February Impoverished Ministry Of JESUS
\n\u201cFrom whence then hast Thou that living water?\u201d John 4:11<\/p>\n
\u201cThe well is deep\u201d \u2013 and a great deal deeper than the Samaritan woman knew! Think of the depths of human nature, of human life, think of the depths of the \u201cwells\u201d in you. Have you been impoverishing the ministry of Jesus so that He can not do anything? Suppose there is a well of fathomless trouble inside your heart, and Jesus comes and says \u2013 \u201cLet not your heart be troubled\u201d; and you shrug your shoulders and say, \u201cBut, Lord, the well is deep; You cannot draw up quietness and comfort out of it.\u201d No, He will bring them down from above. Jesus does not bring anything up from the wells of human nature. We limit the Holy One of Israel by remembering what we have allowed Him to do for us in the past, and by saying, \u201cOf course I cannot expect God to do this thing.\u201d The thing that taxes almightiness is the very thing which we as disciples of Jesus ought to believe He will do. We impoverish His ministry the moment we forget He is Almighty; the impoverishment is in us, not in Him. We will come to Jesus as Comforter or as Sympathizer, but we will not come to Him as Almighty. <\/p>\n
The reason some of us are such poor specimens of Christianity is because we have no Almighty Christ. We have Christian attributes and experiences, but there is no abandonment to Jesus Christ. When we get into difficult circumstances, we impoverish His ministry by saying \u2013 \u201cOf course He cannot do any thing,\u201d and we struggle down to the deeps and try to get the water for ourselves. Beware of the satisfaction of sinking back and saying \u2013 \u201cIt can\u2019t be done\u201d; you know it can be done if you look to Jesus. The well of your incompleteness is deep, but make the effort and look away to Him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
February Impoverished Ministry Of JESUS \u201cFrom whence then hast Thou that living water?\u201d John 4:11<\/p>\n
\u201cThe well is deep\u201d \u2013 and a great deal deeper than the Samaritan woman knew! Think of the depths of human nature, of human life, think of the depths of the \u201cwells\u201d in you. Have you been impoverishing the ministry […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-43224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-utmost","tag-my-utmost-for-his-highest","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}