The Water from Rock Podcast

FULFILLING GOD’S PURPOSE FOR YOUR LIFE | Assorted Scriptures

Some time ago, I was browsing in an antique store and a frankly, I was surprised, and some of the things they were calling antiques that I had actually gone up with, but oh well. I would find something that I did not know what it was, and I would ask the shop owner what was this thing for? Or what was its purpose? Because you know, there was something about being human that we want to know purpose, we want to know what something is for...

Download a transcript for the July 6, 2023 Selah episode

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Father’s Compassionate Care | Psalm 103:13-14

Hey, things are really kind of crazy right now aren't they? And at a time when it feels like so many things are up for grabs, I want to look today at the one constant in this topsy turby world, the one thing that you and I that we can stake our lives on, and that is the character of our heavily, father. That God is unchanging. That God is unwavering. That you can count on God always being there for you.

Download a transcript for the July 4, 2023 Selah episode

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God’s Power Released in Weakness | 2 Corinthians 4:7-10

Hey, I wish I could sit down with you and talk with you who are listening and get to know you. Because I know you're listening today, not because I'm anyone famous, well-known, I'm not, but I know you're listening. Because you love Jesus. And here's this guy who loves Jesus too, and he likes to talk about Jesus, you and I, we had this bond between us, and that's why I wanna talk with you today about something that is so important, and that is how the power of Jesus can be released through you and me into a world that frankly is very much needing to see the power of Jesus.

Download a transcript for the July 1, 2023 Selah episode

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LIGHT FOR DARK TIMES | Isaiah 43:1-3

Isn't it fascinating how a God made the human eye so that when we enter darkness the eye dilates the eye gets bigger to let in more light? Now, as I look at scripture, I see something similar happening that when God's people enter a dark time. The eyes of the heart dilate, they get bigger to let in more light. Much of the Bible was written by someone going through a dark time, to someone going through a dark time, such as the passage that I feel compelled to turn to the day.

Download a transcript for the June 29, 2023 Selah episode

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When Foundations Are Destroyed | Psalm 11

Do you ever read the Bible and you feel like you're reading today's headlines? Well, that's what I'm feeling today, as I read Psalm 11 where I see frightening things going on in the country, as it says the good people are being targeted and the foundations are being destroyed.

Download a transcript for the June 27, 2023 Selah episode

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Seeing Yourself as God Sees You | Judges 6:12

Oh, for the gift to see ourselves as others see us. Scottish poet Robert Burns long for that gift, but I see in God's word an even greater gift and that is the gift to see ourselves as God sees us. It could be huge for us. Then we're going to look at this today in the Old Testament Book of Judges, Chapter 6. Here is the back story...

Download a transcript for the June 24, 2023 Selah episode

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Strengthening Yourself in the Lord | 1 Samuel 30:6

I find myself in difficult times coming back again and again to stories about David and two psalms of David, we know more about David and the inner life, the inner workings of David, than any other person in scripture and that's why David makes for such wonderful case studies, for just about any life situation.

Download a transcript for the June 22, 2023 Selah episode

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DELIGHT AND DESIRE | Psalm 37:4

Delight and desire. That's right, I wanna talk with you for a few moments about delight and desire. Something we don't talk much about in sermons and in Christian circles, but something we really should talk about, and that is how important it is for our lives to be marked by delight and desire. That is to have the fire, the passion of delight and desire in us.

Download a transcript for the June 20, 2023 Selah episode

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WHEN FEELING AT THE END OF YOUR ROPE | 2 Corinthians 1:8-9

I'm looking at an email here from a dear friend who tells me that she's in a dark place that she's struggling with depression. Well, I know something about depression. I remember a time when the biggest victory of my day was just getting out of bed in the morning. And, and so I wanna share with you a passage of scripture that's been a real lifeline for me and, and I hope that it might encourage you today if you're in some kind of darkness and that it might also help you as you seek to encourage others.

 

Download a transcript for the June 17, 2023 Selah episode

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GRACE AND PEACE FOR YOU | 2 Peter 1:2

I have something very wonderful for you today, and it's all wrapped up in a little verse of scripture, 2 Peter 1:2. Here it is "May grace and peace, be yours in abundance in the knowledge of God and of our Lord, Jesus Christ, grace and peace." Well, you probably recognize that as a usual greeting in the New Testament, Grace and peace to you. In fact, 18 times we hear this greeting or a variation of it. Paul begins...

Download a transcript for the June 15, 2023 Selah episode

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