The Water from Rock Podcast

Today, I'm looking at Psalm 136, and I'm going to read the first few verses, and I think that'll give you a feel of what the psalm is about. Beginning in verse one. Oh, give thanks. You can feel the intensity, Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good for His steadfast love endures forever. Oh, give thanks to the God of gods, for His steadfast love endures forever. Oh, give thanks to the lord of...

Now we know that God works all things together for good, for those who love him, we know that. But do you ever wonder if the troubles you're going through right now? If God is really working them for good. How about the pain, the disappointment, the failure, is God really doing something with that? I wanna think about this for a few moments as I tell a quick Bible story and then tie that story wit...

Are you ever fearful about what you're reading in the news? Fearful about what you see happening in the world? I mean, there's inflation, there's lawlessness, war in the Ukraine, pandemic, and it seems that more and more people are calling evil good and calling good evil. Things seem kind of upside down right now, don't they? Are you fearful? Fear is a natural reaction to things that seem to threa...

Isn't it fascinating how a 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 thro...

I find myself in difficult times coming back again and again to stories about David and two psalms of David, we know more about David and the inner life, the inner workings of David, than any other person in scripture and that's why David makes for such wonderful case studies, for just about any life situation. David is a man who can rise to great heights and he can sink to great lows. I like to s...

I have a friend that whenever I see him and ask him how he's doing. He always says, I'm blessed. I like that because it's a good reminder for me. That as followers of Jesus, that we are blessed. I wanna look at scripture for a few moments to get an inkling of just how blessed you and I are. I'm looking at Ephesians Chapter 1:3, and this is one of my favorite verses in the Bible, as there was so mu...

How about let's take a break today, I should take a little breather, a pause from the news, from the over-stimulation, that feeling of having too much to do, and let's reboot. Let's just turn everything off for a bit, let's put on hold what needs to be done so that we can spend time with our heavenly Father. Download a transcript for the February 23, 2023 Selah episode **This transcript was genera...

Do you ever feel like you're running on empty? I don't mean your car, but in your life. Are there times when you feel like you're running on empty, when you don't know where you're gonna get the power to handle the problems that you're facing? Where you're gonna get the power to make the most of opportunity? Where do we get the power not just to keep going, but to thrive? That is a question that I...

The only constant in life is change. So said the Greek philosopher, Heraclitus, 2500 years ago. The only constant in life is change, and there sure has been a lot of change since then. As you and I, we face changes every day, whether it is a simple change in the weather, change in our schedule or expected change of seasons, and it seems like though we are living in a time of a lot of change and we...

I will always be grateful to my mom for first teaching me about the Psalms when I was a boy. When my mom told me that I could find a Psalm for every feeling I had, she said that there's a psalm for just about every life situation, and you know... My mom was right. Download a transcript for the February 14, 2023 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence and may not be...

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 ho...

Oh, for the gift to see ourselves as others see us. Scottish poet Robert Burns long 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. Then we're going to look at this today in the Old Testament Book of Judges, Chapter 6, is here was the back story. As the nation of Israel is on lockdown, this is a low point in...

Oh decisions, decisions. Life seems filled with decisions, doesn't it? Should I quit this job? Where should we live? Should we send the kids back to school? Should we down scale? Where does God want me to serve Him? Well, one might wish for the wisdom of Solomon... Download a transcript for the February 07, 2023 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence and may not b...

Well, I am back in the book of Psalms today, needing to be in the book of Psalms today. As I started out the day feeling confused, upset by the news, by what's going on in the world, and I will always be grateful to my mom for first teaching me about the Psalms when I was a boy. When my mom told me that I could find a Psalm for every feeling I had. She said that there's a psalm for just about ever...

Wow, have you seen the news today? Well, maybe you don't wanna go there, but these are troubling times, aren't they? A violence, lawlessness, civil disorder, attacks on just good old-fashioned morality, and it feels like politics is open warfare. So what is a follower of Jesus to do? Well, I have something from God's Word for us today. And with that, I want to take a look at what is going on behin...

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...

Do you ever have those moments? Well, when you just know you need to forgive someone, but you can't find it in you to forget, or you have a moment to you since God calling you to do something and you don't wanna do it, or you're wanting to obey God, but you don't know if you can... Well, if you ever have moments like that, I've got good news for you. It's a scripture verse that many have found hel...

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... Download a transcript for the January 26, 2023 Selah episode **This transcript was genera...

I remember as a boy watching a parade and seeing horses wearing with what looked to me like blind folds, and I asked my dad why they were wearing pieces of cloth around their eye. And my dad who had been raised on a farm, who had worked with horses my dad explained that sometimes horses needed to wear what was called blinders to keep their eyes focused on what was straight ahead rather than being...

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 w...

Imagine getting a phone call from a post or market researcher in the voice on the other end of the line asks you, "What do you want most in life?" What would you say? I mean, really deep down in your heart of hearts, what is it that you really want in life? What we really want reveals a lot about us, what we really want becomes the programming of our lives, and here's where I've got good news agai...

Now, I've heard that feeling thankful can present a real problem to an atheist or an agnostic, they don't know who or what to thank. Well, a Christian never has that problem, we know who to thank for our many blessings, we thank our Father in Heaven, but sometimes we might wonder how best to thank our Father for all that he does for us. DOWNLOAD A TRANSCRIPT FOR THE JANUARY 17, 2023 SELAH EPISOD E...

Home. Can you think of a more wonderful, more lovely word than home? The longing for home is deep, and most of us, that safe place where we can go just as we are, and they take a sit where we can kick off our shoes and relax and simply be who we are. Download a transcript for the January 14, 2023 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence and may not be 100% accurate.

Do you remember as a child, the wonder you felt the amazement as you begin to become aware to the incredible world around you? When you first learned that funny-looking little cocoon thing hanging on a tree that would morph into a caterpillar, that would morph into a butterfly... Download a transcript for the January 12, 2023 Selah episode **This transcript was generated by artificial intelligence...

The children's book, The Little Engine That Could was a very popular bedtime story at our home. It's a story about The Little Engine needing to get over the mountain with a lot of toys for the boys and girls. And, as a little injured begins to gather steam to get over the high mountain, it begins to say, I think I can. I think I can, I think I can. I think I can, I think again, saying it each time...