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WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY TO YOU?
Are you stressed out?
Ho, everyone who thirsts,
come to the waters;
and you that have no money,
come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without price.
Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread,
and your labor for that which does not satisfy?
Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good,
and delight yourselves in rich food.
Incline your ear, and come to me;
listen, so that you may live.
I will make with you an everlasting covenant,
my steadfast, sure love for David.
See, I made him a witness to the peoples,
a leader and commander for the peoples.
See, you shall call nations that you do not know,
and nations that do not know you shall run to you,
because of the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel,
for he has glorified you.
Seek the LORD while he may be found,
call upon him while he is near;
let the wicked forsake their way,
and the unrighteous their thoughts;
let them return to the LORD, that he may have mercy on them,
and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
nor are your ways my ways, says the LORD.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven,
and do not return there until they have watered the earth,
making it bring forth and sprout,
giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,
so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;
it shall not return to me empty,
but it shall accomplish that which I purpose,
and succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
For you shall go out in joy,
and be led back in peace;
the mountains and the hills before you
shall burst into song,
and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
Isaiah 55:1-12
"Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy
burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am
gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy,
and my burden is light."
Matthew 11:28-30
Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard, "Jesus
is making and baptizing more disciples than John" — although it was not Jesus
himself but his disciples who baptized — he left Judea and started back to Galilee.
But he had to go through Samaria. So he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the
plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob's well was there, and Jesus,
tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon.
A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her,
"Give me a drink." (His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.) The
Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman
of Samaria?" (Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans.) Jesus answered
her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me a
drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water." The
woman said to him, "Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get
that living water? Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well, and with
his sons and his flocks drank from it?" Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks
of this water will be thirsty again, but those who drink of the water that I will give
them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of
water gushing up to eternal life." The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this
water, so that I may never be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water."
John 4:1-15
As we work together with him, we urge you also not to accept the
grace of God in vain. For he says,
"At an acceptable time I have listened to you,
and on a day of salvation I have helped you."
See, now is the acceptable time; see, now is the day of
salvation! We are putting no obstacle in anyone's way, so that no fault may be found with
our ministry, but as servants of God we have commended ourselves in every way: through
great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, riots,
labors, sleepless nights, hunger; by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, holiness of
spirit, genuine love, truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of
righteousness for the right hand and for the left; in honor and dishonor, in ill repute
and good repute. We are treated as impostors, and yet are true; as unknown, and yet are
well known; as dying, and see — we are alive; as punished, and yet not killed; as
sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet
possessing everything.
2 Corinthians 6:1-10
I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning
star."
The Spirit and the bride say, "Come."
And let everyone who hears say, "Come."
And let everyone who is thirsty come.
Let anyone who wishes take the water of life as a gift.
Revelation 22:17
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