The Grace and Peace of God: Love Wins!

Plant. Water. Release. | 1 Corinthians 3:6–7

What if the thing exhausting you isn't the assignment Godgave you—but the outcome you were never meant to carry?

Paul wrote, “I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave theincrease.”

In today's Daily Draw, we explore what it means tofaithfully steward what God places in our hands while releasing the resultsback into His.

Sometimes the outcome we're trying to control isn't success.

Sometimes it's acknowledgment.

Understanding.

Vindication.

Another person's response.

Or simply the desire to know that what we've plantedmattered.

Through personal experiences involving Scripture card decks,a treasured Bible passed into someone else's hands, and the unexpected waysencouragement sometimes arrives, we discover that biblical surrender isn'tindifference.

Release is not surrendering truth.

It is surrendering control of the response.

We can still care deeply.

We can still pray consistently.

We can still show up faithfully.

We can still love generously.

We can establish appropriate boundaries and take appropriateaction.

But we can stop carrying a responsibility God never gave us.

And perhaps the most surprising lesson is this:

Sometimes the first soil God intended to cultivate wasour own heart.

If others have been planting and watering seeds of faith inyour life, today's Daily Draw also includes an invitation to personally respondto Jesus Christ and receive His free gift of salvation.

Plant what God gives you.

Water what He entrusts to you.

Release what belongs to Him.

You were never responsible for the increase.

God is.

One day. One truth. One step closer to Jesus.

Drawing from the Deep Well with Pamela Pastor | The Woman atthe Well

From Greeting Card to Prayer Card

What if the greeting cards sitting in a drawer could becomesomething more?

In Day Eighteen of Drawing from the Deep Well, Pamelashares a wonderfully simple practice introduced to her by her sister-in-law: don'tthrow the cards away just yet—pray through them.

A birthday card, Christmas card, thank-you note, or simple“thinking of you” can become a prompt to bring another person's name beforeGod.

You don't have to know everything happening in their life.You don't need an elaborate prayer system. And they don't even need to know youprayed.

Just you, their card, and God.

Drawing from Matthew 6:6, James 5:16, and Romans 8:26,today's devotional explores the beauty of secret intercession and the HolySpirit's help when we don't know exactly what to pray.

Today's challenge couldn't be simpler:

Find one card. Read one name. Pray one prayer.

They gave you a card.

You give them a prayer.

Because the card may eventually be discarded—

but the prayer never was.

Drawing from the Deep Well — The Woman at the Well

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Love Is More Than a Sentiment

We say we love our spouse, our children, ourfriends—and sometimes chocolate, shoes, restaurants, and television shows. Hasone little word become so familiar that we've forgotten what biblical loveactually means?

In today's Drawing from the Deep Well, Pamelaexplores the difference between feeling love, talking about love, and livinga life in which love becomes visible.

Scripture tells us that God is love and that we lovebecause He first loved us. Genuine love therefore isn't merely a sentiment, agift, a romantic gesture, or something we say. It reaches out, serves, listens,forgives, celebrates, carries burdens, and shows up.

We'll also explore why love is not one-size-fits-all.Loving everyone does not mean giving everyone the same relationship, intimacy,access, or trust. Biblical love can include wisdom and healthy boundaries whilestill reflecting the character of Christ.

Today's Draw leaves us with a powerful question:

What does my love look like when nobody is watching?

Because love does not have to be spectacular to besignificant.

The greatest love is not merely the love we feel, but thelove we faithfully choose to show.

Join Pamela at The Woman at the Well as we learn tostop merely collecting symbols of love and begin building a life of love.

One Bible. One Kingdom. One King.

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Hatred Is a Luxury I Cannot Afford

What happens when someone wounds us, misunderstands us,speaks against us—or even chooses to treat us as an enemy?

We may not be able to control another person's behavior, butwe can guard what happens within our own hearts.

In today's Drawing from the Deep Well, Pamelaexplores one of Jesus' most challenging commands: love your enemies.Biblical love does not require us to excuse sin, tolerate abuse, abandondiscernment, or call wrong right. Sometimes love requires truth, boundaries,distance, or walking away.

But someone else's wrongdoing does not give us permission tosurrender our hearts to hatred.

Scripture tells us that God is love and that “Welove Him because He first loved us” (1 John 4:19 NKJV). Our ability to lovedoes not ultimately depend upon how lovable another person is—it flows from theGod who first loved us.

Today's Kingdom Truth:

I refuse to allow someone else's hatred to determine thecondition of my heart. I have been loved by God; therefore, I am free to love.

Join Pamela at The Woman at the Well as we draw fromGenesis 1:27, Matthew 5:44, Luke 23:34, Romans 5:5–8, Romans 12:21, and 1 John4 to discover why hatred simply costs too much.

One Bible. One Kingdom. One King.

Top of Form

Bottom of Form

Nobody wakes up hoping someone will offer them a healthydose of criticism. Yet sometimes the words we least want to hear are the verywords we need.

In today's Drawing from the Deep Well, Pamelaexplores Proverbs 27:6—“Faithful are the wounds of a friend”—and theimportant difference between loving correction and self-righteouscondemnation.

Biblical correction isn't about proving we're right orestablishing superiority. When guided by the Holy Spirit, it seeks restoration.It is soft toward the person while remaining firm about the truth.

And receiving correction requires something equallyimportant: humility.

Before rejecting an uncomfortable word, perhaps we shouldask:

Lord, is there something You want me to learn here?

We'll also examine the difference between conviction andcondemnation, why “iron sharpening iron” sometimes involves friction, and howpride can turn disagreement into a battle we were never called to fight.

Today's Draw challenges us from both directions:

When I correct someone, am I trying to help—or am Itrying to win?

And when correction comes to me:

Is there truth here that God wants me to receive?

Join Pamela at The Woman at the Well as we learn tospeak truth in love, receive truth with humility, extend grace when necessary,and become increasingly like Jesus.

Same truth. Entirely different heart.

One Bible. One Kingdom. One King.

Nobody wakes up hoping someone will offer them a healthydose of criticism. Yet sometimes the words we least want to hear are the verywords we need.

In today's Drawing from the Deep Well, Pamelaexplores Proverbs 27:6—“Faithful are the wounds of a friend”—and theimportant difference between loving correction and self-righteouscondemnation.

Biblical correction isn't about proving we're right orestablishing superiority. When guided by the Holy Spirit, it seeks restoration.It is soft toward the person while remaining firm about the truth.

And receiving correction requires something equallyimportant: humility.

Before rejecting an uncomfortable word, perhaps we shouldask:

Lord, is there something You want me to learn here?

We'll also examine the difference between conviction andcondemnation, why “iron sharpening iron” sometimes involves friction, and howpride can turn disagreement into a battle we were never called to fight.

Today's Draw challenges us from both directions:

When I correct someone, am I trying to help—or am Itrying to win?

And when correction comes to me:

Is there truth here that God wants me to receive?

Join Pamela at The Woman at the Well as we learn tospeak truth in love, receive truth with humility, extend grace when necessary,and become increasingly like Jesus.

Same truth. Entirely different heart.

One Bible. One Kingdom. One King.

www.thewomanatwell.com

The Full Truth of Christ

From the blood on the doorposts in Egypt to the cross atCalvary, Scripture reveals one magnificent story of redemption.

In today's Drawing from the Deep Well, Pamela followsthe biblical thread of the lamb, the blood, deliverance, covenant,sacrifice, and redemption—and discovers how each ultimately points ustoward Jesus Christ.

The blood of Jesus is not a mystical formula or a collectionof words used to manipulate circumstances. Its power rests in the Person whoshed it and in the finished work He accomplished through His death andresurrection.

At Passover, Israel's deliverance wasn't based upon thepeople's perfection. They trusted what God had said and responded in obedientfaith. Centuries later, John the Baptist would identify the One to whom thePassover lamb had been pointing:

“Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of theworld!”
— John 1:29 NKJV

Jesus offered Himself once for all. Salvation isn'tsomething we earn by becoming good enough; it is received through faith inChrist and His finished work.

And when we receive Him, something extraordinary begins:

Eternal life begins now.

Join Pamela at The Woman at the Well as we travelfrom Egypt to Calvary and discover why understanding the whole counsel ofScripture helps us recognize the beautiful thread of redemption running frombeginning to end.

The lamb. The blood. Deliverance. Covenant. Sacrifice.Redemption. And eventually—Jesus.

One Bible. One Kingdom. One King.

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Who’s Your Best Friend?

Who really knows you?

We can be surrounded by people, have countlessacquaintances, and still discover that very few people know our deepest hopes,struggles, fears, and desires. True friendship goes deeper than simply beingknown by many.

In today's Drawing from the Deep Well, Pamelaexplores Proverbs 18:24 and the difference between acquaintanceship and genuinefriendship. Healthy relationships require time, honesty, commitment, listening,encouragement—and sometimes loving correction.

But today's Draw ultimately leads us to an even deeperquestion:

Am I cultivating my friendship with Jesus?

Jesus knows what others cannot see. He knows our heartscompletely. And as we spend time in His Word, speak with Him through prayer,learn His character, obey His teaching, and recognize His faithfulness,something beautiful begins to happen:

We stop merely knowing about Jesus.
We begin knowing Him.

Join Pamela at The Woman at the Well as we considerwhat it means to cultivate our earthly friendships while growing in the mostimportant relationship of all—the one we have with Jesus Christ.

Today's Draw:

Am I cultivating my friendship with Jesus?

One Bible. One Kingdom. One King.

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Betrayal: The Audacious Juggernaut | Ephesians 4:32

Betrayal can crash into our lives with enough force to makeus question what we believed, whom we trusted, and sometimes even ourselves.

But what someone did to us does not have to determine whowe become.

In today’s Daily Draw, we explore what biblicalforgiveness looks like after betrayal—and what it does not require.

Forgiveness does not mean denying deception, abandoningnecessary boundaries, immediately restoring trust, or pretending the woundnever happened.

It means refusing to allow betrayal to have the final wordover the condition of our hearts.

We can maintain boundaries and remain tenderhearted.
We can recognize deception without becoming cynical.
We can acknowledge an offense without building our identity around it.
We can forgive without pretending nothing happened.

And ultimately, we can entrust vengeance to God whilepraying that even those who have wounded us encounter Jesus Christ.

If betrayal has made it difficult for you to trustanyone—even God—today’s Draw also introduces you to the One whose characternever changes: Jesus Christ.

This isn’t an invitation to religion.

It’s an invitation to know Jesus.

Betrayal may have been part of your story.

But it does not get to write the ending.

Because revenge isn’t the victory.

Redemption is.

One day. One truth. One step closer to Jesus.

Drawing from the Deep Well with Pamela Pastor | The Womanat the Well

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Hello friends,

How do we share Jesus with someone without making theconversation feel forced?

Maybe you’re breaking bread with someone who considersthemselves “spiritual.” You want them to know Christ—but you don’t want topressure them.

There is another way.

In today’s Daily Draw, we consider four simpletruths:

We plant—God harvests.
We don’t judge—we point.
We look within first.
We live the message.

Our actions cannot earn salvation. Jesus has already paidthat price. But our actions can reveal what our faith is producing.

Good works are not the foundation of salvation.

They are fruit produced by new life in Christ.

And if you consider yourself spiritual, religious, or even agood person but aren’t certain you personally know Jesus, today’s Draw includesa simple invitation to receive His free gift of salvation.

Because Christianity isn’t ultimately about becoming morereligious.

It’s about knowing Jesus.

We plant. We love. We live what we profess. We point toChrist.

And the Holy Spirit does what only He can do.

One day. One truth. One step closer to Jesus.

Drawing from the Deep Well with Pamela Pastor | The Womanat the Well

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