FATHER gave me a dream two nights ago which focused on “the bucket of Love”. This is the bucket of the Samaritan woman in John chapter 4 whom Jesus encountered at Jacob’s well. Jesus was led by THE SPIRIT to this encounter:
3 He left Judea and departed again to Galilee.
4 But He needed to go through Samaria.
5 So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
6 Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
Jesus ended up at Jacob’s well which is part of the Promised Land given to Joshua and the tribes of Israel. Shechem, which is now Sychar, is where the covenant was renewed with THE LORD GOD by Joshua and the children of Israel after they had conquered the land.
Joshua 24:22 So Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the LORD for yourselves, to serve Him.”
And they said, “We are witnesses!”
23 “Now therefore,” he said, “put away the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to the LORD God of Israel.”
24 And the people said to Joshua, “The LORD our God we will serve, and His voice we will obey!”
25 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
26 Then Joshua wrote these words in the Book of the Law of God. And he took a large stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of the LORD. 27 And Joshua said to all the people, “Behold, this stone shall be a witness to us, for it has heard all the words of the LORD which He spoke to us. It shall therefore be a witness to you, lest you deny your God.” 28 So Joshua let the people depart, each to his own inheritance.
Joseph’s bones were buried at this very location of the second covenant so how fitting it was for Jesus to expand the Kingdom beyond the Jews from this vantage point. The encounter occurred at about noon. Jesus spoke 7 times (Spiritual maturity and perfection) to the Samaritan woman:
1. “Give Me a drink.”
2. “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”
3. “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, 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.”
4. “Go, call your husband, and come here.”
5. “You have well said, ‘I have no husband,’ for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you spoke truly.”
6. “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father. You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
7. “I who speak to you am He.”
Jesus shattered the Jewish doctrine by interacting with the Samaritans and went on further to minister a critical Truth to her. He disclosed to her that He is the Messiah and He just told her “all things”. The hour is at hand as we continue our focus and worship of FATHER in Spirit and Truth. Jesus chose ancient Shechem to disclose the covenant with all mankind to this woman at the well. She simply came to the well with the intent to draw some water in her bucket but instead left with a “bucket of Love” given to her by Our Lord Jesus Christ. We too must be ready to encounter a Spiritual Truth during our daily duties.
I must conclude that this dream’s arrival was timely in that Jesus indicated the hour is coming and “now is”. The dream occurred on May 3rd, a notable date here in the Oklahoma City area. Precisely 16 years ago we encountered the “May 3rd tornado” with winds of 318 miles per hour which were the strongest winds ever recorded on earth at the time. The number 318 happens to be the number of Abraham’s trained servants who accompanied him to rescue Lot (Genesis 14).
FATHER is calling forth true worshippers today. HE is seeking them today who will worship HIM in Spirit and in Truth. Are you one of these whom HE seeks? The Samaritan woman arrived seeking only a bucket of water but left with a fountain of Life. That is a result of HIS Love for the woman.
PS: Another important facet of the dream was the word “ICI”, it was mentioned several times and each time is was spelled I-C-I. It happens to be the French word for “here” or “here I am”. In my high school French class, the teacher would call roll and each of us would respond “Ici”. Are you ready for the roll call?