Wellspring of Life Church

Wrestling With God Genesis 32

Jacob's wrestling with God in Genesis 32 is similar to how we wrestle against God when He is in the process of refining us. 

By Meagan Manzanares

The Promise of His Presence Exodus 33

This message speaks to us of the importance of responding correctly to discouragement. We like Moses may feel the heavy load of discouragement at times in our lives. Discouragement is not a sin. However, responding to it incorrectly can lead to sin. Dave shares three things we can do to help us respond correctly to discouragement. Implementing them...will cause us to stay focused, and keep moving us in the right direction. 

By Dave Bartlett

Choose This Day Who You Will Serve Exodus 32:15-35

In this portion of Exodus 32 we see the Children of Israel make a very bad choice! This chapter provides a powerful message to us, to not build an imaginary god based on cultural expectations. It encourages us to seek the One True God as revealed to us in creation, in Scripture, and in His Son. The One who came to earth and who is coming back for a church committed to Him and Him alone.

By Dave Bartlett

The High Price of Substitution - Exodus 32:1-14

The Israelite's make their own creation of God in this chapter. Moses has not yet returned from meeting with God on Mt. Sinai. The people have become impatient, which has led them to make a wrong assumption, (Moses is not coming back) which has caused them to go in a wrong direction, (building a golden calf) which leads them into deep darkness (worshiping a god of their own making) which leads to disaster. However, because Moses interceded on their behalf... for the time being anyway, God relented of bringing the disaster He had spoken of on His people.  We can be just like the children of Israel...impatient, stiff-necked and we can allow our culture instead of God's Word to influence our decisions which do not lead to life.

By Dave Bartlett

A Safe Place - Micah 5:4-5

We live in a world that is unsafe which can create within us a sense of fear. Our future can seem uncertain. But Jesus came to be our "Safe Place". When we give Him our all, we will experience His peace and will live confident, knowing He holds our future and He has us.

By Dave Bartlett

Reaching The College Campus

It's often thought that in order to reach people from different backgrounds and beliefs we must know everything there is to know about these ideas. However, the simple message of repentance and faith in Christ remains just as powerful today for reaching this generation.

By Brent Keizer

The Golden Altar of Incense Exodus 30:1-10

Th Golden Altar of Incense represents the Lord in His ministry as our Great High Priest. He hears the prayers of His people and ever lives to make intercession on their behalf before the throne of His Father.  

By Dave Bartlett

Consecrated To Serve Exodus 29

We as followers of Jesus are  all, "consecrated-set apart" to serve.  God has chosen us and will provide all that we need to live out our purpose for His kingdom. We are to go about learning and doing the, "good and perfect will of God."  We do that by doing what Jesus told His diciples in... Matthew 28:19-20 "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,  teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age."  

May we be ever faithful to share Jesus with a world that desparately needs to know Him.

By Dave Bartlett

God's Amazing Details Exodus 26

Exodus 26 shows us how God is in the details. We see the significance and meaning of every detail regarding the Tabernacle and how those details impact our lives today...specifically the Veil that hung between the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies. When Jesus breathed His last breath on the Cross, the Veil in the temple was torn in half. It was if God was saying, "Open House!" "Enter In!",  "There is no longer a barrier between you and Me, you can come boldy to My throne of grace, recieve mercy and have relationship with Me...I am your High Priest."

By Dave Bartlett

The Greatest Building Program Ever - Exodus 25

In this chapter God gives Moses the heavenly pattern for the Tabernacle,where His presence will dwell amongst His people.God lays out very specific details as to how His Tabernacle will be built, the materials and what the required furnishings must be.  The design and the furnishings are an amazing and glorious picture that point to Jesus Christ!

Hebrews 9:11-12,23-26
¹¹ But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation. ¹² Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.

²³ Therefore it was necessary that the copies of the things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. ²⁴ For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us; ²⁵ not that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood of another-- ²⁶ He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.

By Dave Bartlett