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or love. If you’ve always only known or heard of a hard and judgmental God, a God who holds every misdeed you’ve committed against you, then I challenge you to encounter the real Savior who has already forgiven you and invites you to discover, taste, and experience His unfailing love.
    It doesn’t matter how ugly a mess your life may have spiraleddown into. If you will open your heart to Jesus and allow His love to heal you, He can change the trajectory of your life and give you a fresh start and fulfilling future. Everything can change for the better when you begin to believe right about His love for you and learn to draw upon it!
    Everything can change for the better when you begin to believe right about His love for you and learn to draw upon it!
    God Is Pleased When You Draw on His Love
    Do you know that Jesus finds great joy when you draw on His love? Look at how the Samaritan woman’s encounter with Jesus ended. When the disciples left Jesus at the well to buy food, He was weary and tired from the journey. When they came back, they were amazed to find Him refreshed, and they wondered if someone had brought Him something to eat. Jesus answered them by saying, “I have food to eat of which you do not know” (John 4:32).
    What food was Jesus referring to here? He had not eaten or drunk anything. All He had done was minister to the woman from Samaria. In other words, Jesus found nourishment, strength, and joy when He ministered His love to her. You know, when you draw from men, they become depleted and weak. But the opposite is true of Jesus. When you draw from Him, He is strengthened, refreshed, and rejuvenated! Jesus wants us to know that He derives great joy and pleasure when we draw upon His love for us.
    When the Samaritan woman asked Jesus why He (a Jew) wouldask her (a Samaritan) for a drink of water, this is what He said to her: “If you only knew the gift God has for you and who you are speaking to, you would ask me, and I would give you living water… Anyone who drinks this water [from the well] will soon become thirsty again. But those who drink the water I give will never be thirsty again. It becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life” (John 4:10, 13–14 NLT ).
    Jesus is saying the same thing to you today:
If you only knew
who it is who comes to you in your darkest and weakest moments.
If you only knew
this gift of God who will never leave you nor forsake you, who has gone before you and who comes to you in the midst of your storms.
If you only knew
the One who reaches out to you even when you have failed and who doesn’t hold your past mistakes or present failures against you.
    Beloved, if you only knew this gift of God who offers the living water of His unconditional, endless love to you and you drink of that love, you will never thirst again. You won’t need to look for love or acceptance in all the wrong places and have your heart broken and fearful about the future and your life derailed. You can wake up with a fresh expectation of good every day. Jesus was essentially inviting the woman to ask Him for the living water of His love. Will you do that today? Your life will never be the same again when you personally experience His love!
    Your life will never be the same again when you personally experience His love!

CHAPTER 3

“JESUS LOVES ME! THIS I KNOW”
    I heard a story of a minister from Oregon who was assigned to provide counseling in a state mental institution. His first assignment was to a padded cell that housed deranged, barely clothed patients. The stench of human excrement filled the room. He couldn’t even talk to the inmates, let alone counsel them—the only responses he got were groans, moans, and demonic laughter.
    Then the Holy Spirit prompted him to sit in the middle of the room and for a full hour sing the famous children’s hymn that goes, “Jesus loves me! This I know, for the Bible tells me so. Little ones to Him belong; they are weak, but