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Are you satisfied? Happiness Survey U.S34% Afghanistan35% (Legget Marketing)

King Solomon (Ecc 2) 3 I searched in my heart how to gratify my flesh with  Wine houses  4 I built myself houses vineyards  and planted myself vineyards. gardensfruit trees  5 gardens and orchards, and I planted all kinds of fruit trees pools  6 water pools servants  7 male and female servants  herdsflocks  herds and flocks silvergold  8 silver and gold singers  male and female singers great  9 So I became great did not withhold any pleasure 10 Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure (wives & concubines included)

Round hole – Square peg? eye is not satisfied with seeing, Nor the ear filled with hearing “All things are full of labor; Man cannot express it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, Nor the ear filled with hearing.” (Ecc 1:8) eternityhearts “… He has put eternity in their hearts” (Ecc 3:11)

Samaritan Woman Jn. 4:1-42

1) Woman 2) Samaritan 3) Adulterer

Living Water living water …and He would have given you living water.” (Jn. 4:10) never thirst fountain of water “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.” (Jn. 4:13-14)

stupid “Surely I am more stupid than any man” (Prov 30:2) forsaken Me hewncisterns—brokencisterns “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, And hewn themselves cisterns—broken cisterns that can hold no water.” (Jer 2:13) 2 Mistakes 1)Forgot about God – Fountain 2)Replaced with a.Bucket b.Broken

Are you running on empty? pantssoul thirsts “As the deer pants for the water brooks, So pants my soul for You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.”(Ps 42:1-2)

Thirsty ? Come Come come “Ho! Everyone who thirsts, Come to the waters; And you who have no money, Come, buy and eat. Yes, come, buy wine and milk Without money and without price.” (Is 55:1) come “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink.” (Jn 7:37) 1) Come to Him

bless bless bless bless “The LORD has been mindful of us; He will bless us; He will bless the house of Israel; He will bless the house of Aaron. He will bless those who fear the LORD, Both small and great.” (Ps 115:12-13) abundantly “I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” (Jn 10:10) full “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full ” (Jn 15:11) fullness of joy pleasures forevermore “In Your presence is fullness of joy ; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.” (Ps 16:11) abound abundance “And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work.” (2 Cor 9:8)

1) Come to Him  Relationship with Jesus Christ – The Son of the Living God  Bible  Prayer  Sacraments  Obeying & Trusting (Is 55:8,9)  With GREAT Expectations  Satisfy  Solve your problems  Source of joy

2) Confront Sin call your husband “…“Go, call your husband, and come here.” (Jn 4:16) put to death fornicationuncleannesspassionevil desirecovetousnessidolatry “5 Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. put off angerwrathmaliceblasphemyfilthy language put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsufferingbearing forgiving 8 But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth. 12 Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; 13 bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, (Col 3:5,8, 12-13)

2) Confront Sin Way to Jesus is holiness OR Way to holiness is Jesus

2) Confront Sin Litany of the sick – church is not for the saints, but for the sick - Hospital

2) Confront Sin Salvation requires a confrontation with sin Salvation causes a transformation from within God does not leave us the way He found us – We can come as we are,but We will not leave as we were.

2) Confront Sin In order to get the best, you must give up the rest new creation new “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.” (2 Cor 5:17)

3) Call Others Come, see “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?” (Jn ) deed “My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth” (1 Jn 3:18) witnesses “And we are witnesses of all things which He did… preach testify “And He commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify… (Acts 10:39,42)

1) Come to Him 2) Confront Sin 3) Call Others