The Water from Rock Podcast

UNEXPECTED BLESSING | Exodus 16

“Dear God, thank you for the baby brother, but what I prayed for was a puppy,” so prayed Little Joyce in that wonderful book, Children's Letters to God. And I wonder about you today. Have you ever prayed like little Joyce where you ask God for one thing? And you're left confused and, and not very happy with what God gave you?

Download a transcript for the June 18, 2024 Selah episode

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WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH | Psalm 55:22 & 1 Peter 5:6-7

Caught between a rock and a hard place; up a creek without a paddle. Well, we all have sayings, catchphrases for those times when, when we're feeling in over our heads. And what to do in life's hard times is what I want to talk with you about for the next few moments.

Download a transcript for the June 15, 2024 Selah episode

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A SURE HOPE FOR THE FUTURE | Psalm 147:11

How is your hope for the future right now? I don't know what you're going through today or all that is happening in your life, but how is your hope? I'm asking that because from what I've experienced, when you've lost hope, you've lost most everything. I read somewhere that...

Download a transcript for the June 13, 2024 Selah episode

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GRACE GREATER THAN ALL OUR SIN | Romans 5:20

I want to begin today with a question for you. Which is greater, your sins or God's grace? Which is greater, more powerful, more commanding the, the sum total of all of your sins or God's grace?

Download a transcript for the June 11, 2024 Selah episode

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COMFORTING WORDS FOR DIFFICULT TIMES | Isaiah 43

Isn't it fascinating how God made the human eye so that when we enter darkness, the eye dilates? The eye gets bigger to let in more light. Now, as I look at scripture, I see something similar happening that when God's people enter a dark time, the eyes of the heart dilate- they get bigger to let in more like much of the Bible was written by someone going through a dark time, to someone going through a dark time, such as the passage that I feel compelled to turn to the day. 

Download a transcript for the June 08, 2024 Selah episode

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TO KNOW GOD’S INCOMPREHENSIBLE LOVE: Ephesians 3:16-19

Did you ever play the child game where you take a flower and you begin to pluck off the petals to see if someone loves you with each pedal you pluck? You say, she loves me, she loves me not. She loves me, she loves me not until you get to the last pedal, and you sure hope, or at least I hope the last pedal would be... She loves me. Now, I talk to a lot of people, a lot of Christians who are playing a game like that with God...

Download a transcript for the June 6, 2024 Selah episode

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LORD, I DON’T UNDERSTAND | Psalm 131

Do you have an I don't understand file? What I mean is do you have that place in your mind where you file things you do not understand? Things like, why doesn't God do something about this pandemic? Why did I get laid off from work or why did my son died from cancer? Actually, I have a growing I don't understand file. Things that I've learned to...

Download a transcript for the June 04, 2024 Selah episode

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GOD WRITES STRAIGHT WITH CROOKED LINES | 2 Corinthians 4:7

Do you ever give your all in service to the Lord and then feel it wasn't enough? You gave it your best and it just didn't seem good enough to you. You think of all the ways that you might have done better. You tried, but you felt you came short. Maybe you were leading a home Bible study, serving at the food pantry, talking to a friend about Jesus…you just wish you could have done better.

Download a transcript for the June 1, 2024 Selah episode

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BEGINNING OUR DAY WITH FATHER | Isaiah 50:4

Do you ever wonder, wonder how our Lord Jesus has this incredible ability to see the individual in the crowd? I mean, the gospel show many times when Jesus, he would single out one individual from the multitude to focus the full force of his love and attention on that one individual.

Download a transcript for the May 30, 2024 Selah episode

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FAITHFUL STEWARDS | 1 Peter 4:10

Early this morning, my wife and I were hiking on a desert mountain trail not far from our home when right in the middle of that trail, right in the middle of rocks and gravel and heat, there was a little weed that was blooming...

Download a transcript for the May 28, 2024 Selah episode

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