INFLUENCE 4 - My example can encourage others to come to Jesus.

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Devotional Thoughts about John 4:5-42

The emphasis in this lesson isn’t the usual one for this passage—Jesus’ personal evangelism methods—but rather it’s about the woman’s spontaneous evangelism from the moment she discovered who Jesus was (4:28-30).

Knowing her questionable background revealed earlier in the story (4:17), many of us might hesitate to call her a good influence, but in this area she certainly was. She went to tell the people in her life that Jesus was the Christ whom God had promised to send.

Those people admitted that her faith influenced them to believe, bringing them to the well to find out for themselves who Jesus was. Imagine all the questions they must have peppered Him with in the two days he spent there! At the end, their initial interest had become their own faith, and the woman’s initiative hat set it all in motion (4:42).

Lord, please give me the courage to follow this woman’s good example.

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