For the Kingdom: a neverthirst podcast

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Join For the Kingdom, a neverthirst Production and be encouraged as we recount journeys of faith, hope, and transformation from some of the hardest-to-reach places on earth. Each episode invites you to see how God is moving among the unreached through the gift of clean water and the faithful witness of His church. You’ll hear short devotionals from God’s Word, powerful stories from donors and team members, and join us in prayer for people groups who are still waiting to know about Jesus. Be encouraged. Be inspired. And be part of God’s mission to bring clean and living water to the unreached. To Learn More About neverthirst: neverthirstwater.org/ "Bringing Clean and Living Water to the Unreached"

  1. Sep 7

    The Battle Starts the Moment You Decide to Pray

    A year ago Spencer and a few close friends started meeting at 7 a.m. every Monday in the neverthirst office to pray. Something changed, and none of them can imagine stopping now. In this episode he opens the Psalms to ask what happens when God's people call on Him, then puts a harder question on the table: if men building rockets feel urgency every single day, why don't we feel it about the things of God? Drawing on 19th-century writer Philip Bennett Power and his book The "I Wills" of the Psalms, Spencer talks about why the battle begins the moment you resolve to pray, and why the spirit of prayer is itself something to pray for. He closes with the story of how neverthirst began in 2007, two friends praying once a week over Psalm 67, and asks supporters to pray that this work would magnify Christ among the unreached. Scriptures: Psalm 28:1; 55:16–17; 61:1–2; 63:1; 86:7; 121:1; 67:1–2; 2 Chronicles 14:11–12; James 5:17–18; Luke 1:13; Jeremiah 29:12–14; John 4 Referenced: Philip Bennett Power, The "I Wills" of the Psalms (confirm spelling and title before publishing) Pray for: neverthirst, that God would raise up laborers for the hardest places and supporters who give sacrificially so Christ would be known. New episodes every two weeks. =================================== Connect with Spencer and the neverthirst team: neverthirstwater.org Host: Spencer Sutton To Learn More About neverthirst: neverthirstwater.org =================================== Production House: Flint Stone Media Copyright of neverthirst 2025.

  2. Aug 24

    The Hand That Holds the Mountains

    Spencer just got back from a week in Glacier National Park with his son Grant, where the best language two grown men could find for twelve miles of the Highline Trail was insane, amazing, beautiful. Right instinct, wrong size. So he turns to Psalm 95, where James Montgomery Boice finds two reasons to worship, in order. First, God is a great God: verses 4 and 5 inventory the depths, the heights, the sea, the dry land, with nothing left over. Second, He is our own dear Shepherd — the hands that formed the dry land formed us, and the hand holding the depths of the earth is the same hand John 10 says no one can snatch us out of. Glacier gives you the first reason for free; it can't tell you whether the One who made it knows your name. The episode closes with a prayer for the Bindla people of Andhra Pradesh, India. =================================== Connect with Spencer and the neverthirst team: neverthirstwater.org Host: Spencer Sutton To Learn More About neverthirst: neverthirstwater.org =================================== Production House: Flint Stone Media Copyright of neverthirst 2025.

  3. Aug 10

    Useful and Joyful

    Picking up where the last episode left off. God told Moses, "I will be with you." That's it. That was the whole answer to "who am I?" Spencer walks a chain of that same promise through Genesis, Joshua, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and into the New Testament. Then he asks the question he'd been journaling about that morning: can we lose God's presence? Saul lost it. David begged God not to take it. So where does that leave us on this side of the cross? The answer he lands on is union and communion. We're sealed in Christ and that doesn't move. Abiding is the part we can neglect. Two things are at stake when we do. Usefulness, and joy. He closes with 4 things he wrote in his journal, a quote on Psalm 16:11 from 1654, and prayer for the Tukum of Sudan. 23,000 people in the Nuba Mountains, in a region torn up by conflict, with no known believers. =================================== Connect with Spencer and the neverthirst team: neverthirstwater.org Host: Spencer Sutton To Learn More About neverthirst: neverthirstwater.org =================================== Production House: Flint Stone Media Copyright of neverthirst 2025.

  4. Jul 27

    All Authority, All Nations, All He Commanded, All the Days

    Spencer walks through the Great Commission (Matthew 28:18-20) and the one command at its center: make disciples. Drawing on Herb Hodges and the four "alls" Jesus gives, he ties it to neverthirst's work reaching unreached communities with clean water and the gospel. The episode closes praying for the Terai Brahmin of Nepal, 114,000 people with no known believers. =================================== Connect with Spencer and the neverthirst team: neverthirstwater.org Host: Spencer Sutton To Learn More About neverthirst: neverthirstwater.org =================================== Production House: Flint Stone Media Copyright of neverthirst 2025.

  5. Jul 13

    What Are They for So Many?

    Spencer reads the feeding of the 5,000 from John 6:4-15 and sits with three questions. What does this show us about God? What about the boy who handed over his lunch? And how should any of it change us in 2026? The answer to the first one stacks up fast. God sees people in their need. He has compassion. He loves to dwell with the lowly. He holds the power, and He's the one who provides. Jesus feeds more than 10,000 people from five loaves and two fish, then calls himself the bread of life. Then there's the boy. He didn't have much. He gave it anyway, and Jesus did the rest. Spencer ties that to neverthirst's own start: one village in Wito, South Sudan, and a prayer that God would multiply it. He leans on Richard Phillips, A.W. Pink, and the prayer-driven ministry of George Mueller, who fed thousands of orphans without a fundraising plan, a marketing team, or a podcast. Just his knees. The takeaway Spencer keeps coming back to: don't measure the need against your own poverty. Measure it against what God can do. The episode closes with the story of Mey, a man in Southeast Asia who came to faith in 2025 after a neverthirst partner showed up to assess his village for a water project. Then a prayer focus for the Sokoto Fulani, an unreached people group in Niger. =================================== Connect with Spencer and the neverthirst team: neverthirstwater.org Host: Spencer Sutton To Learn More About neverthirst: neverthirstwater.org =================================== Production House: Flint Stone Media Copyright of neverthirst 2025.

  6. Jun 29

    We Live if You Are Standing Fast

    Spencer walks through 1 Thessalonians 3:6–13, reading it alongside D.A. Carson's book on Paul's prayers. The thread: Paul, under persecution and forced to flee Thessalonica, isn't distressed about his own affliction — he's distressed until Timothy brings word that the young church's faith is holding. Paul's joy and very life are bound up in their spiritual well-being, not their size, popularity, or programs. From there Spencer draws the application: a life of significance is a life poured out for others, for the glory of God and the advancement of the gospel. He contrasts a culture that asks "how can I use others to serve myself?" with Paul's model of giving your life away. He shares two field stories (locations withheld for safety): a pastor to nomads in sub-Saharan Africa, called to that work since 1980, who recently baptized 13 new believers — including a village leader who said he'd never seen anyone love his people that way. And a pastor in a region hostile to the gospel who spent three months in prison on conversion charges, then returned, served through a water project, and was eventually welcomed into the very homes that had rejected him. Spencer closes by praying for an unreached people group in Chad, and giving thanks for the pastors on the ground and the supporters who make the work possible =================================== Connect with Spencer and the neverthirst team: neverthirstwater.org Host: Spencer Sutton To Learn More About neverthirst: neverthirstwater.org =================================== Production House: Flint Stone Media Copyright of neverthirst 2025.

  7. Jun 15

    Jason Berry on the front lines in sub-Saharan Africa

    Jason just got back from a country in sub-Saharan Africa, where he camped in villages for nearly a week with no electricity and 110-degree heat. He went to document the work for the 99% of supporters who'll never see it firsthand. He rode a donkey to the contaminated source one mother had used for about 20 years, then filmed her at her new tap stand. The reclaimed time let her be with her 8 kids and start a small business. Jason and Spencer also talk about why neverthirst now lists regions instead of countries (to protect partners), and how clean water meets a real need and opens the door for the gospel in places where the church is a tiny minority. =================================== Connect with Spencer and the neverthirst team: neverthirstwater.org Host: Spencer Sutton To Learn More About neverthirst: neverthirstwater.org =================================== Production House: Flint Stone Media Copyright of neverthirst 2025.

  8. Jun 1

    Monuments That Last: Building Legacies That Matter

    In this episode, Spencer reflects on two recent trips. First, Washington, D.C. for National Police Week to honor his brother-in-law Mark. Then California with colleague Brandon Gossett to visit faithful neverthirst donors. Walking among the monuments and memorials in D.C. got him thinking about how people throughout history have built structures to be remembered, from the Lincoln Memorial to the Taj Mahal to the Great Pyramids to Cambodia's Killing Fields memorial. He brings that thread to the story of Mary anointing Jesus in Matthew 26:6–16, where an act of sacrificial worship became an eternal memorial. Mary poured herself out for Christ, and Jesus said her story would be told wherever the gospel is proclaimed. Spencer draws on James Montgomery Boice and the Puritan prayer collection The Valley of Vision to show how God's economy works: the way down is the way up, and whoever loses his life for Christ's sake will find it. He connects this to the generosity of neverthirst supporters whose giving platforms the gospel through clean water in unreached communities. =================================== Connect with Spencer and the neverthirst team: neverthirstwater.org Host: Spencer Sutton To Learn More About neverthirst: neverthirstwater.org =================================== Production House: Flint Stone Media Copyright of neverthirst 2025.

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Join For the Kingdom, a neverthirst Production and be encouraged as we recount journeys of faith, hope, and transformation from some of the hardest-to-reach places on earth. Each episode invites you to see how God is moving among the unreached through the gift of clean water and the faithful witness of His church. You’ll hear short devotionals from God’s Word, powerful stories from donors and team members, and join us in prayer for people groups who are still waiting to know about Jesus. Be encouraged. Be inspired. And be part of God’s mission to bring clean and living water to the unreached. To Learn More About neverthirst: neverthirstwater.org/ "Bringing Clean and Living Water to the Unreached"

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