DAY 22: THE RICHES OF GOD’S MERCY IN THE NEW TESTAMENT I- THE SAMARITAN WOMAN

 THE RHEMA WORD FOR TODAY

(A DAILY DEVOTIONAL WITH PREACHER SAM)

 

TOPIC: THE RICHES OF GOD’S MERCY IN THE NEW TESTAMENT I- THE SAMARITAN WOMAN

DATE: 22 SEPTEMBER, 2021

BIBLE READING: JOHN 4:3-26

VERSE FOR MEDITATION: JOHN 4:4 NKJV

But He needed to go through Samaria.

 

Let’s progress onward on the riches of God’s mercy in few more people in the New Testament.

In our Bible reading, Jesus left Judea and departed again to Galilee. This reveals that he had travelled from Judea to Galilee before, but this time he needed to go through Samaria. That is something prompted him to take that route. Normally, a Jew does not travel through Samaria, but Jesus was led to pass through Samaria.

Philippians 2:13 NKJV

For it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.

            It was the Spirit of God at work in him at that time. It was Jesus that said, “… the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner.” (Jn. 5:19 c.f. Jn. 5:30; 8:28).

He needed to go through Samaria because the riches of God’s mercy was about to visit a Samaritan woman. The Jews ought to be the first to receive the gospel of Christ before the gentiles (Jn. 4:22; Matt. 15:24; Rom. 1:16; Acts 1:8; 3:26; 13:46). But this woman enjoyed the riches of God’s mercy. God had to lead Jesus through Samaria, so that He can shower His mercy upon her.

Now understand that this woman was not just a Samaritan woman but an unfaithful wife. But the mercy of God abounded and she encountered the Messiah. This is what the riches of His mercy does to anyone who come to Him thirsty.

 

PRAYER: Dear Lord, I thank you that Your rich mercy has found me.

 

DECLARATION: BLESS THE LORD O MY SOUL AND FORGET NOT ALL THE RICHES OF HIS MERCY.

 

JOURNEY THROUGH THE PAULINE’S EPISTLE: 1 THESSALONIANS 4-5; 2 THESSALONIANS 1