{"id":3050,"date":"2014-04-23T00:01:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T23:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/?p=3050"},"modified":"2014-04-03T10:33:05","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T09:33:05","slug":"worthy-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/2014\/04\/23\/worthy-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"Worthy Purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p align=\"center\"><i>\u2018Then Jesus explained: \u201cMy nourishment comes from doing the will of God, who sent me, and from finishing his work\u2019 <a title=\"Read the Bible\" href=\"http:\/\/bible.com\/116\/jhn.4.34.nlt\" target=\"_blank\">John 4:34<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2018<i>Go and get your husband\u201d, Jesus told her. \u201cI don\u2019t have a husband,\u201d the woman replied. Jesus said, \u201cYou\u2019re right! You don\u2019t have a husband\u2026<\/i>\u2019 <a title=\"Read the Bible\" href=\"http:\/\/bible.com\/116\/jhn.4.16-18.nlt\" target=\"_blank\">John 4:16-18<\/a>. Jesus connected to the Samaritan woman\u2019s story by word of knowledge while He was talking with her. She was astonished as Jesus began to tell her her life\u2019s history. When we develop friendships, the purpose is to discover stories. <!--more-->When we focus on building trust no matter how long, developing and discovering people\u2019s stories, fantastic doors open to us. Discovering stories show us how best to serve people. Study Jesus\u2019 conversation with the woman by the well, notice how her level of interest grew as Jesus connected to her story. There was a man that I was developing friendship with some time ago. I would hang out with him and just talk. I was discovering his story. I found that his major problem was fraud. There were not many like him back then who were into that line of fraud. He told me that he had a problem with being born again because he had a girlfriend who claimed to be born again but was intimate with him. So his problem was someone professing Christ but not living a godly life. Even a sinner knows how a Christian should behave.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>The third D<\/b>: Discern the appropriate next steps. If you are going to break the ice effectively you have to consistently <i>develop<\/i> friendships in order to <i>discover<\/i> stories so that you can <i>discern<\/i> the appropriate next steps and break the ice. For the case of my friend that I mentioned earlier, discerning the appropriate next steps would be to tell him that the lady is just compromising because she thinks she will lose him. Guess what, when he eventually gave his life to Christ, the first thing he did was terminate that proposed marriage relationship. He said if she was saved and was intimate with him, now that he is saved he does not know whether she would be faithful if they get married. In other words, if she couldn\u2019t be faithful to Jesus, how can she be faithful to him? Everything you abandon Jesus for will abandon you for Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>Prayer<\/b>: Father, help me walk worthy of You. I pray that my obedience and passion for You will lead others to You, in Jesus Name.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Then Jesus explained: \u201cMy nourishment comes from doing the will of God, who sent me, and from finishing his work\u2019 John 4:34 &nbsp; \u2018Go and get your husband\u201d, Jesus told her. \u201cI don\u2019t have a husband,\u201d the woman replied. Jesus said, \u201cYou\u2019re right! You don\u2019t have a husband\u2026\u2019 John 4:16-18. 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