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E:94:What God Says to Divorced Women in Scripture
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- May 21, 2026
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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 c…