Telling the Truth for Women

Jill Briscoe: We're going to be talking about how to allow God to flow out of our lives in rivers of blessing to people. Jesus said, "I want to put a well in you, a spring of living water so that everywhere you go, people are refreshed." People often ask me, "Jill, what is your favorite verse? What's your life verse?" That's very difficult to answer. I would say usually, probably Isaiah 58.

Isaiah 58 says this in verse 11: "You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail." That's been my heart's desire, that my job is to be well-watered with the water of life. Then the spring of waters that never fail will flow out of my life wherever I go in the world. That is for everybody. It's for you and me, for grownups, for kids, for college kids, for teenagers. That's what Jesus wants for us.

Let me set the story for you by telling the story. The evangelist was tired out. It had been a long, hot, dusty walk. Not as long as it might have been if he had gone around instead of through Samaria. It had been an executive decision by the evangelist, and the evangelist, of course, is Jesus. Jesus Christ, the great evangelist who has come from heaven to win a lost world.

His team, the disciples, had arrived at the well outside Sychar just before lunch. "Great," grumbled Peter. "Now we're going to have to buy lunch from the Samaritans." Grim-faced, they left the evangelist sitting on the ancient well that Jacob had dug for their forefathers, and they set off down the hill to shop. It was hot, hot, hot. And he was tired, tired, tired. He was thirsty, which was not a little frustrating, sitting on a well without a bucket.

Of course, he who made the rivers and all the lakes could at this moment of man-time have attended to his own very real needs. But though he had the power, he didn't have the permission. For his heavenly Father had decided that he needed to endure a period of privation for the good of the kingdom. He was driven by a compulsion because he had to meet somebody very, very important that day at that well.

The evangelist batted away the flies that buzzed around his face and he looked towards Sychar. The lone figure of a woman balancing a water utensil gracefully on her head was making the long climb up the hill towards him. Suddenly, he who came to seek and to save that which was lost knew without a shadow of a doubt why he'd had such a driving necessity to come through Samaria. "She's coming home, Father," he said. "She's coming home."

So begins the story of the woman at the well. We read in the scriptures that when this Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said, "Will you give me a drink?" And the Samaritan woman said to him, "You're a Jew, and I'm a Samaritan woman." Two strikes against her. She was a Samaritan and she was a woman in that day and age. "You know the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans." Or another translation, "You know that the Samaritans and the Jews do not put their lips to the same cup."

"We don't drink out of the same utensils because you, the Jews, think we, the Samaritans, are dirty. How come you're asking for a drink out of my bucket?" And Jesus said, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that says to you, 'Give me to drink,' you would have asked him and he would have given you living water so you never need to come back to this well to drink again."

"Sir," she said, "give me this water so that I never come back to drink." The Bible talks a lot about symbolism. It talks about the symbol of water as a symbol of the Holy Spirit. It's the Holy Spirit in us that can enable us to be spring-fed, that can be that well of satisfaction for our soul thirst. The Bible says, "Come, all of you that are thirsty, come and drink."

There are people that are thirsty all around us. Maybe you're thirsty. You've come here today and you say there's something wrong. Everything in my life seems to be right. Why do I feel as though there's something wrong? What's wrong is there is a soul thirst that's never been satisfied. Listen to Jeremiah 2:13. "My people," says God, "have forsaken the spring of living waters, and they've dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water."

That's what maybe you've done. You've dug your own cistern. You're trying to drink at the well of wellness. You're into the fitness thing, and yet you're still thirsty. Or maybe you're drinking at the well of sports and you've even won the biggest race and you've got the best place on the team, but you're still thirsty. Or maybe you're drinking at the well of success, but there doesn't seem to be success enough to quench your thirst.

It just won't quit. Some of you, like the woman of Samaria, are drinking at the well of your relationships. Some of you are saying, "If I only got married to the perfect man, if I could only find the perfect woman." Some of you teenagers are saying, "If I could just find a neat boyfriend, then I'd be happy." But I'm not happy when I have found a neat boyfriend, and I am married to a good man or a good woman. There's something wrong and I don't know what it is.

You see, no man can ever love you enough. No woman can ever love you enough. No child can ever need you enough. No friend can ever friend you enough. No job can ever satisfy you enough. Only Jesus. Jesus said, "If only you knew that, I'd make you happy." I was sitting on a plane next to a self-made man who worshipped his creation, if you think about that. He said to me, "I don't need your Christ. I don't need your God. I have a great family. My kids are going to Harvard and all these wonderful schools."

"I have two or three houses. I have boats. I've got vacations. We've got a house in Switzerland. I'm at the top of my career. What do I need God for?" And I said, "Wouldn't you like that to be better?" He said, "My life couldn't be better." I said, "Oh, you don't know that. You think it couldn't be better, but I'm telling you it could be better." He said, "How?" I said, "Because you haven't got a spiritual dimension to your life."

Jesus Christ said, "I've come that man might have life and have it better." "Wouldn't you like it to be better?" I said, "A man like you would always like it to be better." And he said, "Well, what can I say to that?" I said, "Nothing." Jesus said, "I need to give you something so it'll be better." So whether you're succeeding, or whether you're at the top, or whether you're at the bottom like this woman was, it doesn't really matter.

Are you thirsty? Which well are you drinking from? Now then, the Christ of God looks at the disciples and thinks, "They've really lost this one. They've missed it. They've gone all the way down there. They've got bread. They're bringing me lunch." They come back to Jesus, and Jesus says, "I've got lunch that you know nothing about." And the disciples say, "Who brought him lunch? Did someone else bring him lunch? We've gone all the way down there, we've brought the lunch back."

Jesus says, "Lift up your eyes off your lunch." You know, the disciples represent you and me. They missed the whole thing. Jesus' eyes were down in the valley, and out of Sychar came this woman who'd gone back to tell the city about Jesus. The men, it says, all the men of the city were following her. I've sat at that well in the Holy Land. I've looked down at that place and I've taken myself in my mind's eye back 2000 years, and I know what Jesus saw.

He saw their white robes, and he saw them like sheaves winding their way up the hill. He says, "Guys, you say the harvest not ready yet. Look at the harvest. Get your eyes off your lunch. What's the matter with you? I've got food that you know nothing about." When I see the Church of Jesus Christ in America and the West today, I hear those words of Jesus, and I include myself in that rebuke.

What do you know, Jill, of my vision? What do you know of a passion in your heart for the woman at the well? You know nothing about it. You're worrying about the lunch. You need to get your eyes up and look as I see it and as I'm looking. Then Jesus said two wonderful things. "My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work." There were two things that drove Jesus Christ: the will of God and the work of God.

What drives your life? "My meat is to do the will of God. My food is to do the will of God." How do I find the will of God? You know, the question I was asked more than any other question in Korea from these kids, these marvelous, marvelous young people, was "How do I find the will of God for me?" The Church in Korea is in good hands for the next generation. We are going to be receiving in the world many of those 6,000 kids who said, "Anywhere, anytime, any place, show me how."

The question I got asked day in, day out, as those kids just mobbed me, was "Tell me then, how do I know the will of God for me? Where does he want me to go? I want to know." Let me tell you what I told them. The will of God is revealed in the word of God for the world of God. That's how you know. How did Jesus know he had to be at Sychar? Because he'd been in his Bible, the Old Testament, and he'd read Isaiah.

He understood it applied to him. His part applied to him. "I've come to open blind eyes, I've come to get hearts ready to receive God. I've come to put a well of water and life, spiritual life in people." He knew what the will of God was through the word of God in the world of God. He had his global glasses on in a contemporary context. He understood his contemporary context was made up of Jews, of Syrophoenicians, of Greeks, of Samaritans.

He understood every single piece of his contemporary context and he understood how his gifts and his person in that day, in that age, matched with the will of God for his world of God. This is God's world that broke God's heart, but God wants it back. He's going to use a woman of Samaria. He's going to use all sorts of nothing sorts of people like you and me because that way he gets all the glory.

That's what we're going to see in this story. I want to talk about three words. I want to talk about getting a vision. I want to talk about passion, compassion, and passion. I want to talk about mission. Which is my Sychar? What does God want me to do? How do I actually get there and make a difference? How, Lord, how out of my life can come rivers of living water? Well, how do we get spiritual vision?

Jesus said, "Open your eyes and look at the fields." You'll never get a spiritual vision unless you're looking at the Father. What's your prayer life doing, folks? Kids, what's your prayer life doing? When was the last time you didn't want to get up off your knees? If you look at the Father, you'll see the fields. You'll see the situation, the challenge as he sees it, and it will break your heart. But you've got to spend time in prayer.

What about the word of God? When was the last time you had a meaningful and not a guilty, duty quiet time with God? When was the last time you had a noisy time with God? When was the last time you heard him talking to you? And when was the last time you said, "Lord, I've got to go and do this. I just hate this, but I'll be back as soon as I can"? When was the last time you drew water out of the wells of salvation, as it says in Isaiah, with joy?

There's so little joy in Christian lives today. No wonder nobody wants to come and take a drink. It's all become service. "Well, I go to church, I have my little job. I do this, I do that." But you don't have a thirst for souls, you have a thirst for service. I observe, coming back into the West, that everybody in the Church of Jesus Christ in this country wants to serve in an advisory capacity. That's it.

God says, "I want you to have a thirst for people." Do you know that in the Gospels, if you look at every single incident, somebody's worked this out, that Jesus Christ spent 50 percent of all of his time with individuals? 50 percent with a group and a crowd, and the other 50 percent with individuals. How much time do you spend with a group, and how much time do you spend with individuals? Who are you trying to work with?

Who's the woman at the well in your life at the moment? Did you meet her at the drinking fountain, not the well, at work? Did you see her in the supermarket? Are you playing tennis with her at the club? Who is the woman at the well in your life? Every single one of us should have a woman at the well. There is something wrong, Lord. What is it? Well, I know what it is because I've had my heart over this passage of scripture.

I've tried to be honest with God because I'm speaking to myself just as truly as I'm speaking to all of you. It's easy to lose your vision in the doing stuff, lose sight of people. Listen, people are more important than programs. The more you get involved in the work of the Lord, the more you can lose sight of the Lord of the work. And that's true. Now then, look at Jesus. He was tired, he wanted a drink, he needed bread.

Yet he said, "I lost my appetite. Guys, get your eyes off your lunch and look down that hill." He didn't need to eat. His stomach was tied in a knot seeing what was happening. He was so excited. He said, "My will is to finish the work that God has given me to do." On the cross he said, "It's finished." Took him three years to finish the redemption of the world. And he said, "It is finished." Not, "I am finished." "It is finished."

What was it? His work. For he delighted to do the Father's will. "I always please the Father," he said. "That's my heart. I want to always please the Father. Father, what do you want me to do so that I can please you? I want to sense your pleasure." What is joy? Joy is not God giving me a nice happy feeling. Joy is sensing God's pleasure because you've found the will of God revealed in the word of God for the world of God for your own personal life.

You're winning it for Jesus Christ and you sense his pleasure. That's joy. You'll never know joy until you find the will of God for your life. That's for sure. Part of this driving compulsion, part of the passion because vision leads to passion, this comes when you understand lostness. If you do not understand that people are lost without Christ, you will never bother with the woman at the well. You will never go to Sychar.

Whatever your Sychar is. Sychar might be a difficult kid at school that's on your case, that you don't like. Sychar might be a parent that you're out of sorts with. Sychar might be a group of people that you're quite honestly intimidated by. I don't know what your Sychar is, but you'll never bother sticking your neck out, you'll never bother getting shot at for Jesus if you don't believe in lostness.

If you don't believe that the friends you have and even your enemies can spend eternity without God, if you never get that straight, forget this talk because it won't mean a thing to you. Lostness is a great leveler. All of us are born lost. And so we need to be found. That's what Jesus came to do, to find us. He said to the disciples, "Fellows, we need to be energetically at work for the one who sent me."

Working while the sun shines. When night falls, the work day is over. Boy, that phrase got to me when I found it. Listen, the sun is shining today. I don't know what the date is, but the sun is shining. There will come a time when the sun won't shine anymore and Jesus said it'll be night, totally night for people that don't know Christ. I caught that in a way I like to do.

While it's day I must be working for the night is coming on. While it's day I must be telling of the cross of his dear Son. While it's day you'll find me finishing my Father's will for me. While it's day you'll find me living with a sense of urgency. For when night comes no one can work the fields or harvest grain, save he who harvests for the place where fear and terror reign. He'll gather those we love to him, and we will hear them cry, "You didn't talk of Jesus when the sun was in the sky."

When midnight reigns for sheaves of grain, who could have had a chance to cast on him the crucified one helpless saving glance? When death holds tight, when day is night, what will we hear them say? "You didn't talk of Jesus' saving grace while it was day." Ever made a list of all the people that might say that to you? I don't want anybody I know and I love or even like to say, "You didn't talk of Jesus when the sun was in the sky."

Jesus said, "I've got to be working. There's a sense of urgency. Get your eyes off your lunch. What are you doing?" How's your vision? How's your passion? Some of us just don't like people, that's our problem. I had somebody in ministry say to me, "You know something? I don't like people. I think I'm allergic to them." I'll tell you what'll do it. When God puts his passion for people in your heart.

Maybe you've got a prejudice problem. That's why you don't like Samaritans. Maybe you've got a people problem. You just don't like people. What you need to do is say, "God, break my heart for the things that break the heart of God." Let me give you a definition of compassion. His hurt in my heart. His tears on my face. That's compassion. That means you look at the woman's heart and you see it as Jesus sees it.

How did he see it? "If this woman only knew, she'd come and ask me for living water." Have you got a neighbor whose husband's walked out on her? If she only knew. Oh, does your heart say "Oh"? Do you have a kid at school that's really messing up on drugs and things? What are you doing, staying away from him in case you get involved? Hey, Christian kids, ask God for the "Oh, if only that kid knew Jesus."

Out of his life would flow blessing instead of cursing. We don't care. We don't care enough. That's for sure. Oh, says Jesus, if you only knew. We've got to learn to see the heart of people. Jesus saw the heart of this woman. One of my favorite hymns, an old, old hymn, says, "Oh, for a passionate, passion for souls. Oh, for a fire that burns. Oh, for a love that loves unto death. Oh, for a spirit that yearns."

"Oh, for a prayer power that prevails that pours itself out for the lost. Oh, for a heart like yours, dear Lord. Oh, for a Pentecost." That's what it's going to take. Had a personal Pentecost? What you going to spend the rest of the day doing, folks? You going to go right past the woman at the well? Probably most of us are. But if only we'll say, "Give me a vision and I'm willing to pay the price, I'm willing to do my homework."

Jesus done his homework. He knew this woman was a Samaritan. He knew her history. You've got to look at the people and look at their history. Where were they brought up? What denomination did they come from? What do they understand of God? Do they think they've got to work their way to heaven? Do they know, as Jesus said to the woman, "You'd have asked of me, it's a gift, it's a gift. You can't earn a gift"?

Do they know that? Jesus knew that all her faith had got wrapped up and muddled up and it was a mongrel faith by the time he met her at the well. He understood it. He didn't argue theology. He used her religion as a bridge instead of a barrier and he walked over it into her life. She was arguing. She was saying, "Well, my church is better than your church, and our music's nicer than your music, and our doctrine's better than your doctrine."

He said, "Listen, it isn't where you worship, it's who you worship, woman." Denominations are fine. A little boy said to me on the streets one day, "What abomination do you belong to, miss?" I don't for a minute believe—and listen, all of you that are listening to me on radio—I am not saying that denominations are abominations. He got the word wrong. He wasn't even being facetious.

Lostness is a great leveler. Whether you're a lost Catholic, or whether you're a lost Presbyterian, or whether you're a lost Baptist, you've got to be found. You've got to ask him for the gift of salvation. Then he'll put that well in your life and you'll find a sense of mission. A sense of mission. So how did the great evangelist reach a whole town, a region, a world of Samaritans?

Let's look technically at what he did. He had a strategy. He started with a person, actually not a program at that point. Programs are fine, but you start with the individual, you start with the person. We are not numbers to God, we have names. God knows our name, he calls us by our name. He started with a person, an ordinary person, a nothing person. In his world a woman was nothing, nothing, nothing.

She came at noon. She came when she knew that no other woman would be around. Why? Because she was ashamed of the life that she'd lived. I cannot tell you the women that came up to me after the last sermon and said, "I am the woman at the well. I go to shop when I know my friends will not see me. I am ashamed to go out because my husband left me, he abused me, and then he left me."

My husband and I were in Nigeria and I said to a pastor's wife, "What do you do with the divorced people in the church in Nigeria?" She said, "Jill, it's terrible. There is a bench at the back of the church. And the person who has been divorced, the woman, not the man, the woman who has been divorced has to sit on that bench. She has to sit there after the congregation has come. She can't come in before the congregation."

"Then she has to leave during the last hymn so they won't have to walk past her. And that is the divorce bench." I said, "That's if a woman deserves to sit there in your terms." She said, "Oh no. A woman whose husband has abused her and left her, the people in the village will say, 'Well, you must have done something to send your man away.' That's your bench." That's the church ministering to the divorced.

Those women in Nigeria who are seeking God sit. Can you imagine what they feel like? But you bring that into our culture. I can tell you because I work with women. I can tell you women that say, "I do not shop when I know people that know me are going to be there. I'm the woman at the well." Now what's that do to you? Anything? Oh, if they only knew the forgiveness of God and that he has a place by his side for women.

He chose a woman. He knew he had to get the message out. He said, "I'll use a woman. I'll use a despised woman. I'll use a woman that's been married five times and is living with a man that isn't her husband. I'll use a little boy if I want to feed 5,000 people. I'll use a crazy madman tied to a tomb in the graveyard if I want to use a whole area called the Gadarenes."

"I'll use him. I'll heal him. I'll make him new. I'll put a well in him and out of his life will flow rivers of living, living water." However small you are, however crazy you've been, however ignorant you are, like the blind man, he'll use you to turn the tables on the clever Pharisees. He loves to use little people, no-people, women, despised, rejected, hurt people. They're usually the people that know the grace of God.

They're usually the people that are crazy about Jesus because he's met them at the well of their wantings and has filled them up. He used a woman. After he put the well of water in her, she went back and she did two things right. If you want to know how to start, how to share Christ, do it like she did it. She went back and said, "Come and see a man who told me all things that ever I did."

She didn't say, "Come and hear my testimony. I've got quite a testimony. I've been—want to hear about it? Want to hear all the gory details? Do you want to hear about the five men that were my husbands and why I'm now living with a man who isn't? Do you want to hear all about that? Oh, yes, and then I met Jesus." No. She didn't say, "Come and hear about a woman." She said, "Come and hear about a man."

You see, it's all about him and not about us. She did that right. She went back and they could see, just see the grace of God in that woman's life. There was something emanating from her. There was something flowing from her. Yes, the Holy Spirit, of course. What was it that brought the entire town out when she asked them to come, a woman like that? She teaches us how to do mission.

"Come and see a man." That's all we have to say. "Could this be the Christ? Come and see him. Come and see him." And then the second thing she did was she made sure they heard him for themselves. We've got to get them to hear for themselves. We've got to either get them under the sound of the word of God, reading it for themselves. If they won't do that, let them read us. You might be the only Bible that somebody ever reads.

They're not going to come to church with you. They're not going to go to the evangelistic event. All they've got to read is you. What did they read this morning in your life? I don't care how you get them under the sound of the word of God so they hear him. We've got to do it. Somehow we've got to get them under the word of God because when that happened in this story, the Samaritans said to Jesus when they met him at the well, "This woman's been telling us the most incredible things."

"We can see even immediately there's something different in her life. She says that you might be the Christ. Would you come and stay with us, sir? Would you talk to us, sir?" Do you think Jesus wanted to do that? Think about it. I think that was the last place he wanted to go and spend two days at that point in his life and ministry among that bunch and different culture and those people living like they did down in Samaria.

But he did it because the will of God and the work of God superseded his own personal needs. After two days, the men of the village said, "Now we believe. We believe that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God. Not because of her word, but because of yours." This is the power. We're getting away from this. We're getting away from this. If you want people to come to Christ, you have to expose them to the word of God.

Not anything else that's froth. Don't be afraid to use the word of God. It's a powerful sword. They might not believe it, but prick them anyway. They'll feel it. So she teaches us how to do mission. These last few minutes, let me talk to some of you here who don't know what I'm talking about. Some of you have come and said, "Who is that woman ranting and raving up on the stage? No wonder her husband keeps her out of sight."

I am not an evangelist. I don't know what that even means. I don't want to talk about my faith. My faith is private and personal. It might be that you, whether you're a woman or a man, or a boy or a girl, or a teenager or a college student, or an old person or a young person, it might be that you are actually the woman at the well. That's why you're here. You are not here by accident.

You are not here because somebody dragged you here or invited you here. You are here today to meet with God. This is a surprise to you, but I'm telling you, I'm letting you into the secret. He wanted you here to hear this. I am merely his spokesperson and he is saying to you what you need to do are three things. You need to leave your waterpot, the symbol, if you wish, of what you've been trying to get satisfaction from.

You need to turn away from that, whether it's men or women, whether it's the well of your wantings in relationships. Whatever it is, you need to turn away and say, "I've just missed the whole thing. I don't know how old I am, but I've just missed it. How could I miss it? I've been in church all my life, but I missed it. And I'm going to leave my waterpot with Jesus."

Then as Jesus said, you've got to bring your husband to him. You've got to bring your failings. Now, he knows all about it, but he wants you to say it. He wants you to say, "Jesus, I've had five husbands and the man I'm living with is not my husband." He wants you to name it. He wants you to call things by their real names. He wants you to say, "God, my temper has got me into trouble."

"I am so angry. I have hurt people physically. I have hurt people emotionally with my tongue and my temper. God, that is my husband, and I'm bringing my husbands to you." Jesus says, "Good, now I'm going to forgive all that and we're going to start again. I'm going to give you a well of a water in your life." So you've got to leave the seeking after satisfaction in the wrong place.

Turn around, come to Jesus, and bring all your hurt, all your rejection. Some of you are women, literally, who've been abused and used by men. Some of you are men who have been left and abused by women. You've got to bring that hurt to Jesus and say, "Here are my husbands." You've got to climb the hill of Calvary towards Christ and you've got to ask. You've just got to ask.

Do you know what the Bible says? "You have not because you ask not. You have not because you ask not." Some of you have never asked. Some of you say, "Jill, I don't know how to ask. I've been at this point that you're talking about so many times, and then nobody's helped me ask. I know I need Jesus. I know I'm thirsty. I know I need salvation. I know I'm lost and I know Christ is the answer and that he can make me truly happy, but I don't know how to ask."

Well, borrow her words. It's wonderful to borrow someone else's words. Some of us aren't very good with words. We don't know what to say. I lay in a hospital bed when I was 18. I didn't know what to say. The girl next to me said, "You are drinking at the wrong well," and I said, "You're sure right." She said, "Have you ever heard of Jesus?" and I said, "No, I haven't."

She told me about Christ and that Christ was sitting at my bedside saying, "I came from heaven, Jill Briscoe, to tell you you're drinking at the wrong well. Oh, if you only knew. If you only knew me." I took a long, deep drink from that well of salvation when I was 18 years of age and I've never been the same since. Just got worse. Just got fuller and fuller and fuller until, oh God, please, I'm a well-watered garden.

There is a spring of water that never fails within me. Just an ordinary person, ordinary college student, ordinary teenager with an extraordinary great big God living inside of me who supplies my every need. You've got to say, "I'm the woman," and use her words. "Sir, give me this water." Anybody can say that. "Sir, give me this water that I thirst not, neither come anymore to this stupid thing I'm trying to do to get myself happiness. Sir, give me this water."

Then you can say, "Come and see a man told me everything I ever did. You need to hear him for yourself. Will you read this Bible? Will you take this book? Will you come with me to church?" You need to introduce them to Jesus. Now, don't accept Christ unless you're willing to do that. Okay? The girl that led me to the Christ said, "You want to pray that prayer, give me this water?"

She said to me, "If you're not willing to stay single, if you're not willing to be a missionary, don't say this prayer." Took me a couple of days to think about that. In the end, as best as I knew how, I said, "Okay, any place, anytime, anywhere, anything. Sir, oh, give me this water. Oh, I'm thirsty. I'm thirsty." And Christ came in. Christ can come into your heart right now and I want to help you to do that.

Pray with me if you will. I want to pray first and foremost for anybody here that wants to pray that prayer, anyone listening to me on radio. Just where you are, you can just shut your eyes and say this prayer after me. Lord Jesus, I am thirsty. I am so soul thirsty. I've been trying to satisfy my thirst in all sorts of ways and it hasn't worked. Sir, give me this water that I thirst not.

Pour into my soul your forgiveness and your life by your Holy Spirit. Be my savior. Be my master and lord. And teach me what it is to do the will of God revealed in the word of God for my world for God. Thank you, Lord, for coming into my heart. Amen. Then some of you might want to pray this prayer. Lord, I am visionless and passionless. I need revival and renewal. My well has got bunged up with all sorts of things and I need you to cleanse it and clean it and I need to do my part. Then I need your deep, deep satisfaction as I yield myself again to you, Lord, anew. Take my life, fill my life, forgive my life, give me passion, give me a mission, show me my Sychar and use me for Christ's sake. Amen.