The Water from Rock Podcast

GOD’S PURPOSE TO BLESS YOU | Numbers 6:22-27

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...

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Download a transcript for the August 24, 2021. Selah episode

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DOING THE IMPOSSIBLE | Zechariah 4:6-7

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... I feel like that from time to time, facing an impossible task, but I've got a bible verse that I come back to again and again as this first helps me get my bearings and gives me confidence for the way ahead... I'm going to read the verse and then I'm gonna talk about it a bit. I'm looking at the Old Testament prophecy of Zachariah, the Book of Zachariah, Chapter 4:6 as this is a word from God, a word that the prophet is to deliver to Zerubbabel. And we can take it as a word from God for us today.

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Download a transcript for the August 21, 2021, Selah episode

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THE FATHER’S CARE: SHARING LIFE WITH JESUS | John 15

I woke this morning with the most wonderful thought, I woke with the thought that I have a heavenly Father who loves me and who cares for me in every detail of my life. And that wasn't a real Godsend for me this morning, because while the last week has a ban especially difficult, I woke this morning thinking about Jesus's words in John 15-1. I am the true vine and my Father. My Father is the vinedresser. And then Jesus says, Abide in me as I abide in you. I am the vine, you are the branches. And so I woke with this incredible truth that Jesus Father, who is now Our Father, is the vinedresser...

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Download a transcript for the August 19, 2021 Selah Episode

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FORGIVEN | Psalm 130:3-4

Do you ever struggle with whether or not God really forgives you? Perhaps you know in your head that God forgives you. Your theology tells you that God forgives you, but it just hasn't sunk in yet. The brain has not notified your heart, and so you live with this sense of guilt, of shame, of disappointment by God. Carl Minnegar, the fame psychiatrist, founder of the Minnegar Clinic, said that if he could convince patients in psychiatric hospitals that their sins were forgiven, he said that 75% of the patients could walk out the door the next day. So you see, forgiveness is huge. And I wanna talk with you for the next few moments about forgiveness and knowing that you are freely, fully forgiven by God.

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Download a transcript for the August 17, 2021, Selah episode

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GOD INTENDS IT FOR GOOD | Genesis 50:19

Now, I'm thinking that you have probably had some people do you wrong, that there have been some people who have taken advantage of you, misused you, told lies about you. Am I right? And maybe just maybe you're having a hard time letting go of all that, a hard time moving on. A hard time seeing the good in it. Hey, well join the club. I've got a Bible verse for you today that I think might help. It's a verse, that has helped me a lot of mid-the-slings and arrows of life...

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Download a transcript for the August 14, 2021, Selah episode

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SPIRIT POWERED | Romans 8:11

Do you ever have mornings when your alarm goes off and you start thinking about some prickly people you're gonna have to deal with that day, or you think about problems that you're going to face? Or you just wanna curl up and go back to sleep? Or do ever have a night in the middle of the night, kind of night, so you toss and turn, you fret and worry, just wishing you had some kind of special power?

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Download a transcript for the August 12, 2021, Selah episode

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THE LORD LEADS ME | Psalm 23:3

Do you ever wonder if your life is just going around in circles? Then maybe, now you hate to think it, but maybe you're just going nowhere? I mean, this thing happens to you and then there's that thing that happens to you. Things come at you from out of the blue and you wonder, you wonder if there is any sense to it, any rhyme or reason.

For a few moments, I want to see how David looks at life. How we looked at where he's been, where he's going, where he sees it all leading him. I'm in Psalm 23 again, that beautiful shepherd psalm where we catch David looking at life.

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Download a transcript for the August 10, 2021, Selah episode

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The Main Thing in Life | Psalm 27

Educator, Steven Covey has said that the main thing is to keep the main thing, the main thing.

Now, his words really speak to me today as I find it so easy to get distracted from the main thing in life, that one all-important thing that matters most. I can so easily lose sight of that, and I think that's why I am so drawn to a scripture text that I wanna look at today as David models keeping the main thing, the main thing.

I'm looking at a Psalm of David, Psalm 27, verse 4, as here we see David laser-focused on the main thing...

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Download a transcript for the August 7, 2021, Selah episode

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God's Compassion for You

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 turvy 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.

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Christ is Your Life

A few years ago, my wife and I spent New Year's in Rosemary Beach, Florida with our kids and grandkids, where we discovered the Sugar Shack. That has to be the largest candy store in the world. I mean, I've never seen so much candy aisles and aisles of sugar. You cannot imagine how much candy there is, and you should have seen the eyes of my grandkids and Grandpa. And I tell you that because I often feel like a little boy in a candy store when I open up God's word is there is so much here. And that means for me that the Christian life is becoming new almost every day. There was so much more than I imagined.

And today, I wanna share with you a brief passage from the Word of God that is so rich and wonderful that I just keep coming back to these verses again and again...

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Download a transcript for the August 3, 2021 Selah episode

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