We have made it to the final week of this series and it is such a good one to close on. This week names two traps we all fall into — truth without love that leaves people wounded, and love without truth that keeps people comfortable but stuck. Jesus calls for neither. A community that learns to speak truth in love doesn't just get along — it actually grows up. Truth and love have to work together from the same person in the same conversation, and discernment is what makes that possible. Ask God the tone, the timing, and the words before you open your mouth. As you go through your devotionals this week, what is God building in you? Drop your notes, share a prayer, or tell us what you're taking into this final week — we want to hear from you! 🤍 Join us live on Follow Talk! https://rumble.com/user/thefollowproject/live Tuesday 3pm PST - Building Better Communities w/ Pastor Mark Thursday 3pm PST- The Testimony of Chris M.

This is where the whole series lands. The river flows straight from the throne — not from rainfall, not from anything we manufactured. Crystal clear, running through the center of the city, accessible to everyone. And the fruit on the tree beside it? It doesn't run out. Heals nations. Grows every month. The only qualification to drink is being thirsty. That's it. "To the thirsty, I give freely." 👉 As we close out this series — what's the one thing that shifted for you this month? Today Live @ 3PM PST - we are talking about us entering intpo the Hebrew Year 5787 (תשפ״ז) https://rumble.com/user/thefollowproject/live

Here's the exchange nobody tells you about: created things satisfy temporarily. Christ offers something that doesn't run out. Temporal wells vs. eternal springs. External vs. internal. Religious management vs. the Holy Spirit just... welling up. Jesus doesn't hand you another rule to follow — He relocates the source. Puts it inside you. And the part that should take the pressure off: thirst is the only credential. Not morality, not merit, not having it together. Just recognizing you need it. 👉 What's one "well" you keep going back to, hoping this time it'll actually satisfy you? Join us today @ 3pm PST live on Rumble https://rumble.com/v7e1f0m-follow-talk-self-control-controlling-ones-self.html?e9s=src_v1_upp_a

"Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life." John 4:13-14 (NIV) Jesus is sitting at a well with a woman who has come at noon, alone, in the heat of the day, likely to avoid the crowds and the judgment that came with her reputation. She's carrying a jar because she needs water. Jesus offers her something she didn't come looking for. Notice what He doesn't say. He doesn't say the well water is bad. He doesn't say her strategy for staying alive was foolish. He simply points out its limit. Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again. That's not an insult, it's just true. Every well runs dry eventually. Every source outside of Jesus can only carry you so far before you're back, jar in hand, needing more. But then He offers something different. Not just water that satisfies for a moment, but water that becomes something inside you. A spring. Not a jar you carry and refill, but a source that lives in you and never stops producing. That's the difference between striving and abiding. A jar requires you to keep going back to the well, day after day, relationship after relationship, achievement after achievement, hoping this trip will finally be enough. A spring doesn't need refilling from the outside because it was placed on the inside. This is what Jesus offers anyone willing to receive Him. Not a temporary fix for your thirst, but a permanent source. Not something you manage, but something that flows. If you've been running back to the same wells, the same relationships, the same distractions, the same accomplishments, hoping this time it satisfies, Jesus is inviting you to something better. Not another jar. A spring. Welling up. Never running dry. So today, stop carrying the jar back to the wells that keep failing you. Come to Jesus. Let Him become the spring in you.

"Lord, you are the hope of Israel; all who forsake you will be put to shame. Those who turn away from you will be written in the dust because they have forsaken the Lord, the spring of living water." Jeremiah 17:13 (NIV) Dust doesn't hold anything. Write your name in it and the wind takes it. Rain washes it away. Nothing written in dust lasts, because dust was never made to keep a record. That's the picture Jeremiah paints for anyone who walks away from the spring. Not punishment from a distant God keeping score, but a natural consequence of trying to build a life on something that can't hold weight. When you forsake the source, you're left writing your identity, your hope, your security in dust. It feels solid for a moment. Then it's gone. But look at what comes before the warning. "Lord, you are the hope of Israel." Before Jeremiah says anything about who walks away, he says who God is. Constant. A source. Not dust, but a spring, moving, alive, always producing. Here's the good news buried in this verse. It's not too late to turn back. The spring hasn't moved. You have. And springs don't run away from people, they run toward the low places, toward the dry ground, toward the parts of the land that need it most. If you feel like your life has been written in dust lately, worn thin, easily erased, faith that feels dry, that's not the end of your story. That's an invitation to turn back. You don't fix a dust life by trying harder to hold the dust together. You fix it by walking back to the spring. So this week, wherever you've drifted, whatever you've been trying to build on ground that can't hold it, turn back. The spring is still flowing. It's still for you. And it's still able to turn dust into something that lasts.