The Living Water

Posted : 10 Oct, 2011 06:17 AM

May be my message to my friend Walid will be useful for you too:



Walid salam,



I haven�t heard from you for a while and I decided to write for you a message.

I want to share with you what happened with me during one of my trips to Arab countries.

I was walking at the harbor in one of such countries. It was a very beautiful place and old ships are coming there from many countries. I was looking there for Muslims who could be ready to talk to me about my God. I was looking for them to share with them my faith, knowing that according to Muslim laws I could be sentenced to death. As you know, it is forbidden to prophylitize in Muslim states. And capital punishment is used for such crimes against the Muslims states. They call such crimes as capital crimes or capital offences or religious crimes.



Why we do not obey Muslim laws and why we always prophylitize in Muslim states and spread Christianity? Because our God Jesus called His disciples and gave them last command:



And He said to them, �Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.

He who believes and is baptized will be saved;

but he who does not believe will be condemned.

And these signs will follow those who believe:

In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues;

they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.�

Mark 16: 15-18



The Great Commission

Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, to the mountain which Jesus had appointed for them. When they saw Him, they worshiped Him; but some doubted.

And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, �All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.� Amen. Matthew 28: 16-20



That�s why, Walid, we do not obey your Muslim laws. We violate them and we spread the Gospel/Good News of Salvation to every Arab and Muslim. We risk much and we OBEY God. Because He called us ALL to salvation! Yesterday I told you words of a worship song we sing to God:





He is jealous for me, Loves like a hurricane, I am a tree,

Bending beneath the weight of his wind and mercy.

When all of a sudden, I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory,

And I realize just how beautiful You are,

And how great Your affections are for me.



And oh, how He loves us so

Oh how He loves us,

How He loves us so



We are His portion and He is our prize

Drawn to redemption by the grace in His eyes

If grace is an ocean, we're all sinking

So Heaven meets earth like an unforeseen kiss

And my heart turns violently inside of my chest

I don't have time to maintain these regrets

When I think about the way



Walid, I told you before that you worship another god who NEVER claimed to be the God of Israel. I even told you that your god was created by demon/jinns. Why do I say that? On the basis of the words of God said 2,000 years before the existence of Islam! No matter which god you are worshipping, listen to me today: both the God of Israel and His Son love you. God is jealous for you. He loves you like a hurricane and He accompanied Israelites when He led them out of their slavery of Egypt. He went before them in a pillar of smoke and cloud to show them the way and protect them giving them light to see in the darkness of the wilderness while they were trying to escape the Egyptian Army. He even was with them in the midst of the sea in this pillar when they crossed the sea, trying to escape the Egyptian Army.



By day the LORD went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to guide them on their way and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel by day or night.

Exodus 13:21



The same God who went with Israelis in this pillar of smoke and cloud came to you to Saudi Arabia. He found your heart and He said to your heart about His infinite love toward you. His Son died instead of you on the cross to give you eternal life. Just remember that there is ONE God who loves you and He proclaimed His names: the God of Love. The God of Israel!

There is no other God! This God calls you HOME. Join His Army of followers and worship God in your heart and mind on this planet earth and in His Kingdom created for you! His Kingdom was created for you since the beginning! Since the foundation of the World! God knows your name and calls you by your name to go HOME!

God�s Everlasting Love

What then shall we say to these things?

If God is for us, who can be against us?

He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all,

how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?

Who shall bring a charge against God�s elect? It is God who justifies.

Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?

Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

As it is written:



� For Your sake we are killed all day long;

We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.�



3Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:31-39



Yes, Walid, you live in your own world but God from another world will ALWAYS love you because He is YOUR FATHER! Just remember that when you worship your Islamic god. Just remember that the God of Israel has been FAITHFUL to you in His love. According to Islam, you will be always a slave of your Islamic god. But my God considers you as child of God. Yes, He is your Creator and He respects your will and will never violate it. The God, who is Justice and Mercy, can respect your soul and free will which He gave you! You can choose how you are going to react and act daily. I remember how I talked to a drug dealer sitting on a street in Cairo about God Jesus. His life was broken by destruction of his choices he made daily. He cries when he heard about my God Jesus. He chose his way of life but God also chose salvation for him and you too. You made your choices how to worship God and whom to believe in. God chose to give you His Son that you would look at Him, reading the Holy Scripture. Looking at the Son, you saw His Father. The Son of God took sins of millions of drug dealers and washed their hands, arms and feet to make them HOLY. He took their sins and suffered instead of them. He is the God of LOVE. He is the God of Israel. These are His names. God chose His WAY to their hearts. He came to them by being faithful and loving to His creatures once created by Him. All these creatures have a GREAT potential God gave them. He created them to be conquerors, sons of God, holy inheritance, heirs. This is the will of God who is LOVE!



A man (may be an owner) from an old trade ship came down from his ship. I asked him where could I find water. I asked that knowing that it is impossible because it was a time of Ramadan. By drinking a water in a Muslim state, I would violate another law which commanded to fast. I need some water to live�.Muslims need the living water to find in their Muslim states to live and to survive in our world. I was in the same state as this man. He turned and disappeared in his ship, bringing for me in a while a glass of water. About 30-40 Pakistani sailors, Arabs and Iranians looked at me and him giving me water. Knowing that I could be arrested, I took water and drank there. I saw how this brave man risked much for me too, so BOLDLY violating Muslim laws. He did what I did there: he gave me water and I was seeking for people to give them the living water of eternal life through the FAITH in the Son of God. I talked to him and gave him a video film, saying about the Love of Jews toward Arabs in Israel. I told him that I was a Jew. He said that he was an Iranian. So, two enemies met together bringing water to each other. Iran and Israel met giving water to each other and there was peace which God created in our hearts and called us all to live in. Because He is the God of Peace. By violating the laws of this Muslim state, we implemented the law of the God of Israel which commands us to LOVE each other and our enemies.



He was surprised to see me there and talking to me- his enemy. So many Arabs were starring at me how I drank water�.Then I saw how many white doves were dying there�.they needed fresh and not salt water �This Iranian man gathered them and tried to give them water too�.I joined him to help birds�..His heart was crying seeing death and destruction of their lives. That�s why only he helped them to survive, knowing that there is no chance that they would open their mouth and drink a few drops of water. They were dying�.And even being in a need of water they could not accept water�..I asked him to hide from police a Christian DVD film I gave him. He accepted it also knowing that he again should risk much�.A life full of risk and the God of Israel was close to His kind heart.



We risk much and we know that not laws, nor any traditions, people or people�s opinion can separate us from the Living and Loving God. If we need the water, He gives us FREE. He gives us the living water.



John 4

A Samaritan Woman Meets Her Messiah

1 Therefore, when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John 2 (though Jesus Himself did not baptize, but His disciples), 3 He left Judea and departed again to Galilee. 4 But He needed to go through Samaria.

5 So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 6 Now Jacob�s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, �Give Me a drink.� 8 For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

9 Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, �How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?� For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.

10 Jesus answered and said to her, �If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, �Give Me a drink,� you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.�

11 The woman said to Him, �Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water? 12 Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?�

13 Jesus answered and said to her, �Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.�

15 The woman said to Him, �Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.�

16 Jesus said to her, �Go, call your husband, and come here.�

17 The woman answered and said, �I have no husband.�

Jesus said to her, �You have well said, �I have no husband,� 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you spoke truly.�

19 The woman said to Him, �Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.�

21 Jesus said to her, �Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father. 22 You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. 23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. 24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.�

25 The woman said to Him, �I know that Messiah is coming� (who is called Christ). �When He comes, He will tell us all things.�

26 Jesus said to her, �I who speak to you am He.�

The Whitened Harvest

27 And at this point His disciples came, and they marveled that He talked with a woman; yet no one said, �What do You seek?� or, �Why are You talking with her?�

28 The woman then left her waterpot, went her way into the city, and said to the men, 29 �Come, see a Man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?� 30 Then they went out of the city and came to Him.

31 In the meantime His disciples urged Him, saying, �Rabbi, eat.�

32 But He said to them, �I have food to eat of which you do not know.�

33 Therefore the disciples said to one another, �Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?�

34 Jesus said to them, �My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work. 35 Do you not say, �There are still four months and then comes the harvest�? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest! 36 And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. 37 For in this the saying is true: �One sows and another reaps.� 38 I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labors.�

The Savior of the World

39 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified, �He told me all that I ever did.� 40 So when the Samaritans had come to Him, they urged Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days. 41 And many more believed because of His own word.

42 Then they said to the woman, �Now we believe, not because of what you said, for we ourselves have heard Him and we know that this is indeed the Christ,[a] the Savior of the world.�

Welcome at Galilee

43 Now after the two days He departed from there and went to Galilee. 44 For Jesus Himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country. 45 So when He came to Galilee, the Galileans received Him, having seen all the things He did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they also had gone to the feast.

A Nobleman�s Son Healed

46 So Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee where He had made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum. 47 When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and implored Him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. 48 Then Jesus said to him, �Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will by no means believe.�

49 The nobleman said to Him, �Sir, come down before my child dies!�

50 Jesus said to him, �Go your way; your son lives.� So the man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way. 51 And as he was now going down, his servants met him and told him, saying, �Your son lives!�

52 Then he inquired of them the hour when he got better. And they said to him, �Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.� 53 So the father knew that it was at the same hour in which Jesus said to him, �Your son lives.� And he himself believed, and his whole household.

54 This again is the second sign Jesus did when He had come out of Judea into Galilee.





Brothers, let me repeat that:

�How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?�

For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.�



Answer now to a question: why did this Iranian man risked much to give me water when all Muslims were looking at us? He knew that I was a Jew. And He talked to me and continued to risk much by accepting the forbidden Christian video film saying about the God Jesus. Why hatred of his country toward Jewish people did not stop him from being a loving and kind person who suffered much even seeing the death of multitude of white doves? God desires to make us all such loving and kind people suffering and risking much for the dying world and people who die not knowing the God of Israel and His Son Jesus. Who would give them water of life? Who would give me water? Who would give us the living water springing up into everlasting life? There is only ONE God who gives this water FREE. His name is the God Jesus!



Revelation 22: 1-5

The River of Life

And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal,

proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb.

In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him.

They shall see His face, and His name shall be on their foreheads.

There shall be no night there: They need no lamp nor light of the sun,

for the Lord God gives them light. And they shall reign forever and ever.





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