Timberline Windsor | Trade the Well For the Spring | Blake Barnes

The message “Trade the Well for the Spring” is about learning to stop relying on temporary things to make us feel spiritually full and instead relying on the Holy Spirit, who provides a constant source of life within us. Using Jesus’ conversation with the Samaritan woman in John 4, the message explains that she kept returning to the “well” looking for fulfillment, but Jesus offered her something completely different—a “spring of living water.” The pastor connects this to how we can repeatedly seek temporary “refills” through achievement, entertainment, other people, or even constantly trying to fix our sins and shame. Instead, we can experience God throughout everyday life, including difficult or chaotic seasons, rather than only through specific spiritual routines like church or worship. Finally, the message says that the Spirit’s life should overflow into other people—we aren’t meant to be people who get spiritually filled on Sunday and slowly empty during the week, but people who carry God’s presence into our workplaces, families, friendships, neighborhoods, and everyday interactions.