God Can Use You Too. John 4:39-42

This is a short passage, but packs a huge punch in the first verse. A little background first...Jesus has just had a conversation with a Samaratin woman who had been married five times and was currently living with a man who wasn't her husband. Jesus told the woman this and she was surely a little shaken by his knowledge of this humiliating information. She tried to distract him with some questions about where the proper place to worship is, but Jesus wasn't ever distracted from his purpose. His purpose was to reveal to her that he was the Messiah, and her hope for life.

It's clear from the following passage that the lady believed in Jesus as the Messiah and take a look at what happens to her town. It was because of her testimony ("hey I just met the Messiah, he knew about all the men I've been sleeping around with") that they believed in him. God used this woman that many may have considered unusable, to reach a whole town with the truth of the Gospel. What an encouraging story for those of us who may feel unusable at times.

John 5:39-42
39Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony, "He told me everything I ever did." 40So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days. 41And because of his words many more became believers.

42They said to the woman, "We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world."

Questions
1. What would you do if a stranger sat down and revealed all your embarassing failures to you?
2. If God had to use you through one of your weaknesses, how would he use you?
3. What did you learn from this passage?