Sacred Steps: Walking Daily with the Lord

THURSDAY, 14 AUGUST 2025

 

TEXT: JOHN 4:39-54

 

39: Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.”

 

40: So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days.

 

41: And because of his words many more became believers.

 

42: They said to the woman, “We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world.”

 

43: After the two days he left for Galilee.

 

44: (Now Jesus himself had pointed out that a prophet has no honor in his own country.)

 

45: When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him. They had seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival, for they also had been there.

 

46: Once more he visited Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum.

 

47: When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son, who was close to death.

 

48: “Unless you people see signs and wonders,” Jesus told him, “you will never believe.”

 

49: The royal official said, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”

 

50: “Go,” Jesus replied, “your son will live.” The man took Jesus at his word and departed.

 

51: While he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was living.

 

52: When he inquired as to the time when his son got better, they said to him, “Yesterday, at one in the afternoon, the fever left him.”

 

53: Then the father realized that this was the exact time at which Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” So he and his whole household believed.

 

54: This was the second sign Jesus performed after coming from Judea to Galilee.

 

(New International Version Holy Bible)

 

TOPIC: MANY SAMARITAN BELIEVERS

 

The average Jew had nothing in common with the Samaritans.

 

What would have happened had Jesus been like His fellow Jews and thought it was inappropriate for for a Jewish rabbi to talk to a sinful Samaritan woman?

 

Because Jesus treated this stigmatized

woman as someone worth talking to, she became a powerful

witness for Jesus and the entire people of Sychar believed.

 

Who knows what potentials could be found within the predominantly

Moslem population of core Northern Nigeria which we ignore?

 

May be the likes of Shekau are the tools Jesus could have used to bring the entire continent of Africa to Jesus.

 

QUESTION: When was the last time you reached out to non-Christians with the gospel?

 

PRAYER: Give me the courage, dear Lord, to share the story of salvation with my non-Christian neighbors and friends. Amen.

Remain Blessed     

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