The Water from Rock Podcast

PRACTICING GOD’S PRESENCE | Psalm 16:8

Is there a time in your life when God's presence has been especially real to you? A time when you could just feel God right there with you? That's a precious time when God's presence is more than just an assumption in our heads, but an awareness in our heart. There came a time in my walk with God, when I longed to know I had to know God with me, in the way I'd been taught to sing as a boy about how God walks with me and he talks with me and he tells me I am his own. I needed that to be more than just a song I needed to know that it was real for my life. It was through a Bible verse that David taught me something about the daily practice of the presence of God who was always present to us...

Download a transcript for the February 11, 2023 Selah episode

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SEEING YOURSELF AS GOD SEES YOU | Judges 6

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, is here was the back story. As the nation of Israel is on lockdown, this is a low point in Israel's history. Judge 6 opens by saying that the Israelites did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the people have been brought to their knees by the Midianites.

Download a transcript for the February 09, 2023 Selah episode

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WHEN YOU NEED TO DECIDE | Proverbs 3:5-6

Oh decisions, decisions. Life seems filled with decisions, doesn't it? Should I quit this job? Where should we live? Should we send the kids back to school? Should we down scale? Where does God want me to serve Him? Well, one might wish for the wisdom of Solomon...

Download a transcript for the February 07, 2023 Selah episode

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OUT OF DARKNESS INTO LIGHT | Psalm 40

Well, I am back in the book of Psalms today, needing to be in the book of Psalms today. As I started out the day feeling confused, upset by the news, by what's going on in the world, and 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. As the Psalms have helped me so much through the years. And that's why I've come today to my old friend, the Book of Psalms. I don't have one particular psalm to share with you today so much as I have a life lesson learned from the book of Psalms...

Download a transcript for the February 4, 2023 Selah episode

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BACKSTORY TO TODAY’S NEWS | Ephesians 6:12

Wow, have you seen the news today? Well, maybe you don't wanna go there, but these are troubling times, aren't they? A violence, lawlessness, civil disorder, attacks on just good old-fashioned morality, and it feels like politics is open warfare. So what is a follower of Jesus to do? Well, I have something from God's Word for us today. And with that, I want to take a look at what is going on behind the news.

Download a transcript for the February 02, 2023 Selah episode

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FACING THE IMPOSSIBLE | Zechariah 4:6

I have in mind, any of you who feel like you're facing an impossible task. You know that God has called you to something. But you're feeling that maybe you don't have the strength, the ability, the smarts to get it done. Well, I know pastors who are feeling they're facing an impossible task with what the pandemic seems to be doing to churches, there are parents of school-aged children feeling that today, caregivers of loved ones feeling that...

Download a transcript for the January 31, 2023 Selah episode

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GOD AT WORK IN YOU | Philippians 2:13

Do you ever have those moments? Well, when you just know you need to forgive someone, but you can't find it in you to forget, or you have a moment to you since God calling you to do something and you don't wanna do it, or you're wanting to obey God, but you don't know if you can... Well, if you ever have moments like that, I've got good news for you. It's a scripture verse that many have found helpful in moments like that.

Download a transcript for the January 28, 2023 Selah episode

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WAITING FOR GOD | Psalm 40

Have you noticed that God's timing often does not coincide with our timing, so that we often find ourselves waiting? Waiting for God, but you know what God does in you and me as we wait is as important as what we're waiting for. We see that today in the life of David, as David is yet again, waiting for God...

Download a transcript for the January 26, 2023 Selah episode

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YOUR ULTIMATE FREEDOM | Philippians 4:8

I remember as a boy watching a parade and seeing horses wearing with what looked to me like blind folds, and I asked my dad why they were wearing pieces of cloth around their eye. And my dad who had been raised on a farm, who had worked with horses my dad explained that sometimes horses needed to wear what was called blinders to keep their eyes focused on what was straight ahead rather than being distracted by what was going on around them or behind them. My dad said that without the blinders, horses that were working or racing could easily startle in fear and run off, and so you know, with all that's going on in our country today...

Download a transcript for the January 24, 2023 Selah episode

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LIVING IN GOD’S PROMISED BLESSING | Numbers 6:22-26; Ephesians 1:3

Do you ever wonder why I begin every one of these conversations with the Lord be with you? Well, I do it because that is the Bible's way of blessing someone, I don't say those words as I wish as a prayer, but I say the words as a blessing, a declaration of God's purpose, God's desire to bless you. The Lord be with you was how believers did it in ancient Israel as they would bless one another. It would go like this one person would say The Lord be with you, and the other would respond the Lord bless you. Check it out in the Book of Ruth...

Download a transcript for the January 21, 2023 Selah episode

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