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Any Not Enough Areas in Your Life?

But whoever drinks the water that I give him will never be thirsty again. But the water that I give him will become in him a spring of water [satisfying his thirst for God] welling up [continually flowing, bubbling within him] to eternal life.
John 4:14 AMP

I mean, really. The woman at the well meeting up with the King of the Universe is a story for the ages. If there ever was a testimony describing the transformation of a divine encounter, this is it.

A Samaritan woman, already on the outside of God’s promises, finds herself also on the outside looking in for what she hopes will satisfy the deepest longings of her heart. Looking for love in all the wrong places, with all the wrong people, there was a much deeper issue than merely chasing something—man’s affection in her case—than meets the eye.

Decades ago, my husband lovingly told me, Sue, you have a spirit of lust about you. No, it’s not sexual. However, you are never satisfied with anything. His words were true. I had such deep insecurity and a sense of worthlessness that nothing, not even my dear children and husband, could satisfy. No matter how much I had, which was a lot in every category, it was never enough for me. Do you have any not enough areas in your life?

We might need to look where we’ve been robbed by the enemy, others, or our own foolishness that has caused an insatiable deep well of longing in our lives. We may not need something new; we just need to realize God’s goodness in what we already have. That will be new and even better.

This was my story. I asked Jesus to drench my life with His living water—The Holy Spirit. The only One who could bring fullness, deep satisfaction, and subsequent overflow to my life. It wasn’t my trying harder to be content; instead, the new thing I pursued first and foremost was the Holy Spirit’s felt presence. I was set free. I was made new. My eyes were opened to the abundant blessings around me. And like the woman at the well, I can’t stop telling everyone about Jesus and His living and satiating water.