The Water from Rock Podcast

Today, I'm looking at Psalm 136, and I'm going to read the first few verses, and I think that'll give you a feel of what the psalm is about. Beginning in verse one. Oh, give thanks. You can feel the intensity, Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good for His steadfast love endures forever. Oh, give thanks to the God of gods, for His steadfast love endures forever. Oh, give thanks to the lord of lords, for His steadfast love endures forever. Who alone does great wonders for His steadfast love endures forever. How... You probably know what the next line is going to be, don't you?

Download a transcript for the March 7, 2023 Selah episode

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Now we know that God works all things together for good, for those who love him, we know that. But do you ever wonder if the troubles you're going through right now? If God is really working them for good. How about the pain, the disappointment, the failure, is God really doing something with that? I wanna think about this for a few moments as I tell a quick Bible story and then tie that story with another scripture...

Download a transcript for the March 4, 2023 Selah episode

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Are you ever fearful about what you're reading in the news? Fearful about what you see happening in the world? I mean, there's inflation, there's lawlessness, war in the Ukraine, pandemic, and it seems that more and more people are calling evil good and calling good evil. Things seem kind of upside down right now, don't they? Are you fearful? Fear is a natural reaction to things that seem to threaten our safety, things have seemed to threaten our sense of well-being and trying to ignore our fear. Pretending that we're not afraid, well, that actually makes fear worse...

Download a transcript for the March 2, 2023 Selah episode

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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 like 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 February 28, 2023 Selah episode

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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. David is a man who can rise to great heights and he can sink to great lows. I like to study David, because Scripture twice says of David that he is a man after God's own heart. Now, we've looked at David before in trouble, but it's gonna take a man David size to get himself into the mess we find Him in today.

Download a transcript for the February 25, 2023 Selah episode

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I have a friend that whenever I see him and ask him how he's doing. He always says, I'm blessed. I like that because it's a good reminder for me. That as followers of Jesus, that we are blessed. I wanna look at scripture for a few moments to get an inkling of just how blessed you and I are. I'm looking at Ephesians Chapter 1:3, and this is one of my favorite verses in the Bible, as there was so much here. 

Download a transcript for the February 23, 2023 Selah episode

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How about let's take a break today, I should take a little breather, a pause from the news, from the over-stimulation, that feeling of having too much to do, and let's reboot. Let's just turn everything off for a bit, let's put on hold what needs to be done so that we can spend time with our heavenly Father.

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Do you ever feel like you're running on empty? I don't mean your car, but in your life. Are there times when you feel like you're running on empty, when you don't know where you're gonna get the power to handle the problems that you're facing? Where you're gonna get the power to make the most of opportunity? Where do we get the power not just to keep going, but to thrive? That is a question that I've often had to deal with in my life in my ministry. Today, I've turned to a scripture that it really helps me when I'm looking for power to keep going and to thrive.

Download a transcript for the February 18, 2023 Selah episode
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The only constant in life is change. So said the Greek philosopher, Heraclitus, 2500 years ago. The only constant in life is change, and there sure has been a lot of change since then. As you and I, we face changes every day, whether it is a simple change in the weather, change in our schedule or expected change of seasons, and it seems like though we are living in a time of a lot of change and we wonder how to deal with it. This past week, I was encouraged...

Download a transcript for the February 16, 2023 Selah episode
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I will always be grateful to my mom for first teaching me about the Psalms when I was a boy. When my mom told me that I could find a Psalm for every feeling I had, she said that there's a psalm for just about every life situation, and you know... My mom was right.

Download a transcript for the February 14, 2023 Selah episode

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