Good morning. Thanking in the natural, the woman at the well said “give me this water, so I will not be thirsty nor come all this way here to draw”. Call your husband. I don’t have a husband. You have had five husbands and the one you now have is not your husband. I perceive that You are a prophet. Deflecting, she now brings up the bone of contention between the Jews and Samaritans: you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. God had said that Jerusalem was the place where the temple was to be built, and where worship was to occur. After the kingdom was divided, the northern kingdom worshiped in the mountains of Samaria. An hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. (He didn’t say for the Jews - leaving us out). An hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. It does not matter where we worship – but rather how we worship. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in Spirit and truth. The king James translates this as God is a Spirit. I guess it could be translated either way; but to me that limits God to a single location. Worshiping God in Spirit and truth brings us back to the old saying: if you have the Word without the Spirit, you will dry up; if you have the Spirit without the Word, you will blow up. Father thank You that we can worship You in both Spirit and truth. We thank You for all You have done for us.

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