She reminded her listeners of the words in Jeremiah 2:13 … “We end up thirsty again,” Hickerson said. We can follow their lead, or we can try to fill our deepest needs with quick fixes – substance abuse, rushed intimacy or being consumed with image or control or approval. Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in Him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.” Hickerson noted that the Samaritan woman had her own “that just happened” moment when Jesus told her He was the Messiah, resulting in the remarkable transformation detailed in John 4:39: “Jesus is talking about so much more than water,” Hickerson said. She described in intricate detail the Samaritan woman’s consternation as Jesus asked her questions and then revealed all the things He knew about her, telling her she would never be thirsty if she drank the living water He was offering. Madison Russell sings with the Worship team before Hickerson took the stage.īut Hickerson was far from done. This just happened, amid intermittent approving claps:
What came next had her GCU Arena audience unsure whether to applaud or just sit in wonderment and admire how she could rattle off this poetry with such brilliant timing. But when you look at the life of Jesus, it’s so different.” I used to think I couldn’t get in with Jesus because of the decisions I had made in my own life and my own shame. “And He will do that for any and all of us, myself included. “We have a Savior who is ready to meet you in the middle of your mess …” she said. It was another “that just happened” moment that Jesus employed to demonstrate what He will do for each one of us if we just let Him in. It was Hickerson’s way of getting into the story of Jesus’ encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well, which takes up most of the Gospel of John, Chapter 4. Each time, she imagined the disciples looking at each other and saying, “OK, that just happened.” She ran through some of the miracles He performed, playfully suggesting that He fed 5,000 people with a Happy Meal and recounting how He commanded the raging waters of the sea to be still. “Have you ever had one of those moments where you can’t believe what just happened happened?” And it gave Hickerson, Teaching Pastor and Programming Director for Mission Church in Ventura, California, reason to ask a simple question: It happened over and over while He was on earth. Jodi Hickerson was talking passionately in Chapel on Monday morning at Grand Canyon University about how Jesus has changed so many lives, including hers. Jodi Hickerson of Mission Church in Ventura, California, told Chapel on Monday that Jesus will welcome us wherever we are in life.
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