different matter. So much so that the Jews considered a woman unclean from the cradle—as though she were unclean, as though she were menstruating. And forgive me for using the exact, medical, and correct terms. From the cradle. A woman was considered unclean simply for being a woman, as though she had been menstruating from the cradle.

A Jewish man could pray to God—or was accustomed to pray to God—saying, “Thank You, Lord, that I was born neither a Gentile nor a woman.” So within Jewish culture, women were not held in esteem—although God has always held us in esteem—but within that culture, they were not held in esteem. This woman had many things working against her, or at least I am mentioning three aspects.

And the third is that, according to the biblical account, to top it all off, she was a Samaritan, a woman, and, to top it all off, a sinner—a woman in a condition of sin. But this woman, who had these factors and many more that we could mention working against her, was a woman who found in the person of Jesus an answer for her life, for her needs, and for the thirst she had, which perhaps even she herself did not know how to identify. Jesus supplied her need even in the midst of her sinful condition. Regardless of the factors that might have been working against her, Jesus did not reject her. On the contrary, at the beginning of this account, of this passage, the Scriptures say that Jesus needed to pass through Samaria. And when the Jews had to go to a certain place and the route involved Samaria, what did they do? They went around it and took the long way, but they did not pass through Samaria because it was an unclean people. But Scripture tells us that Jesus needed to pass through Samaria.

Why did He need to pass through Samaria? Because there He had an assignment: to bring living water to a woman who needed it. And at a certain point, when we did not know Him, when we were in our own Samaria, Jesus needed to pass near our lives. Jesus determined to pass by, touch our lives, and enter our hearts, and we said to Him, “Yes, Lord, here we are, and we accept You. I want to drink of that living water.”

But it is interesting and important for us to understand that this beautiful moment of encounter, of our first encounter with the Lord, must be repeated day after day in our lives. Jesus did not reject this woman; Jesus did not reject us either. We too were Samaritan women. We too had our sinful condition, whatever it may have been. This woman had a sinful condition in the sexual area; we had whatever condition we had. Perhaps, as opposed to moral or sexual sin, we had the sin of believing—as happened to me—that we were so very holy because I had been raised at home in such a way and with such moral principles that I lived a very holy life, being a very good person and going to the Episcopal Church every Sunday, every week.

I was accustomed to a very firm moral upbringing at home, but do you know what? I was just like this Samaritan woman because I did not have the Lord. Regardless of the condition we may have had, although for my part I believed I was all right, one day God confronted me in my Samaria and showed me: “Do not think that because you have gone to church since you were a little girl and have experienced things, because you have lived a good and moral life, et cetera, et cetera, you have no sin. For since everything is sin, they are excluded from the Kingdom of Heaven.” And one day God made Himself known in my Samaria. We all had our own Samaria and were in it, and Jesus did not reject us.

Jesus did not reject this woman even though He was... what? A Jew. He did not reject this woman even though He was... what? A man. Jesus did not reject this woman even though He was pure and without sin, even though He was the Son of God. On the contrary, Jesus gave her an invitation; He invited her to drink of the living water. Regardless of her condition, Jesus opened up and gave and extended an invitation—the most important invitation this woman had ever received. She had received many invitations in her life, according to what Scripture recounts here and according to the question Jesus asks her later. But Jesus gave her the invitation above all others. And Jesus began to discuss with her the subject of living water, and that is precisely the main theme of this biblical passage and of the conversation between Jesus and this woman.

Unlike her, we have already—I assume—or most of us have... what? Already been rescued by the Lord. Unlike her, who at this point in the biblical passage was encountering the Master, we have already encountered the Master. We have already been rescued, but there is another respect in which we are no different from her: even though we have already been rescued, we need Him today just as this woman needed Him at that time. There are other areas of our lives in which God wants to work, and He tells us: “You need to drink of the living water from which you once drank a long time ago. Today I have living water for you,” says the Lord.

In verses 4 and 5, after verse 4 indicates that He needed to pass through Samaria, it says that “He came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph, and there was a well there,” and Jesus was... what? Weary... from what? From the journey. The well was called Jacob’s well, and it is interesting that there are two Greek words for a well, both of which are translated “well.” One of them is “prear,” which refers to a well dug to obtain water—in other words, the hole that a human being, a man, makes in order to dig for water. But then we have another word called “pegue,” which some pronounce “peje,” and that means “the spring of water.” Do you follow me?

The well is what man creates, but no matter how much man creates and builds or digs deeper and tries to draw water, if the spring is not there, nothing comes out. And it is interesting that this woman arrived... where? At the well, at the prear, right?

But what did she find? The spring from which it truly flows, from which it is truly produced... from which there truly comes—what?—the water of eternal life.

Jesus was at Jacob’s well, and this woman came... to do what? To draw water. This woman most certainly came to perform the ordinary task she was accustomed to doing every day: fetching water for daily needs. And Jesus met this woman there because Jesus was thirsty, and He stopped at this very place because He needed to pass through Samaria.

And when He met this Samaritan woman, Jesus made her an offer, and as they entered into a conversation, the moment came when Jesus made her the most important offer—as I mentioned—that this woman could ever have received.

But before giving more details about the statement in the opening verses we read, I want to mention a few details about this dialogue between Jesus and the Samaritan woman. And the details I am going to mention will lead us to see that what God desires to give our lives every day is His blessing, His presence, His favor, just as He offered and gave them to this woman.

Jesus was weary from the journey. Jesus was weary from what He had been doing that day. He sat down beside the well. He was alone because the disciples had gone to buy something to eat, and Scripture says that it was “about the sixth hour.” That was around noon, and this woman, as I mentioned, went to do perhaps what she was accustomed to doing. But it is interesting that the women usually went to the well to draw water at sunset, when the sun had already... what? Gone down, right? And it was no longer as strong. But this woman went... at what time? At the most difficult hour, at noon. Most likely—or almost certainly—why? So that she would not run into the other women who knew about her condition. She was a Samaritan woman, and even the Samaritan women themselves, within the practice of their religion—since they understood that they too were God’s chosen people—had to be careful about associating... with whom? With other Samaritan women who led immoral lives.

So, almost certainly, this woman went at noon to avoid encountering the other women because she had a bad reputation. And Jesus asked her for a drink. Jesus asked her for a drink. And in response to what Jesus said to her, she answered Him—in verse 9—as follows: “How is it that You”—with a question—“being a Jew, ask me for a drink, since I am a Samaritan woman?”

Jesus asked her for a drink, and she fired back a question. You are a Jew—in other words, Jews and Samaritans do not get along with one another—and how is it that You, being a Jew, ask me for a drink?

For Him to ask a Samaritan woman for a drink was something that Jesus, within Jewish culture, should not have done. But Jesus breaks whatever barriers He has to break. We did not deserve for Him to come near us in our Samaria, but He broke whatever He had to break to reach us one day. Jesus breaks barriers with this woman, even having to break the barriers of His own culture, of His own religion, because He brought the living water. He brought the true water. And Jesus not only breaks with the culture, with the principles of this culture, but above all, breaking with those principles leads to a life that perhaps was…—well, most certainly was—aware of her condition. Yet although she was aware of her condition, when Jesus enters into dialogue with her, we find that, in response to what Jesus tells her, this woman gives answers, and questions and questions, and they go back and forth, and it is as though she begins to evade the dealings, the dialogue, or the conversation that Jesus has with her.

So Jesus breaks whatever principles established by the culture He has to break in order to reach the lives He has to reach, just as He reached us one day. And Jesus turns this conversation—which seems to be a normal conversation, a normal conversation about the well, the water, about being thirsty, about arriving tired, “Give Me a drink”—He turns it into… what? Into a spiritual conversation. He moves from the human and earthly plane to the spiritual plane. And when He moves to the spiritual plane, in verse 10 we observe that it says: “Jesus answered and said to her, ‘If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, Give Me a drink, you would ask Him, and He would give you living water.’”

From the earthly plane—I am thirsty, I am tired, give Me water—He moves to the spiritual plane: “The thing is, look, if you knew who it is who is asking you! The One who is asking you has something to give you to drink! The One who is asking you for water for physical sustenance because of the weariness or the midday sun—what I have really come here to do is to give you what I have to give you.”

And God says to us today: “Are you asking Me?” To some of us, God says: “You are in anguish; you have been asking for your children, for your family, for this situation, for another, for yet another, and you keep asking and asking. But I have a Blessing for you, which is that spiritual rest in your soul and in your being when you drink of this living water that I give you every day. And that living water will help you rest in the midst of your situation, in the midst of your circumstances.”

That is why I told you at the beginning that what God desires of us is that we continue drinking—what?—day by day from that living water which we drank one day in our lives.

The next verse continues: “The woman said to Him, ‘Sir, You have nothing with which to draw it, and the well is deep.’” You have nothing with which to draw it, and the well is deep. Jesus is on a… what? Spiritual plane, and she returns to a… what? To a human plane. She does not understand.

And she asks Him: “Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well, from which he, his sons, and his livestock drank?” She remains on a—what?—earthly plane. And then come the verses that I read at the beginning, when Jesus declares that He has living water to give this woman. And when we speak of living waters, we are speaking of waters that flow. We are not speaking of stagnant waters; we are speaking of waters that are… what? Constantly flowing, like those of a river, like those of a stream. It does not refer to stagnant water, because little creatures can come to stagnant water—in Puerto Rico we call them mimes—and at some point the water can stink, because stagnant water… what? Is not fit to drink; it is good for nothing. Stagnant water is dangerous to consume, but living water is water that… what? That flows.

The Bible tells us “that the spring never ceases to pour forth its water.” Jesus is offering this woman living water from the spring. Do you remember the well and the spring? Jesus is offering her living water from the spring because “the spring never ceases to pour forth its water.”

In the Old Testament, in Jeremiah, the Bible tells us that “Jehovah is the fountain of living waters.” The psalmist also tells us in the Psalms that in Zion, where the presence of God is, there are all my springs: “They are in You,” says the psalmist. “In Zion are all my springs, because the presence of God is there.” Living waters, flowing water, the presence of God, the life of God in us.

At this point we can—or I want to—mention a principle. And the principle I want to mention is this: We are called to drink from the spring that originates in God. We are called to drink—notice that I said spring, I did not say well—from the spring that originates in God. And from this point forward, I will continue mentioning the principles after having explained part of the Biblical passage and expressed some ideas.

I usually do it the other way around, but on this occasion I am going to state and emphasize the principles after developing some ideas, so that we may become aware of how we see it in the Biblical passage.

But returning to John, this woman does not understand what Jesus is telling her. This woman does not understand, and she says to Him: “You want water, but You do not even have anything with which to draw it?”

So, what? How? How can we solve this? You have nothing with which to draw it; the well is deep. That well may be seventy-five to one hundred feet deep. “Where then do You get that living water?” she asked Him. And sometimes God speaks to us and we do not understand what He is telling us. Even when we have been in the Lord for a long time, even when we have been serving Him for many years, sometimes God speaks to us and we answer Him back: “But Lord, what are You talking about?”

Sometimes God speaks to us on that spiritual plane, and our understanding is—what?—on an earthly plane. She is talking about the well, and Jesus was talking about the spring that fills the well.

Sometimes God speaks to you and we do not understand; we are blinded like this woman. That is why I said that we too are—what?—Samaritan women. Or sometimes it is not only that we allow ourselves to become caught up in family situations, work situations, and problems that sometimes burden us, but also that, on occasion, when God has called us to the Ministry, for example, we answer Him, “Lord, but me?” And the Lord looks at us and knows that He has given us abilities, that He has given us gifts, and He calls us to the Ministry because He knows that we can do it, because He is the One who has equipped us and who will be with us with His grace and His favor along that ministerial path. But we think that we cannot. “Lord! But where will it come from?” And the Lord tells us, “From the water that you already have within you.” “You ask Me where? From what I have already given you. Keep drinking from My water; keep drinking from My favor, because in My spring are found the Blessing and My favor.”

But sometimes we look at the well and find it very deep; we find it profound. We find that what God wants to do with us is very far away. Ah! With the sister, yes, but not with me. No, it is very difficult with me; no, I cannot do it. No, no, no; the thing is that the sister has grace and abilities; she has this and she has that. But I am such a little thing. If you think you are a little thing, God turns the little into much, if we drink from the spring.

We cannot keep looking at the depth of the well; we cannot keep our gaze on the depth of the problems, on the depth of what we believe we are or do not believe we are. We must keep our gaze on the spring and drink from that spring.

Principle number two: Let us seek to understand the spiritual realities that God communicates to us. Now, in verse 12, she asked Jesus, “Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well…?” In other words, up to this point, for her there is nothing extraordinary about Jesus. She knows that He is Jewish, but He is just another Jew, and she is in dialogue with this Jew. Sometimes we are so familiar with what we have attained or possess in God that it seems as though we become so accustomed to God that we forget the great and majestic God whom we serve. Or sometimes we have spent so many years in the Gospel serving the Lord that we enter into a state of—what?—becoming accustomed to everything having to do with the Lord, to the moving of God, to the Christian life, to life in the church, to the fellowship; but we stop drinking from the spring. We are in church, we are serving the Lord, but we are not drinking from the spring day by day as we should.

And with that question, this woman is considering Jesus to be less than the fathers, less than Father Jacob. When she speaks of our fathers, she is referring to—what?—their lineage.

Remember that there was a conflict between Samaritans and Jews. The Jews were the pure ones; the Samaritans were a mixture. The Samaritans said that they were indeed the true people; the Jews said that they were the true people, and so this woman is laying claim to—what?—her heritage. This woman has reverence for the patriarchs; this woman claims what she understands to be hers. With the expression “our fathers,” this woman claims, “This is what I have,” but Jesus knew who He was.

Sometimes we make claims before the Lord; we dare to make claims. “Lord, but what about this! Look, Lord, I have done this, and I have not seen You do the other thing.” “Lord, I have been in You for so many years; is it not time now for You, please, to favor me in this area and do something?” Or, “What about this request I made of You one year, two years, or twenty years ago, Lord? Will You not remember me, Lord?”

Sometimes we ask God questions honestly, like this woman who is speaking honestly there amid the back-and-forth of her conversation with Jesus. Honestly, but at the same time they are questions that reflect that we are moving away from the spring. That we are moving away from the spring.

And God is not bothered when we ask Him questions. But He will always do as Jesus does with this woman: He will seek to take us where He needs to take us. Even if we do not understand, He will confront us; even if we do not understand, He will guide us in the conversation; even if we try to veer away, He will guide us so as to take us to what He has for us, so that we may attain His Blessing, so that we may attain His favor by drinking from the spring.

This woman shows that she has the heritage of the patriarchs, but she is speaking with the Jew par excellence. She is speaking with the Messiah, and she was not recognizing Him.

Another principle: Let us not allow what we have attained in God to keep us from seeing what God has next for us. “Ah! The thing is, I have been in the Lord for so many years”; “Ah! The thing is, I have had such-and-such an experience with the Lord”; “Ah! The thing is, God has used me in this way.” No matter our heritage in the Lord, no matter our experience or the years—one, two, three, twenty, thirty—let us keep drinking from the spring because God continues inviting us day by day. This is not merely about a heritage from the past; we have to live. The past has value; everything we have walked through in the Lord is important. The past leads us to grow in Faith, to grow in the Lord, but we must live each day in the present, drinking from the spring.

Sometimes the glorious past of experiences in God can cause us to stagnate and keep us from what God wants next for us, because we feel satisfied with all our past experiences, and then—what do we forget?—that there is something new and fresh from God for our lives in the present.

What is the source of water that sustains our lives? In the new covenant, the source Jesus was speaking about here to this woman when He declared this truth to her—“I will give you living water to drink”—is the Holy Spirit. We drank from that source the day we received the Lord, but as I mentioned at the beginning, although this Biblical passage is often used in evangelism to speak about salvation, it is a Biblical passage that speaks to us every day. It is a Biblical passage for daily living: drinking from the source daily and applying it to our lives daily in our present.

Jesus also declared in the Gospel of John: “I have come that they may have life,” and that they may have it—how? In scarcity? No, in abundance. That is what happens, and that is achieved when we are constantly drinking from the living water.

The next principle I want to mention is: We must drink from the spring day by day in order to be satisfied in God and live abundant lives. When we are weak, when we are in a state of desperation and even depression. Because they say that we women—men suffer from it too—but we women, especially after a certain age, right? But when we are in depression, desperation, or anguish, do you know what happens? Even in those difficult times, what do we forget? To drink from the spring.

But if we drink day by day, then when difficult times come, when depression announces itself, when uneasiness announces itself, when desperation announces itself, when problems come, the water we are drinking constantly, day by day, refreshes us so that we can work through and deal with every situation that arises in our lives. That is why it is necessary to drink from the spring day by day in order to live abundant lives.

Now then, in verse 15, the woman said to Him: “Give me that water to drink, so that I will not have to come here to draw it.” Once again, what happened? The spiritual plane versus—what?—the earthly plane. She is understanding everything on the earthly plane. “Give me a drink,” when He is offering water which, if I drink it, well, I will never be thirsty again.

“Give me a drink,” and that way… what? I do not have to come every day, I do not have to keep avoiding the other women who know about my condition. I do not have to come out in the midday sun because I have to get away from them. “Give me a drink of that water.” She is understanding it in the… what? human sense, on the earthly plane. She is on a natural plane; she is looking at what is convenient for her.

Sometimes we, let us be honest, are on such a natural and earthly plane that we are also bargaining with the Lord, seeking what is convenient for us. And it is not what is convenient for us; it is what He knows is good for us.

That is what God wants for us. But the reality is that sometimes we are stubborn—forgive me for putting it that way… sometimes we are stubborn, and God knows what is good for us, yet we insist on what? On what is not good for us. We go on… “Oh, but Lord! Then give it to me because then… and this…” bargaining with the Lord. The Lord knows what is good for you, the Lord knows what is good for us, and He knows about the water He is offering us, which springs up into eternal life.

We can also say that when this woman answers Jesus that way in that verse, she may be toying with Jesus. Because it is obvious, on the natural plane of human life, that no water quenches thirst forever, that we need to drink water constantly, day after day. So what is this woman doing? On the earthly plane, she is even toying with what Jesus is telling her. She is not taking seriously what Jesus is communicating. She is not considering deeply and on the spiritual plane what this Jew, who truly was the Messiah, was offering her. This woman is playing around in the conversation, pulling it one way and then another, and answering what Jesus is communicating to her with questions, phrases, and different ideas.

And sometimes we—regardless of how long we have been in the Lord—are here, Lord, having a dialogue with You. What dialogue? We disguise it as…

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“No, Lord, but…” and the Lord tells us, “Pay attention on the spiritual plane.” Time…

This life has had so very many questions about why He does or does not do something that she has even thought, has thought, about leaving the church. God tells her today, “Do not look at the circumstances, and stop to drink from the living water God has for you.” The fact that you are here today—and forgive me for pausing on this, but it is very important—the fact that you are here today is God rescuing you from what you are thinking.

We return to the Word. God invites us to drink constantly from His living water. It is not what is convenient for us—the next principle.

It is not what is convenient for us, the natural plane; what is convenient for us must not take precedence over what? Over the will of God, the spiritual plane. What is convenient for us must not take precedence over the will of God. What is convenient for us is how we want God to do things, while the spiritual plane is how God determines and wants to do them because He knows what is truly good for our lives.

And it is interesting that, returning to the Samaritan woman and the passage, in verse 16 Jesus told her, “Go, call your husband.”

Oh! But wait, is this woman not telling Him in the previous verse, “Give me some of that water so that I do not have to come here to draw it”? So is Jesus doing the same thing she does, changing the subject on her?

Jesus is leading her where He needs to lead her. Jesus is not allowing Himself to be deceived by her answers, the subjects she brings up, or the comments she makes. He knows where He is going, because remember, He had to pass through Samaria to bless this woman and those who would believe through her testimony.

“Go, call your husband, and come back here.” Now Jesus reveals her condition to her. Jesus reveals the moral—and spiritual—condition in which she was living. But this woman remains very shrewd, remains very intelligent, and what does this woman answer Jesus?

In verse 17 she tells Him, “I have no husband.” Oh, so you have no husband! But Jesus knows it all. Jesus told her, “You have rightly said, ‘I have no husband.’” Of course, you have spoken a truth. She is telling a lie, but Jesus tells her, “You have spoken a truth: You have no husband.” And why did Jesus say that she had spoken a truth? Verse 18: “For you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband; in this you have spoken truly.”

The woman’s shrewd answer, “I have no husband.” Jesus transforms it and tells her… yes… what was a lie, Jesus transforms and tells her, “You have spoken a truth.” Because look, you have had more than one; you have had as many as five, and even the one you have now is not your husband. He reveals her condition to her. But when Jesus reveals her condition, He does not reveal it in order to leave her in that condition.

One day Jesus revealed our condition to us, but He rescued us and gave us the living water to drink.

So Jesus’ answer—this answer that does not seem to fit with the subject of “Give me a drink,” “I have nothing with which to draw the water,” etc., etc.—fits very well, because Jesus knows where He is going in His conversation. Jesus is leading her to drink from the living water, and for her to drink from the living water, she needed to acknowledge her sin, leave her sin behind, and drink from the spring. Then the living water would transform her.

So Jesus’ answer is a very apt answer. Applying it to ourselves, then, we can say that God asks us—not in the sense in which He asked the Samaritan woman, whom He addressed in terms of moral sin—but God can ask us, “Who is your husband?” And we can say “Who is your husband?” in the sense of: What am I devoting more time to than to the Lord, so that I cannot drink from the living water? Am I even devoting more time to my husband? I am not saying that husbands or the home should be neglected; everything has its proper balance. But you know what? I have known women who are so faithful in Christianity, Christian women who admire their husbands so much—and that is something we must do; the Bible speaks to us about admiring our husbands and acknowledging what they are to us as the head of the home—but on one occasion I met a woman who admired her pastor husband so very much that one day she told me, “If I lose my husband, I do not know what I would do.” And I… she was not saying it to me in the sense of human companionship, do you understand? We were talking about matters related to ministry, to serving God; that is the sense in which we were speaking. And I say, “If my husband is taken from me, I will keep walking in the Lord, with pain in my heart, and God will deal with that,” right? But I will keep walking in the Lord. My service to God—even if one ministers together with one’s husband—my service and my commitment to God must be so complete that I drink from the spring daily and individually.

I must appreciate what God has given me in a companion, the person God has given me as a companion, but my responsibility is what? Individual before the Lord. I must drink from the spring, just as my husband must drink from the spring, and my husband cannot occupy the place in my heart that the Lord occupies. He can occupy second place after the Lord, but not first place. The Lord will always have first place.

We must drink from the spring. Who is your husband? Do you not have a husband? Are you alone? There are some to whom the example I just gave does not apply because, for some reason in life, they are alone. But sometimes, then, loneliness occupies the place of what? The place God should occupy. Because then we spend so much time thinking, “Oh! If only I had a companion, like such-and-such a sister! They serve the Lord together! How lovely!” Then we lament what we do not have at present, or the fact that I have had to raise my children alone—how hard! We understand that the financial, emotional, and spiritual responsibility, in every respect, is not an easy thing. So we take the present situation of our lives, which God also understands and in which God cares for us, but we worry so excessively about it that we forget that He is our husband! That He is our Maker!

Even if I am raising my children alone, or even if I am alone without children because I do not have a husband, because I have not been given the blessing of being married, He is still my Maker, He is still my Creator, He is my companion par excellence. He is the fountain of life from which I must drink. He is the One who truly satisfies me one hundred percent.

I always tell the sisters that no matter how good a husband we have—and I have a good husband, thank God—the One who must satisfy us one hundred percent spiritually and even emotionally is the Lord. No matter how good our husbands may be, they will falter somewhere, just as we too falter somewhere. But the Lord never falters with us; the Lord is always, always faithful. Hallelujah!

But we must keep drinking from the spring, drinking from the spring.

Verse 19: “The woman said to Him, ‘Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet.’” Now her tone seems to change. At last—it was about time! Now this woman seems to be changing her tone in the middle of the conversation. Of course! Jesus backed her against the wall. She tried to find a way to escape what Jesus was revealing to her, but Jesus led her there because He wanted to give her living water, and now she acknowledges, “I believe You are a prophet,” because of what You are saying. And it is interesting that the Samaritans recognize no other prophet after Moses—only the Prophet who was to come: the Messiah.

So when this woman says, “I believe You are a prophet,” what she is implying is that, to some extent, she is recognizing that this Jew truly has been sent by God; that this Jewish man with whom I am going back and forth here in my conversation has been sent by God and truly has something. “I perceive that You are a prophet.”

But you know what? Even so, she changes the subject again.

Verse 20. “Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you say that Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.” Okay. I perceive that You are a prophet, so I am going to change the subject from this matter of my morality, and I want to talk about the matter of being a worshiper, about which place is the place where one ought to worship, because our fathers say in one place and you say in another. She changed the subject again, even though at one point she acknowledges, “I perceive that You are a prophet.” Sometimes God makes an impression on us, and suddenly we take our proper place and understand what God is trying to tell us, but then we want to find a way around the Lord. “Oh, no, Lord!… Wait, let me keep going the way I am going…”

We begin to understand what God wants; we begin to understand where God wants to lead us, but suddenly we stray because we stop doing what? Drinking from the spring.

The other principle I want to mention is this: Let us pay attention to the truth God communicates to us and do whatever must be done. And in response to the question, “Our fathers worshiped in such-and-such a place, so where, then, ought one to worship?” we find that the place of worship—the answer Jesus gives her—is not what is important. What matters is… what? Jesus answers her—Jesus goes beyond the place of worship; what matters is “a heart that worships in spirit and in truth.”

Jesus goes to this woman’s need. It is not where you worship; it is that if you go to worship in this place or that place but remain in the condition you are in, you are not being a true worshiper. You need to drink the water; you need to drink from the spring; you need to receive forgiveness, and you need to be a worshiper in spirit and in truth. Even with the detour this woman takes, Jesus leads her back to the truth: we need to be worshipers in spirit and in truth. He leads her to where He wants to lead her. “You need to drink from this living water,” in other words, Jesus is telling her again.

And God tells us today something we already know: that He is seeking women worshipers who will worship Him in spirit and in truth.

Many years ago, in those years Meche was talking about, or a little earlier… around the year ’74, I was converted to the Lord, and I remember that about a year later we were in a prayer service, and God gave a prophetic word and asked, saying, “I am seeking worshipers who will worship Me in spirit and in truth. Where are they? Do I find any in this place?” And I remember that in my heart I told the Lord, “Lord, here I am.” I told Him, “Lord, I want to worship You in spirit and in truth,” understanding that what it says here means serving, surrendering one’s life to God in spirit and in truth.

I told the Lord, “Lord, I want that, Lord. I want to surrender my life to You and serve You with integrity, serve You from the heart. To give You the best of me, to obey You, Lord, and wherever You want me to do it, whatever You want, Lord.” I told Him, “Count on me, Lord,” and my husband, there in his heart, was also telling the Lord, “Count on me, Lord.” And God heard our answer, and then God began to involve us more and more in what? In missionary work, more responsibility, more church work… Why? Because we told Him, “Yes, Lord, we want to worship You and serve You in spirit and in truth.”

What matters is what is in the heart. Because what is in the heart is what we will put into action. We can do something that appears to be service to God, while not actually worshiping the Lord and serving Him in spirit and in truth. That service to God becomes null and void. We can be in church, we can be here every Sunday, we can be at every women’s activity, but our heart has to be a heart that keeps drinking from the spring; it has to be a heart that serves the Lord in spirit and in truth.

And I say again: regardless of our circumstances—single, married, divorced, with children, without children, a grandmother, a sister... whatever role falls to us to live out, whatever roles we may perform, we must serve the Lord in spirit and in truth.

Later, in verse 25, the woman asks Him about the Messiah who is to come.

Excuse me, before that, in verse 23, He tells her, “But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth; for the Father also seeks such worshipers to worship Him.” This is what God is looking for. God is looking for us women to serve Him in spirit and in truth and to drink from His spring daily. And then He goes on to say, “God is Spirit; and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and in truth.”

And verse 25: “The woman said to Him, ‘I know that the Messiah, called the Christ, is to come; when He comes, He will tell us all things.’” And what this woman—who had recognized something of a prophet in Jesus—does not recognize is that Jesus was the Messiah.

“Jesus said to her”—in verse 26—“I am He, the One speaking with you.” The Messiah who was offering her the living water.

“I am He, the One speaking with you.”

And later, in verse 28, it tells us, “Then the woman left her water jar and went into the city,” and whom did she speak with? “With the men of the city,” and she told them, “This man has told me...” what? “My whole life.” This man knows what my life is like. Look at what this man has told me!

But it is interesting: Where did she go? Well, she drank from the spring, right? But she went to the men of the city, the setting she knew. She went to the setting she knew, to the men who knew her. She went and told them, “This man has told me everything I have done.” But those who heard her believed in Jesus precisely because they knew her, and they went to seek Jesus because of the testimony of this woman, who had been offered living water and confronted with the truth about herself.

We can see, then, in this passage that this woman is persistent and constantly tries to evade what Jesus is telling her. And sometimes we are persistent and try along the way to evade God’s path, way, and purpose for our lives. God’s purpose is to lead us to enjoy an abundant life. But sometimes God has to give us a little knock... right here on the head, right? And He tells us, “Oh, you are so hardheaded!”

Have you heard that expression? We Puerto Ricans say it a lot. The thing is, we are hardheaded, and God has to give us a knock, call us to account, and tell us, “Come and drink from My spring; come and drink, not from the well, but from the spring, from the place where the water of blessing that I have for you originates.” We can say that in this passage, despite this woman’s stubbornness, Jesus is persistent.

And I have to tell you that, despite our stubbornness, Jesus is persistent with us. He insists and insists and insists and insists in order to accomplish in us what He wants to do. At last, this woman “left her water jar and went to proclaim the truth of what had happened in her life.” The water jar may represent those questions she had harbored. For us, the water jar may represent those “buts” or questions, those doubts we have before the Lord—those “buts.” The water jar may represent something in your life that holds you back, or that holds us back, from what? From managing to drink the living water God has for us.

Leave your water jar behind. Leave behind what worries you, leave behind what holds you back, leave behind whatever you are holding that you must let go of in order to proclaim God’s truth in your life and to drink from the true water that we must drink daily.

Now then, although we have already mentioned the importance of drinking the living water, I want us to continue discussing, or talking a little, about why we need to drink constantly from this spring. We have already mentioned that it is so we may live abundant lives, satisfied in God and under God’s favor. Remember that I mentioned stagnant water: it is not moving and is of no use. But Jesus offers us water that is living, that is moving, that is the spring of life. That is the water we must drink—the water that is flowing—because flowing water does us good. It blesses us. The flowing water is God’s favor flowing into our lives. That is the water we must drink. When we drink that water, there is emotional healing, there is spiritual healing, and even physical healing in the spring of the water of life, which is the water God gives us.

Why else do we need to drink from the spring? We need to drink from the spring constantly in order to be transformed and grow. We cannot—or should not—always live the Christian life at the same stage. It is time to grow.

We women are very emotional, aren’t we? And God—Papa God—is emotional too. Jesus wept over Jerusalem; Jesus wept when Lazarus died. There is nothing wrong with being emotional. There is nothing wrong with pouring out our tears before the Lord.

I have done it twenty thousand times! And I will continue doing it. But there are times when we pour ourselves out in so many tears and so much emotion that we remain in that state and do not move toward the maturity God desires for us.

We need to cry! But we need to dry our tears, get up, and keep walking. We need to cry, but we also need to mature and grow. And as part of that maturing and growing, another day will come when we will cry again, when we will worry, when we will have headaches because of different circumstances; but we will also keep moving forward as long as we continue drinking from the spring.

We need to drink from the spring in order to be transformed and grow! We need to grow and improve in our character and in our attitudes. Sometimes we have negative attitudes even while working in the church itself. Oh, sister! What are you talking about? That does not happen here. Oh! Forgive me.

Yes, sometimes we have negative attitudes even in our work at church, and God wants us to correct whatever needs to be corrected in our lives. To do that, we need to drink from the spring.

I want to tell you something. There are times when so much importance is attached to spiritual gifts... I am speaking now especially about those discussed in First Corinthians, which lately have been called spiritual gifts—and people attach great importance to prophecy. That is good; it is for edification. The gift of discernment, of knowledge, healing, miracles, et cetera—how wonderful! But do you know what? One day I said to the Lord, “Lord, I want the fruit of Your Spirit flowing in my life. I want that first. I know You have given me these gifts and that You want to use me in this, and I will continue doing it. But, Lord, what good is it for me to minister this gift, that one, and another one if the fruit of Your Spirit is not in me?”

Because the fruit of the Holy Spirit—Joy, Peace, Kindness, Faith, Gentleness, and Patience—is what helps me live my daily life in victory!

So there came a time in my life when I said to the Lord, “Give me all the gifts You want. I am willing to obey You. But, Lord, I want the fruit of Your Spirit flowing in me.” And for the fruit of the Spirit of God to flow in our lives, we must keep drinking constantly from the spring. So this Samaritan woman is confronted with the truth about herself; this Samaritan woman is corrected in whatever needed to be corrected so that she could be transformed. And then we might say, “Oh, sister, but this woman really was in a morally critical condition!”

And in our case, God can tell us the following so that we apply these truths to ourselves. She was told, “You have had five husbands. The one you have now is not yours.” But do you know what? We might be told, “Five times you spoke rudely to your husband, and what you are thinking of saying to him now is rude.” “Five times you have failed to forgive your sister for the wrong she committed, and what is still in your heart is unforgiveness.” Oh, my God! We are not Samaritans. “Three times I have spoken to you about ministry, and you know that I am calling you to the task, yet you always have a ‘but’ and a ‘no.’” Ah! But we are not Samaritans like this woman, who was caught in this kind of sin. No, we are not Samaritans. Oh, no!

But on the other hand, God can also tell us, “I called you, and you answered Me”; “I called you, and you have been drinking from My spring, and today I bless you. You have been faithful with a little, and I will put you in charge of much. Because you have been drinking from My spring, My favor rests upon your life; My Blessing is upon you.”

Each one of us knows where we stand. This message is for everyone. And I tell you, God speaks to me just as He is speaking to you—through my own message. This message is for all of us. Regardless of the circumstances surrounding us, let us strive to live constantly drinking from the spring so that we can live abundant lives, so that we can be transformed and grow. So that we can mature and grow in the Lord, so that we can move forward in the Lord. When we drink from the spring, we are also blessed in obedience. Because when you are near the spring, do you know what happens? You are so in love with the Lord that you want to do nothing but obey Him. But when we are a little distance away from the spring, what happens? Oh, it is almost as if I don’t care either way! Yes, Lord, I want to obey You—but a little later. Let me take care of these matters first.

But when we stay close to the spring, we are so in love with the Lord that what we want is to please You, Lord. What we want is to bring You pleasure, Lord; what we want is to bless You, Lord; what we want is to bless Your name, so that genuine worship in spirit and in truth comes from our lips. To be blessed in obedience. Israel was a people to whom God promised fresh rain and dew upon the land, and that implies blessing upon the land, right? Crops, raising animals, et cetera, et cetera. Well-being and Blessing.

If they continued doing what? Serving God. But if they turned away and looked to other gods, then what would be lacking? The rain would be lacking, the dew would be lacking, the blessing would be lacking. So when we are drinking from the spring, it means that we are striving to be obedient to God so that we may drink of His Blessing.

God has Blessing in His spring.

In God’s spring there is no curse for us. There are times when we can live deceived lives, and the devil—I do not like to mention the devil very much. I like to talk about the Lord, but the reality is that an enemy exists who—often wants to deceive us and cover up, conceal, and disguise God’s truth in our lives. God wants to Bless us. God does not desire a curse upon us. Difficult circumstances come, but God intends to turn them to good if we continue doing what? Drinking from the spring. God wants to visit the soil of our hearts. On one occasion—in Psalm 64—Scripture says:

“You visit the earth and water it;

You greatly enrich it;

With the river of God, full of water,

You prepare their grain, for so You provide for it.

You drench its furrows,

You settle its ridges;

You soften it with showers,

You bless its growth.”

God desires to give blessing to the soil of our hearts. God wants to bless and water that ground in our hearts. If at any time that ground has dried up, if the soil is arid, God has brought you here today to tell you, “It is time for the ground of your heart to soften and for you to allow Me to stir it up again, to allow Me to work in you and give you the blessing of My living water.”

What sometimes prevents us from drinking from the spring? Sometimes it is negative childhood experiences. Do you know that sometimes we carry negative childhood experiences with us that hinder and interfere with our relationship with God in the present?

I do not know whether I have shared this here, but in other places I have shared the experience of a brother who would hear me pray to God, even publicly during services; and I would say, “My good Daddy,” and speak to the Lord as “Daddy,” using those expressions of closeness. And one day he came up to me and said, “Sister, I want to ask you something. That confidence you have in the Lord... I do not dare call God ‘Daddy.’” And I asked him, “What was your experience with your father during your childhood? How did he treat you?” “Well,” he told me, “my father treated me very harshly, very severely. My father did not show me affection. My father always dealt with me with a heavy hand.” “That is why the image of a father you had as a child has affected the image you have of God as Father.”

Although my father did not raise me—my parents divorced when I was six months old—my experience was also different. But my experience, perhaps because I lacked a father, is that when I have the Lord, He is “my good Daddy.” His experience was that because his father treated him so very harshly and he received no expressions of affection, he did not dare approach the Lord with tenderness and confidence as the Father who is ready to embrace us. He did not dare drink from that spring as we ought to drink from it—with complete confidence.

What keeps us from drinking from the fountain? Things like these. I have barely given one example, and I could give many more, but I want to move on.

What else keeps us from drinking from the fountain? We ourselves do. God has forgiven us, even things from the past. Jesus forgave this woman. Imagine if, after being forgiven and living a life of integrity before God, she kept remembering the past, saying, “Oh, Lord, but what I did...!” No! The moment she drank of the living water, God forgave her.

Sometimes we ourselves persist in remembering things that God forgave long ago. And we bring them to mind, but God does not bring them to mind. Or sometimes we—thinking ourselves very intelligent—want to prepare our lives and our path in our own way, and what happened to the people of Israel happens to us, as the prophet Jeremiah once declared: “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and dug cisterns for themselves,” broken cisterns that do what? That cannot hold water.

Living water is a fountain that flows constantly, we said. What happens with broken cisterns? The water runs, but what? There is no benefit in that water because the cistern is broken. The cisterns do not benefit; they are prepared to store water so that they can be supplied from that water. But when the cistern is broken, there is no benefit at all because the water cannot be used; it flows away. You pour it in on one side, and it escapes.

And sometimes, instead of drinking that fresh water day by day, we begin to dig a cistern. But they are hollow cisterns: whatever goes in comes out and flows away, and it does not bless us, and God’s favor is not in it, because we act according to our own judgment. We decide according to our own criteria, not God’s criteria, so we are raising up or creating broken cisterns that are not a blessing.

What else can keep us from drinking from the fountain? Giving priority to other things. Oh, Lord, but I love You! Yes, You know that I love You. Yes, but there is this, that, and the other thing; today’s schedule is full.

Yes, Lord, I have to pray; I have to attend to this other thing. Yes, Lord, You know that I love You. I worship You in spirit and in truth, but I have to go, Lord; we will talk later.

Giving priority to other things. God must come first in our lives. We may have the best desire in the world, but we cannot stop at merely desiring to be near the fountain. We have to go to the fountain.

What else can keep us from drinking from the fountain? Excuses—yes, that too. Laziness—oh yes, that too! Lack of commitment, too. Sometimes we are committed to the work of the church. Oh, yes! Help is needed with this or that. Of course I... put my name down, sister; I am going to help. But committed to what? To my personal relationship. To drawing near to that fountain day by day—when do we leave that for? For later, and later, and later. Excuses, laziness, lack of commitment. Whatever the excuses may be, so many things that we sometimes put ahead of drinking from the fountain.

What do we have to do? We must protect the water channels in our spiritual lives. When Israel, the people of Israel, was going to build cities, one of the most important factors they had to take into account or consider was that the city be built near sources... of what? Of water, natural sources of water, and channels were built to carry the water—how far? All the way to the city. Those channels were also protected; defenses were erected along them so that, if enemy peoples came, they could not poison the waters, and so on and so forth. So if we also apply that principle of how Israel built and cared for the water that had to be conveyed to the city, we can say that we have to care for the channels of spiritual water in our lives. We have to put up protective walls so that this living water, this water that God has for us, this water that is already within us, will not be contaminated. We have to raise protective walls; we have to guard what we have within us. That Holy Spirit we mentioned is the water of God within us.

We have to guard what we have within us. “Do you not know that you are God’s temple?” Scripture says in Corinthians. “That the Spirit of God dwells in us!” We must guard those rivers of living water that Scripture speaks to us about, which are the Spirit of God dwelling within us.

Sometimes we even grieve the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is grieved within us, and we do not allow Him to do in us what He is called to do. Sometimes we live lives in the Lord in which we come and go, and we are like the Samaritan woman, asking and not asking and diverting the Lord from where He wants to lead us. God desires us to establish in our lives whatever needs to be established, to correct to a certain extent—I do not want to use that word too much, but that is also the reality—to correct whatever needs to be corrected, but to continue drinking from the fountain. We must not allow our water to become contaminated. God is a holy God, and He expects us to live in holiness.

In Proverbs we are told that when the righteous gives way to the wicked, “it is like a polluted fountain,” and God tells us, “Drinking from the living water also means caring for that living water within us.” We must not contaminate ourselves, not contaminate ourselves with what tries to come through a coworker or a neighbor or this thing or that thing, or through circumstances in life that seek to lead us to... what? To stop drinking from that living water.

Spiritual tunnels or channels through which the Holy Spirit may flow under protection. The Holy Spirit has been given to us; we have the responsibility to protect and care for what we already have within us. We are called to drink constantly from the fountain so that we may live under God’s covering, so that we may live under God’s favor.

Isaiah, chapter 12—I am not going to discuss it; I am only going to read it—verses 1 through 6 say the following: “In that day you will say: ‘I will sing to You, O Jehovah; for though You were angry with me, Your indignation has turned away, and You have comforted me. Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid; for my strength and my song is JAH Jehovah, who has become salvation for me. You will draw water with joy from the fountains of salvation. And in that day you will say: Sing to Jehovah, proclaim His name, make His deeds renowned among the peoples, remember that His name is exalted.’”

Verse 5: “Sing psalms to Jehovah, for He has done magnificent things; let this be known throughout all the earth. Rejoice and sing, O inhabitant of Zion; for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.”

Verse 3 said: “You will draw water with joy from the fountains of salvation.” From the fountains of salvation, from the living water that Jesus offered this woman.

This passage is an eschatological passage that speaks to us today, telling us that there are fountains of living water. We have to rejoice as we drink from those fountains of living water.

And you do not have to look this one up; I am going to read it directly. Just listen to it. Isaiah 41 says: “On the heights I will open rivers, and fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will open pools of water in the wilderness, and springs of water in the dry land. I will plant in the wilderness cedars, acacias, myrtles, and olive trees; I will set in the wasteland cypresses, pines, and box trees together, so that they may see and know, observe and understand together that the hand of Jehovah has done this, and that the Holy One of Israel created it.”

This passage describes an entire blessing, an entire fruitful land, a complete blessing from God in the midst of the earth. Even in the wilderness, God makes it bloom; even in the wilderness, God raises up His cedars, God raises up His myrtles, God raises up His olive trees. Even in your wilderness, God raises you up if you decide to drink from the fountain.

Please stand.

We worship You, Lord. We worship You, God. We worship You, Lord; blessed are You, God. Blessed are You, Lord. Lord, here we are before You, and we tell You that we too are Samaritan women. One day You rescued us from our Samaria. One day You rescued us from our condition, and even today You speak to rescue us, or You have spoken to establish us in what we are doing in You. But You have taken care, God, to tell us that we need to keep drinking from the fountain. That we need to keep drinking from Your blessing, because in that fountain of living water we find Your favor, Lord. In that fountain You give us—that fountain is equivalent to Your blessing and Your favor, Lord.

Today we tell You, “Here we are, Lord, before You.” And I invite you to keep your heart open. Keep your heart open, because the Holy Spirit of God is here; He is ministering, or He continues ministering—He has not stopped doing so. And He is ministering at this hour; while this melody is playing, the Holy Spirit is working in each one of our hearts.

God has spoken to some of us so that we will return to the fountain or increase the intensity. Others of us, God has corrected concerning conditions that are even extreme, even extreme conditions that threaten our intimate relationship with the Lord and even our salvation. To others, God has said, “You have conducted yourself and continued drinking from My fountain. Enter into My joy; rejoice in Me even more, because I have seen your walk, I have seen your closeness, I have seen how you seek Me day by day.”

God has spoken to each of us according to our need, and at this hour I declare a word of blessing, O God, over Your people! Father, at this hour I declare a word of blessing over Your daughters, Lord. I declare, Lord, Your freshness. I declare Your visitation; I declare that fresh rain that comes from Heaven. That rain of blessing from that fresh living water that You, O God, determined to give us today, because You, O God, appointed this day to bless us! You determined to set this day apart to bring fresh blessing upon Your people, fresh blessing upon our lives, and at this hour we tell You, “Here we are, Lord,” and I receive.

Tell the Lord, “Lord, I lift my hands and my heart to You, and right here where I am, I receive what You have for me.” Tell the Lord, “I have understood what You have told me.” Tell Him, “You have spoken to me. I have received it, Lord; I have received what You had for me on this day, and I tell You: ‘Here I am, Lord.’”

I receive Your blessing, I receive Your blessing, I receive Your favor, I receive Your favor. Hallelujah!

God blesses you today. As the sisters sing a song, pour yourself out before the Lord, because the Lord is overflowing to bless you today. Hallelujah! The Lord is overflowing.

Behold, the Lord has overflowed; behold, He has poured out. Even before you came to this place, the Lord had already poured out His presence.

God’s fountain was already flowing. Behold, the Lord is in this place and is pouring out blessing. He is visiting you right where you are; the Lord is visiting you.

Receive where you are; right where you are, the Lord is visiting you. He pours Himself out upon you. He pours Himself out upon you. Pour out your heart, because He is pouring Himself out upon you; the Lord pours Himself out upon you.

Blessed are You, God. Blessed are You, Lord. Thank You, Lord. Thank You, Lord.

Sermon by Awilda Gonzalez-Tejera recorded June 6, 2009, at Congregación León de Judá

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