Weekly teaching and devotionals from Water from Rock Ministries in Phoenix, Arizona
Episodes
Saturday Mar 13, 2021
Saturday Mar 13, 2021
Your broken places are where my light shines through. It was like... It was like the spirit of God whispered that to me once as I was feeling very broken, it was a time of darkness for me. The feeling that things were out of control, and I sense the calm voice of God's Spirit saying, Your broken places are where my light shines through. And I thought about that for a bit...
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Thursday Mar 11, 2021
Thursday Mar 11, 2021
Oh, for the gift to see ourselves as others see us. That was a gift that Scottish poet Robert Burns wanted. But I'm gonna talk to you about a far better gift in that, and that is to see ourselves as God sees us. That really is what is most important, because the truest thing about you is not how others see you, it's not how you see you but how God sees you. As a pastor and a chaplain for many years, I've listened to a lot of people, and I've come to the conclusion that the major cause of most spiritual problems, the major cause of most emotional problems as Christians comes from our failure to see ourselves as God see us. So I'm want to read just a brief passage of Scripture that I find to be so freeing, so life-giving as it helps me to see myself as God sees me, and I pray that it will help you too.
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Tuesday Mar 09, 2021
Tuesday Mar 09, 2021
Have you ever thought of your Christian life as a masterpiece? Have you ever heard God saying to you, you are my handiwork, you were special to me? Maybe you have, maybe you haven't. Well, I hope that today you will hear God speaking this to you as I am in the New Testament book of Ephesians chapter 2, verse 10, and what I think has got to be one of the most amazing, most wonderful verses in all of the Bible.
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Saturday Mar 06, 2021
Saturday Mar 06, 2021
I didn't know what to talk about with you today. I was feeling scattered, bothered, weighed down, I just couldn't get it together. And then I thought about what I was feeling, and I remembered a time in the life of David when he was feeling something like that, and it helped me to remember what David did when he was burdened, and that took me to a Psalm of David... Psalm 55. And I will admit straight up that I wasn't facing anything like what David is facing in Psalm 55, but you know, it helped me to see how David deals with burdens. And I think it can help you too, when you're burdened, bothered, just can't get it together.
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Thursday Mar 04, 2021
Thursday Mar 04, 2021
I'm gonna get right to it. I wanna read a verse of scripture and then tell a story, and it all has to do with how God sees you as a follower of Jesus. First the scripture, Colossians 1:22. Christ has now reconciled you in his fleshly body through death, so as to present you holy, blameless and irreproachable before him. And that's how God looks at you as a follower of Jesus. Christ has reconciled you to God.
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Tuesday Mar 02, 2021
Tuesday Mar 02, 2021
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.
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Saturday Feb 27, 2021
Saturday Feb 27, 2021
You know, there was something about being human that we want to know our purpose. We want to know what something is for, and as a pastor and chaplain, I have talked with many people over the years who were wanting to know their purpose, they were wanting to know what they were here for. Well, as I look at the Psalms, I see that David was a man keenly focus on purpose and on his reason for being here. And I'm thinking that you too also might be wanting to know about your purpose and what you're here for. And I find that David has a lot to say about life purpose, which is helpful in the ups and downs of our lives.
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Thursday Feb 25, 2021
Thursday Feb 25, 2021
Hey. How about some good news? Would you like some?
Well, I've got good news for you. You did nothing to make God love you, and you can't do anything to make him stop.
That's the clear message of a Psalm I'm looking at today and that I wanna pass on to you. This is a psalm that in Jesus' day was a favorite, one that they often sang. We don't talk about this so much today, and I think that's because it is so repetitive that is... It just keeps saying the same thing over and over again. It keeps on saying, "the steadfast love of the Lord endures forever." No matter what you've done, no matter what you have gotten yourself into, the steadfast love of the Lord for you endures forever.
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Tuesday Feb 23, 2021
Tuesday Feb 23, 2021
Do you ever feel like you're running on empty?
I don't mean your car, but in your life where you feel like you're running on fumes perhaps not quite sure where you're going to get the power to keep going. That's how some people I know are feeling after months of a pandemic, and then piled on top of that or the tragic headlines in the news recently. And then there's my friend, who's fighting a battle against cancer and he's feeling exhausted.
Where do we go to get the strength to keep going?
That's a question I've often had to deal with in my own life and ministry. Today, I've turned to a scripture that helps me when I'm looking for strength to keep going.
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Saturday Feb 20, 2021
Saturday Feb 20, 2021
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?
My go-to verse when I'm needing special power, special wisdom, is the magnificent Eighth Chapter of Romans that some have called Romans 8 the Himalayas of the Bible...
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