E:94:What God Says to Divorced Women in Scripture

Learn to hear God’s voice over every other voice that has tried to define you. Get your Free 7-Day Devotional to help you: roots.coachkatieanne.com   She came to the well at noon because she had learned to avoid the eyes of her community. She had been left five times. She was surviving, not living. And God arranged to be there, waiting, when she arrived.   This episode is about what Jesus actually said to the woman at the well — and why it belongs to you. Most people have heard the story of the woman at the well. Very few have been shown what is actually happening in it.   In this episode of The Greatest Love Story Ever Written series, we go deep into one of the most theologically significant scenes in the New Testament — and I want to show you why conservative biblical scholars identify this passage not just as a moment of healing or evangelism, but as a betrothal. A covenant offer. Extended by the Bridegroom himself. To a woman the world had already written off.   We trace the full arc: John 1: Before anything else, John establishes who Jesus is — not a teacher, not a prophet. God himself, in the flesh. John 2: The first scene of Jesus’s ministry is a wedding. This is not incidental. The Bridegroom has arrived. John 3:29: John the Baptist names Jesus explicitly as the Bridegroom — one chapter before the well. Hagar in Genesis 16 & 21: The first person in Scripture to name God was a slave woman in the wilderness, met by God at a spring of water. Twice. The pattern begins here. John 4: Jacob’s Well at Sychar. Divine necessity (dei) brings Jesus there at noon. She has had five husbands — five men who left. The man she is with now is the sixth. Jesus is the seventh. In Hebrew numerology, seven is the number of divine completion. He is not her next disappointment. He is the completion she has been counting toward. Isaiah 54:5 & 62:5: Your Maker is your husband. As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so will your God rejoice over you. Ortlund on the wedding: “Not a remote eschatological event — a vividly personal experience beckoning those who have been invited.” She left her jar at the well. She walked back into the community she had been hiding from and told them everything. She became the first evangelist of the New Testament — sent not to strangers, but to the people who knew her history better than anyone. That is what happens when the Bridegroom meets you at your well. The invitation is the same for you. Today.   SCRIPTURE REFERENCES John 1:1, 1:14 John 2:1–11 John 3:29 Genesis 16:7–14 (Hagar / El Roi / Beer Lahai Roi) Genesis 21:14–19 John 4:1–42 Isaiah 54:5 Isaiah 62:5 Exodus 3:14 (I AM WHO I AM) THEOLOGICAL SOURCES D.A. Carson, The Gospel According to John, Pillar New Testament Commentary (Eerdmans, 1991) Raymond C. Ortlund Jr., God’s Unfaithful Wife: A Biblical Theology of Spiritual Adultery (IVP, 2003) Caryn Reeder, The Samaritan Woman’s Story: Reconsidering John 4 after #ChurchToo (IVP Academic, 2022) Sandra Schneiders, Written That You May Believe (Crossroad, 1999) Robert Alter, The Art of Biblical Narrative (Basic Books, 1981)   Work With Me:  Free 7-Day Roots Devotional: roots.coachkatieanne.com Apply for Coaching: coachkatieanne.com/call   divorced Christian women, God loves divorced women, woman at the well meaning, John 4 Samaritan woman, God is my husband scripture, Isaiah 54 5, biblical identity after divorce, faith after divorce, Christian healing after divorce, Hagar in the Bible, beer lahai roi, greatest love story Bible, Beyond Believing podcast, Katie Anne   #BeyondBelieving #GreatestLoveStory #WomanAtTheWell #ChristianDivorce #GodIsMyHusband #Isaiah54 #John4 #FaithAfterDivorce #DivorcedChristianWomen #BiblicalIdentity #ChristianPodcast #HealingAfterDivorce #SeenByGod #Hagar #ElRoi