The Samaritan woman in the passage of our text was a person who lived a life that was engrossed in marital, spiritual and career dissatisfaction. When she had an encounter with Jesus Christ however, her eyes of understanding were enlightened, she dropped her water pot, went into town proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ and consequently won many souls to the kingdom – she became a great Evangelist! This is why I believe that what God cannot do does not exist, and that there is no hopeless case with, and in Christ Jesus.
The Psalmist while highlighting the goodness of God in Psalm 107:8,9 spoke very eloquently about God’s works of wonders to human creation and that He must be hallowed for His mission of satisfaction and His commission to give the grace to live lives to the fullest to as many that came to Him (John 4:37). The Psalmist said that, “Oh that men would praise the Lord for His goodness, and for His wonderful works to the children of men! For He satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness”. From this passage, the Psalmist said that the celebration of His goodness is not predicated only on the fact that He satisfied the longing soul but that He satisfies. This is sufficient to state that His willingness and capacity to satisfy is same as He did yesterday, still doing today and shall do forever (Heb. 13:8). It also confirms the fact that all powers belong to Him (Psalm 62:11) and that, He can qualify the unqualified and He can make a way where there was none.
Beloved, you need to surrender your life, family, ministry and assignments to Jesus Christ today. When you surrender to Him, He would satisfy you with His mercy. In Psalms 90:14, the Psalmist said that, “O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days”. It is instructive to note that happiness is a mirage without His mercy. When God intervenes for you with His mercy, He cancels whatever judgment that had been placed on your life, known or unknown to you, and replaces it with eternal happiness (James 2:13). This is suffice to say that when God satisfies you, He cancels every evil judgment, curse, pronouncement and embargo placed on your family line and His power shall take you to the zenith of your commission.
Besides that, whenever Jesus Christ steps in, He would satisfy you with His favour. Deuteronomy 33:23 says that, “And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and full with the blessing of the Lord: possess thou the west and the south”. When you are satisfied with favour dear beloved in Christ, your capacity for lift up shall be increased, laws and rules shall be suspended for your lift up, your level of operation and testimonies shall be expanded and you shall be elevated beyond your level of competence. When God satisfies with His favour, he turns a stammerer to a deliverer, as He did with Moses; He lifts up an unexposed lady to be the wife of the most powerful nation in the world, as He did with Esther; he turns a stammerer to a deliverer, as He did with Moses and he moves a prisoner to become the Prime Minister in a strange land, as he did with Joseph.
Not only that, He said in Job 38:25-27 that, God satisfies the desolate and waste ground and causes the bud of the tender herb to spring forth. In other words, when God satisfies you, He releases greatness on you and the position you never imagined or dreamt about shall be vacated for you. The Prophet Samuels of this world shall be sent to look for you. They will disqualify others to qualify you and shall refuse to sit down until your arrival for anointing.
In addition to divine favour, God also satisfies with goodness (Jeremiah 31:14). When you are satisfied with His goodness, everything that is good shall locate and follow you all the days of your life and wherever you turn to (Psalm 23:6 cf Deut. 28:6). By His grace and divine intervention, you shall get a decent job, even in a season of economic recessions, such that when people are chorusing a cast down, you will have a testimony of lifting up (Job 22:29). God will bless you with a good husband, He will decorate your life with a good wife, build you a house of your own, give you good cars for easy movement and enlarge your family with very good children etc
Beloved, it doesn’t matter what is going on in the world, if you decide to obey divine instruction, God will position your Joseph at His Goshen (Gen. 47:27) and your Isaac shall be domiciled at His Gerar (Gen. 26:1-13). In Isaiah 58:11, God had promised that, “I shall satisfy your soul in time of famine and make fat your bones: and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not”. The Psalmist said in Psalms 37:19 that, “They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.” Joel 2:26 says that, “you shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied”.
Beloved, please return to God today, surrender your life to Him during this Lenten season, ask Him to take full charge of your life henceforth and drop your water pot of sin and carnality. Allow Him take over the driving seat of your life while you sit beside Him. As He lives, your life will not be the same ever again and you shall continue to live in the satisfaction that is only available in Him alone, in the name of Jesus
- Prayer: Lord, take the water pot of sin and flesh from me. Please take me from where I am to where you had destined for me in the name of Jesus.