WHAT'S IN A NAME
We had been praying about a name for our new church for months. We all
felt it should have something to do with a spring, which described
something life-giving and refreshing. I also felt that part of our
mission was to lead people back to The Source. Once, while
visiting a house that had a spring in its basement, I noted that
there was so much water flowing from the spring in their basement,
that they had to find ways to manage the overflow while many of the
other houses nearby ran out of water each summer.
I also noted that the area
was historically known for its numerous springs. Seneca Lake is
spring-fed. We long to see in the spirit what has been true
in the natural. During a personal retreat, I began to feel the Lord
stirring me to build this new work and happened to look down at an
opened Bible and saw the word
wellspring. My spirit leapt within me and I knew then that this was
to be the name of our new church: WellSpring Fellowship–
a Life-Giving Church.
The word wellspring is Maqowr (Heb 04726) which means spring,
fountain, wellspring, a source of life, joy, or purification.
Psalm 85:11 “Truth shall
spring out of the earth, and righteousness shall look down from
heaven.”
Proverbs 4:23 “Above all else,
guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.” (NIV)
Proverbs 16:22 “Understanding
is a wellspring of life to him who has it. But the correction of
fools is folly.”
Proverbs 18:4 “The words of a
man's mouth are deep waters; the wellspring of wisdom is a flowing
brook.”
Isaiah 43:19 “Behold, I will
do a new thing, now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? I
will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.”
Isaiah 58:11 “The Lord will guide you continually, and satisfy your
soul in drought, and strengthen your bones; You shall be like a
watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters do not
fail.”
Jeremiah 2:13 “For My people have committed two evils: They have
forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, and hewn themselves
cisterns--broken cisterns that can hold no water.”
John 7:38 “He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of
his heart will flow rivers of living water."
