Spirit and in Truth.

I'd like to take this thought from John Chapter 4: 8-26 This is the account of the Samaria woman at the well. To receive something from the Lord, you must be truthful.

John 4:13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:
John 4:14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
John 4:15 The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.
John 4:16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.
John 4:17 The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:
John 4:18 For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.

If this woman had not been honest, she would have missed her chance for salvation. This was her "test" to see if she would be honest before the Lord. You can't receive any thing from the Lord unless you are honest before God, yourself and others.

We also need to look and see how Jesus was compassionate unto this woman. How very different he was to her compared to the Pharisees of the time.

John 8:3 And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,
John 8:4 They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.
John 8:5 Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?

Now my question to you is this. When someone comes to you with a need, which person are you? When you find out something, are you ready to stone or are you ready to forgive? Are you willing, when someone is honest to you about their needs, to help that person in friendship and in prayer. Or will you just take them to the Lord like the Pharisees did in condemnation? Both women made it to the Lord, but the Pharisees didn't.

Look how Paul in 2 Corinthians desired the prayers, friendship, and fellowship of others. He came in honesty and in a true display of wanting friendship.

2 Cor 7:2 Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.
2 Cor 7:3 I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you.

I prayed for a man who was in a Mexican prison. I had his name written on a prayer list for three years in my Bible. One day this man walked up to me and introduced himself to me. When he told me his name, I told him that I had been praying for him. He told me that he knew because he felt my spirit in the prison praying for him. We had never met before that time.

Rom 13:10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Rom 13:11 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
Rom 13:12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
Rom 13:13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
Rom 13:14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Rom 14:1 Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.

The worlds always says "been there, done that", but as Christians let's "be there" for someone. Your prayers will make a difference.

James 5:16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
James 5:17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
James 5:18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
James 5:19 Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
James 5:20 Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.

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John 4:14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

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