A Spring of Living Water...Finding our Identity in CHRIST

Mandate for Women’s Ministry:

But as for you, TEACH what accords with sound doctrine…Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to TEACH what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. Titus 2:1,3-5

What is Women’s Ministry? “Women reaching out to meet the needs of others.”

This Saturday, February 5^th, we had the privilege of having a women’s tea! Monica Rose Brennan gave us a good word on finding our identity in Christ! She shared from John 4 where Jesus spoke to the Samaritan women and offered her a spring of water welling up to eternal life. This woman found her identity, fulfillment, and purpose in men. Jesus offered her complete satisfaction in Him. Many of us struggle just like this woman, whether it’s finding our identity through a relationship, or friends, or a job, or education, or church, or hobbies, or hairstyles, or clothes, or cars.

Selah:

LORD, I pray that you would strip us of a restlessness of finding our identity in other “things”. I pray you would form in us a solid, satisfied identity in Christ. Be our fountain of life! May we move with purposefulness and originality as we are enabled through the power given by this Living Water! Let us find a deep contented identity in You!

A Hunger for God

“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.” Matthew 5:6

God is the ultimate source of authentic righteousness. Those who long for Christ’s righteous character will receive this precious gift of true satisfaction. The enemy to this HUNGER for God is a desire for other things. We are so prone to keep ourselves stuffed with all the pleasures of the world, when God is the only One who can truly satisfy our deepest desires.

“What is at stake here is not just the good of our souls, but also the glory of God. God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him. The fight of faith is a fight to feast on all that God is for us in Christ.”-(John Piper)

What we hunger for most, we worship!

SEARCH us, O God:

Are we in bondage to the pleasures of this world so that, for all our talk about the glory of God, we love television and food and sleep and sex and money and human praise just like everybody else? If so, let us repent and fix our faces like flint toward the Word of God in prayer. (Augustine & Piper)

Selah:

O LORD, open my eyes to see that in your presence is fullness of joy and at your right hand are pleasures forevermore! Psalms 16