Weekly teaching and devotionals from Water from Rock Ministries in Phoenix, Arizona
Episodes
Saturday May 07, 2022
Saturday May 07, 2022
Now, there was a story going around about Satan having a big yard sale and Satan is selling office tools, he's selling off pride, envy, jealousy, hatred, things like that, and demons are showing up to buy... I wanna buy this tool, I wanna buy that one, but when the demon ask about a tool that's lying all by itself, over in a corner, Satan says No, no, no, no, keep your hands off of that one, not that one, that tool is not for sale. Why that tool has always been my best tool for attacking people, it's discouragement, discouragement works for me when all my other tools don't, Satan says... And he says, The good thing about discouragement is that people don't think of discouragement as coming from me. Defensible story? Well, yes, but not so fencible. God's people sometimes do struggle with discouragement in following Jesus... Well, have a scripture for you today that helps me when I am discouraged in following Jesus.
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Thursday May 05, 2022
Thursday May 05, 2022
I wonder if I've seen your name in the headlines. You haven't seen mine. But I say this because I have read enough headlines and I have read enough Bible to know that most names that make headlines, whether or not all that important... And names that are important, whether you say, don't make headlines. There were names, the world knows, and names God knows. I'm gonna look at this today in the Book of Exodus, in the Hebrew Bible, the name for this book that we call Exodus in a Hebrew Bible, it is called names.
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Tuesday May 03, 2022
Tuesday May 03, 2022
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 not just an assumption in our heads but also an awareness in our hearts.
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Saturday Apr 30, 2022
Saturday Apr 30, 2022
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.
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Thursday Apr 28, 2022
Thursday Apr 28, 2022
Do you have a favorite Bible verse? I know that might be like asking you if you have a favorite child or grandchild you love them all. But is there a verse that you come back to again and again? The verse that picks you up when you have fallen. A verse like the North star when you’ve lost your way. The verse I want to share with you today. I am sharing for a very personal reason. It is the verse I clung to years ago when my young wife died from cancer. It is a verse that helped me make sense of suddenly being a single dad with two little boys trying to pastor a church. And well, it helped me then, and it helps me now to live life with joy.
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Tuesday Apr 26, 2022
Tuesday Apr 26, 2022
Oh, for the gift to see ourselves as others see us. Scottish poet Robert Burns longs 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.
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Saturday Apr 23, 2022
Saturday Apr 23, 2022
I have a growing I don't understand file. Things that I've learned to, well, to leave with God as I've come to realize that God is working on a much higher level than I am and there are questions that I would actually need the mind of God to understand the answer. I learned about having an I don't understand file from the psalmist, David, in Psalm 131; it has been said of the Psalm that it is one of the shortest psalms to read but one of the longest to learn, and it is a short Psalm, it is a mere 33 words in the original Hebrew, but it is so big in its impact.
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Thursday Apr 21, 2022
Thursday Apr 21, 2022
The Lord be with you. And Happy Easter. That's right, Happy Easter. We are Easter people as Easter... Well, it's far too grand to rush past it, which takes me to a Bible verse. It is about God's Easter power alive in you and me as we follow after Jesus. The verse I have in mind is in the Apostle Paul's letter to the Roman Christians.
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Tuesday Apr 19, 2022
Tuesday Apr 19, 2022
It was sometime between midnight in the morning of December 4, 1875, that the German steamship Doeclan ran aground off the English coast, and the steamship and medial began taking on water, and 78 lives were lost. Among them were five Franciscan nuns who had been forced out of Germany. Now, in wake of that tragedy, English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote a poem in which he celebrated the lives of those five Franciscans that he celebrated Christ's victory over death. Now, there was a line in the poem that is... Well, it's actually a prayer in which he asked, Let Christ Easter in us, and today, as you and I, as we face pandemic, war, upheaval, tragedy, so we would pray, let Christ Easter in us. That is let the meaning of Easter. The good news of Easter, let it fill us and permeate every fiber of our being.
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Saturday Apr 16, 2022
Saturday Apr 16, 2022
Well, it's springtime, and where I live, we have that wonderful fragrance of 0range blossoms, there's Jasmine budding, and there are the dazzling yellow blooms of paloverde trees. It's just really beautiful. And for Christians, Easter is well; it's the high point of the year. And Easter is more than a spring celebration; Easter is more than sap rising in the trees. Easter is a celebration that our Lord Jesus Christ lives and that by His death, He defeats death, and Jesus opens the Kingdom of Heaven to all believers.
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