This document summarizes a passage from the Bible about a woman from Samaria who encounters Jesus. It discusses how we often crave belongingness, love, and truth. We desire acceptance from others and affection, but sometimes confuse emotional hunger for love. True love is defined through Christ, not worldly definitions. The Samaritan woman was seeking truth to validate her existence. Finally, it notes that with Christ, our cravings no longer control us because we find fulfillment through him.
2. •CRAVE stresses the force
of physical appetite or
emotional need. DESIRE,
WISH, WANT, CRAVE,
COVET mean to have a
longing for..
3. •Ano bang Cravings mo sa mga
pagkakataong ito?
•Ano ang LF mo ngayun?
•Some of us siguro was craving for
food, to have handsome bf and
beautiful Gf, while some was
craving for cash😆 or kay Crush,
4. •What is the answer for us to
stop craving for something?
•Kaylan ba mahihinto ang
paghahanap natin ng mga
bagay na kahit kaylan man ay
hindi naman natin
5. •Truth: "Hindi lahat ng
good for the eyes, good for
the soul" at "Hindi lahat ng
cravings mo ay maganda
ang dulot sa iyong spiritual
na pamumuhay"
6. •Sa pamamagitan ng babaeng
Samaritana makikita natin
dito kung paano niya
napigilan ang paghahanap o
pagmimithi ng mga bagay na
hindi nya maranasan sa
7. •I. We Crave for
Belongingness (vv. 1-15)
•(Nagmimithi tayo ng
pakikipanayam)
•A. Attention
8. •Belongingness is the human
emotional need to be an
accepted member of a group.
Whether it is family, friends,
co-workers, a religion, or
something else, some people
9. •Si Hesus ay nakikipag-usap sa isang
babaeng Samaritana na kung saan ito
ay nag iigib ng tubig ng katanghaliang
tapat. Bakit sya nag iigib ng tanghaling
tapat? Hindi sila nakikihalubilo sa mga
Judio dahil sa sila ay mababang uri ng
tao o lahi sa kanilang panahon. They
are out of place in the society and they
are half breed people who don't belong
11. •"If you feel that you
don't belong to anyone
or anything in this
world, you have a place
in God". Yes, you belong
12. •II. We Crave for Love
(vv. 16-19)
•(Nagmimithi ng pag-
ibig)
•A. Affection
13. •Most of us tend to confuse
our need for love with
emotional hunger. But this
hunger is not a need for love.
Love is something we share
with others driven by our
14. •However, when you seek to love to
fulfill yourself, then it is simply a
strong emotional need that makes
you engage in desperate behaviors
and actions to fill your inner void.
This hunger for love is a result of
deprivation, abandonment,
unhealthy attachment patterns,
15. •Psychologist and author Robert W.
Firestone, Ph.D., explains “Hunger
is a powerful emotion, which is
both exploitive and destructive to
others when it is acted out. People
identify this feeling with love and
mistakenly associate these longings
with genuine affection.”
16. •The seven characteristics of people
who crave love
•1. Obsession with affection
•2. They try to control people
•3. They’re demanding
•4. They beg for affection
•5. They make too many sacrifices
18. •"The real meaning of
love is when we
define it through
Christ and not our
worldly definition of
19. •III. We Crave for Truth (vv.
20-26)
•(Nagmimithi ng
katotohanan)
•A. Freedom
21. •The Samaritan Woman is searching and
seeking for the truth to validate her
existence in this world. As long as she
doesn't find the truth para sa kanya
hindi pa din sya malayo mula sa mga
bagay na kumukulong sa kanya.
•Truth was one of the people's desires
and looking for but also what people
fear the most.
22. •Even the Teachers of the law
were searching for it, even
great people with great
positions and ambitions in
history want to know it. But
when we discover the truth
23. John 8:31-32
•31 To the Jews who had believed him,
Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching,
you are really my disciples. 32 Then you
will know the truth, and the truth will
set you free.”
•John 14:6-7
•6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the
24. •Conclusion:
•Outside Christ our cravings can lead
us to commit sin and do something
bad. But if Christ is in our lives our
cravings will no longer slave us
because we already find fulfilment
in all these things through Him.