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Barriers...

Barriers. Dealing w/ the Barrier of Self. What are some reasons people create. ...Barriers. SHAME. EXPECTATIONS. PERSPECTIVE. INSECURE. "Marissa's". ...Barriers.

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Barriers...

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  1. Barriers... Dealing w/ the Barrier of Self

  2. What are some reasons people create ... ...Barriers SHAME EXPECTATIONS PERSPECTIVE INSECURE

  3. "Marissa's" ...Barriers When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?”… The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans. ) Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.” Jn. 4:7-11

  4. Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?”Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” Jn. 4:12-15

  5. "Marissa's" ...Barriers Jesus Gives Her Hope... ... she refuses Jesus Reveals the Truth... ... she misunderstands

  6. He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.” “I have no husband,” she replied. Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.” “Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.” Jn. 4:16-20

  7. Jesus declared, “Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem…a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.” The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.” Then Jesus declared, “I who speak to you am he.” Jn. 4:21-26

  8. Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ ?”…Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony… They said to the woman, “We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world.” Jn. 4:28-29, 42

  9. "Marissa's" ...Barriers Jesus Unpacks Her Life... ... she changes the subject Jesus Reveals Himself... ... she gives up the barrier

  10. Many times we do the same thing... ...with our own Barriers Jesus Brings Hope... ... we refuse Jesus Reveals Truth... ... we misunderstand

  11. Jesus Unpacks Our Life... ... we change the subject Jesus Reveals Himself... ... but will we let go of our Barrier?

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