{"id":8238,"date":"2011-06-21T19:00:37","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T00:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/?p=8238"},"modified":"2011-06-21T09:19:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T14:19:00","slug":"blogging-gospels-john-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/blogging-gospels-john-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging Through the Gospels: Are you willing to share your testimony?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guest SOAP Post from Milly.<\/p>\n<p>The reading for <strong>Wednesday is John Chapter 4<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>Scripture:<\/h2>\n<p><strong>John 4:29 NIV<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cCome, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Observation:<\/h2>\n<p>Jesus  had just met the Samaritan woman at the well and explained to her about  the gift of living water available for all who believe and ask. She  recognized how special and amazing he was and went to town to share with  the people.  Am I as eager to share with others when I have experienced  the power of Jesus in my life, or have I hesitated, thinking they won\u2019t  want to hear about my experience?<\/p>\n<h2>Application:<\/h2>\n<p>The  Samaritan woman shared her testimony of her experience with Jesus at the  well.  Because of her sharing they came to see and hear Jesus and now  they believed. Often, I feel hesitant to share my faith with others. I  initially want to share, then fear and doubt creeps in and life goes on  as usual. The Samaritan woman just shared her personal experience and  the people in turn were led to experience Jesus for themselves. We can  and are called to do the same.<\/p>\n<h2>Prayer:<\/h2>\n<p>Lord,  help me to be a strong witness for you, never hesitating to share with  others how you are impacting my life.  Let the power of your Spirit fill  me with confidence. Teach and empower me be to an effective witness to  those around me. Thank you Lord Jesus for being patient with me as I  strive to be a true worshiper, worshiping you in spirit and truth.<\/p>\n<p><em>Milly  is the mother of 3 adult children, has a small family daycare in her  home, and enjoys sharing how God speaks to her through scripture each  day on twitter at <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/word4you\">word4you<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>What about you? What did you see and hear in your reading   of Luke 4? <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><\/em><\/strong><em>Be sure to record your own <\/em><a href=\"..\/what-is-soap\/\" target=\"_blank\">SOAP observations<\/a> and feel free share your own thoughts or a link to your thoughts, here, too.<\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><em>Didn&#8217;t start reading or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/29\/blogging-through-the-gospels-with-momstoolbox\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blogging Through\u00a0 the Gospels<\/a> with us? That&#8217;s okay, join in anytime. Each Sunday evening I post the    reading schedule for the week ahead and each evening I post the next    day&#8217;s reading assignment and devotional. Feel free to jump in where we    are anytime and blog or journal along using the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/what-is-soap\/\" target=\"_blank\">SOAP format<\/a><\/em><em>. <\/em><em> Feel free to share your thoughts on Twitter using the #Gospels hashtag, too.<\/em><strong><em> <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em> <\/em><\/strong><em>If  you would be interested in sharing your own SOAP observations on   MomsToolbox as a guest SOAP&#8217;er, please send me an email using the   contact button on the top right. I&#8217;ll be in touch soon to discuss the   details.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest SOAP Post from Milly. The reading for Wednesday is John Chapter 4. Scripture: John 4:29 NIV \u201cCome, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?\u201d Observation: Jesus had just met the Samaritan woman at the well and explained to her about the gift of living water available [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[682,82,672],"class_list":["post-8238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging-through-the-gospels","tag-blogging-through-the-gospels","tag-john","tag-soap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8238"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8240,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8238\/revisions\/8240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}