Weekly teaching and devotionals from Water from Rock Ministries in Phoenix, Arizona
Episodes
Thursday Feb 18, 2021
Thursday Feb 18, 2021
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...
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Tuesday Feb 16, 2021
Tuesday Feb 16, 2021
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 2:4 where Boaz greets Ruth with the words the Lord be with you and Ruth answers back, the Lord bless you. And those words, those blessings set in motion the little Ruth becoming...
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Saturday Feb 13, 2021
Saturday Feb 13, 2021
People say that you got to have self-confidence... That it's all about self-confidence. That if you don't have self-confidence that you're going to be insecure, that you're going to stumble through life and fail. And so when I was a teenager, I wanted self-confidence, and so I read books and magazines on how to build my self-confidence... Well, it took some time, but over the years, I found something much more wonderful than self-confidence. I began to discover God-confidence. And let me tell you that God-confidence works so much better than self-confidence. God-confidence makes life an adventure.
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Thursday Feb 11, 2021
Thursday Feb 11, 2021
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.
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Tuesday Feb 09, 2021
Tuesday Feb 09, 2021
How do you picture God today? You see, God is smiling at you or is God frowning? For a long time, I pictured God as frowning at me, it's like I thought that God was always ticked off at me that I wasn't dedicated enough that I didn't pray enough, I didn't read my Bible enough. For you see sometime early in my Christian life, I got infected, infected by legalism, that is thinking that we are put right with God by what we do, legalism says, do but the gospel says, Done. I wanna share with you a Scripture passage that I can remember the first time I read it. It was like God threw up and the windows got through, open the door, and God let grace rush into my life.
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Saturday Feb 06, 2021
Saturday Feb 06, 2021
I wanna think with you for a few moments about six things that we need to say before we die, as I've actually come to think of them as six things we need to say before we live. Before we live full passionate meaning-filled lives. Now unlike the way I usually do a Selah podcast, I do not have one particular scripture passage today because well, these six things we need to say run throughout the Bible, they are practical every day Christian living, where the rubber meets the road.
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Thursday Feb 04, 2021
Thursday Feb 04, 2021
Do you ever wonder what God is up to? Do you wonder what God is thinking? What does God have in mind with our troubles and trials? As a pastor and chaplain, I've seen quite a bit of pain and suffering up close, and I could guess that I could say that I've had well, my share of pain and suffering too. And there was a passage of scripture that I have underlined in my Bible, a big star beside it, a passage that helps me a lot to get a glimpse of what God is up to in our affliction and pain.
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Tuesday Feb 02, 2021
Tuesday Feb 02, 2021
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.
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Saturday Jan 30, 2021
Saturday Jan 30, 2021
Philosopher Theologian Dallas Willard said that the ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we allow our minds to dwell on. The important word here is "dwell." What do we allow our minds to dwell on these days, what do we allow our minds to focus on to meditate on?
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Thursday Jan 28, 2021
Thursday Jan 28, 2021
Delight and desire. That's right, I wanna talk with you for a few moments about delight and desire. Something we don't talk much about in sermons and in Christian circles, but something we really should talk about, and that is how important it is for our lives to be marked by delight and desire. That is to have the fire, the passion of delight and desire in us.....
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