April 11, 2024

Last weekend was our final Saturday night service at Freedom Place. This coming weekend we will not be meeting. Pray on Saturday as people gather in all of the state capitols to intercede for our states and our nation. On April 21st, Wellspring will begin at our new time and new location: 10am Sunday at 3811 Main St, Rowlett, TX 75088. This first service is taking place at the beginning of Passover and on Wellspring’s 7th Anniversary. Pretty exciting!

Seven months ago, we started the Hebrew year 5784 the Year of the Door, and the Lord gave us this word.

“Prepare yourself and pay attention. I am opening a door for the humble in order to lift you up, but you must leave behind the ways of the world. No intermixture will be permitted. Cut off the worthless counselor and leave the garbage at the door. On the other side are things never discovered or heard of before, things beyond your ability to imagine —the many things I have in store for My children.”
5784 Year of the Door [20230916]

We are in the year of the door. What is a door? It’s a place of transition. As Wellspring transitions our location and time, I want to encourage you to seek Holy Spirit to reveal what you must leave behind. Is there anything that you can’t bring through the door? The next few days need to be a time of evaluation, repentance, forgiveness, and release. We have to leave some things in order to advance and grow. Let’s pay attention to Yahweh Rapha and allow Him to work His healing and freedom in and through us.

Sako and I have learned a very important lesson in our nearly 25 years of marriage and ministry. And we learned it through many challenges and by getting it wrong before we got it right. And we’re still growing just like all of you.

How you leave is how you start.
Always leave with the blessing.

There were times when we had to wrestle our own desires and persevere through incredibly challenging situations. Remember when Jacob wrestled with the Angel of the Lord? He refused to let go until he was blessed. This wrestling changed his life dramatically. It changed the way he walked, and God changed his name from Jacob to Israel, from “usurper” to “one who struggles with God”. Jacob who became Israel famously said, “I have seen God face to face and I was spared.” The wrestling for the blessing is an invitation to intimacy and identity.

How you leave is how you start. This is why we committed to freedom ministry before we ever started Wellspring. We wanted to make sure we started free, and we’re also all committed to pursuing and growing in freedom so that we can be blessed and be a blessing. In each transition, we bless both sides of the door, the coming in and the going out.

“Do not give place to the devil.”
Ephesians 4:27 MEV

The devil hates a good transition, and he intentionally looks for opportunities to sabotage and set traps in doorways. Paul says in Ephesians 4:27, “Do not give place to the devil.” Some translations say don’t give opportunity to the devil, but that word “place” literally means region or seat. A city’s gate is a place of authority, and in ancient times rulers would sit in the gate. They had the authority to decide what comes in and goes out of a region. Don’t give the devil a seat at your door. Keep him out, and be committed to be blessed and be a blessing on both sides of the door.

“Blessed will you be when you come in and blessed will you be when you go out.”
Deuteronomy 28:6 LEB

We were designed by God to be blessed and to be a blessing. If we’ll walk in obedient intimacy with Him and refuse to allow the devil to have any space, we’ll be blessed through every transition. And we will be a blessing.

“And into whatever town or village you enter, inquire who in it is worthy, and stay there until you depart. And when you enter into the house, greet it. And if the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it, but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you.”
Matthew 10:11-13 LEB

Peace in Hebrew is what? Shalom —nothing missing, nothing lacking, whole, and complete. Shalom is the heavenly condition of being blessed. Jesus commands us to leave the blessing, and then He gives a condition: “if the house is worthy”. This where we tread graciously in the Spirit. We will be accountable, be careful. If we’re not leaving the blessing, we’re leaving judgement. And we will be judged according to how we have judged. Jesus also taught His disciples to bless those who curse them. Why? Because if we’re in the Lord’s blessing, there is no place for a curse to land. Proverbs 26:2 [NLT] says, “Like a fluttering sparrow or a darting swallow, an undeserved curse will not land on its intended victim.”

Let’s choose together to be blessed and to be a blessing.

Seeking His face!
Matt

Matt Neese
Wellspring.Live

APril Schedule

Apr 11, 6-8:30pm – House Prayer
Apr 13 – Prayer at the Capitol. No services.
Apr 18, 6-8:30pm – House Prayer
Apr 21, 10-11:30am– First Wellspring Live Sunday Service at 3811 Main St, Rowlett, TX 75088.
Apr 25, 6-8:30pm – House Prayer
Apr 21, 10-11:30am– Wellspring Live