3. Encountering Jesus: Real Satisfaction No one is beyond Jesus help So the Samaritan woman said to him, “How can you—a Jew—ask me, a Samaritan woman, for water to drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.) John 4:9

4. Encountering Jesus: Real Satisfaction Jesus ignores every barrier A Samaritan woman came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me some water to drink.” A Samaritan woman came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me some water to drink.” John 4:7

5. Encountering Jesus: Real Satisfaction Jesus offers hope “If you had known the gift of God and who it is who said to you, ‘Give me some water to drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water…

6. Encountering Jesus: Real Satisfaction Jesus offers hope “But whoever drinks some of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again, but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up to eternal life.” John 4:14

9. “When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer.”

10. “I’m never going to be smart enough. I’m never going to be a good enough father. I’m never going to be a good enough husband. I’m never going to be a good enough actor for myself.” Will Smith “I won Wimbledon twice, I was rich, I had all the material possessions I needed, yet it is the story of movie stars and pop stars who commit suicide, I had everything, but I had no inner peace.” Boris Becker

11. Encountering Jesus: Real Satisfaction Jesus offers real satisfaction He said to her, “Go call your husband and come back here.” John 4:16

12. Encountering Jesus: Real Satisfaction Jesus offers real satisfaction ‘My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water. Jeremiah 2:13