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We begin a new feature on the podcast, Real-Time Issues in Prayer. It is one of the ways we have become more interactive. All who listen have questions or comments so that we can consider them in the real-time thread. We now have three ways to contact us with your thoughts: www.freerangepreacheronprayer.com, freerangeprayer@gmail.com and responses to our questions on Spotify We begin with a thought that seems to be in the present-day zeitgeist: "Does God really need our prayers?" In our introduc...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.freersangpreacheronprayer.com and use the Donations tab. Welcome back… We begin with an apology for the delay, and one because I gave some less than accurate information in the last episode. So thank you for your patience, and Jesus did indeed rebuke John and Andrew when they spoke of calling down fire on an unwelcoming village. It seemed a gentle rebuke reminding them of the gentle nature of His kingdom. T...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. Our tagline for the last five years is not to encourage, exhort, and perhaps educate (a little) on the type of prayer life that lifts our affections to the abundant life and glorifies God. Today, we look to the apostle John for the Biblical stages he gives us in spiritual growth in general, and then apply those stages to prayer. John outlines in John 2:12-14 we are...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. New web address! - www.freerangepreacheronprayer.com (long but memorable) Today, we consider the questions asked in installment 1 of this episode: What does it look like to love the Lord with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength? How can we love someone so much if we rarely or never interact, talk to, or converse with them? The first is open-ended, and the seco...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab What is prayer? We expand our definition of prayer a little bit, for we do have a history together. Prayer is talking to God, and thats how we begin. It is talking to God, however, with the purpose of flowering our talks into conversation. We consider two passages today, and two questions. Our passages: “And this is eternal life, that they may know Thee, the only tr...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. Luke 5:16 tells us: "But He Himself would often slip away to the wilderness and pray." Why? He is simply amidst all the activity, craving time with the Father. At least part of "the joy set before Him," (He not only accomplishes His ministry, the payment for salvation) His eternal glory is once again realized. "I glorified Thee on the earth, having accomplished the...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. It doesn't matter where we begin to pray, but that we start to pray. Gratitude alone will not sustain our prayer lives. Our needs will not maintain our prayers. Being told we ought to pray will not sustain our prayer lives. The answer to those prayers is not the answer; our relationship with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is getting to know Him and knowing throug...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. It doesn't matter where we begin to pray, but that we start to pray. Gratitude alone will not sustain our prayer lives. Our needs will not maintain our prayers. Being told we ought to pray will not sustain our prayer lives. The answer to those prayers is not the answer; our relationship with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is getting to know Him and knowing throug...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. It doesn't matter where we begin to pray, but that we start to pray. Gratitude alone will not sustain our prayer lives. Our needs will not maintain our prayers. Being told we ought to pray will not sustain our prayer lives. The answer to those prayers is not the answer; our relationship with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is getting to know Him and knowing throug...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. We have looked at the three main reasons, from my experience and observations, Christians begin to pray. We then asked: Do you remember your first prayers? Of the three reasons given: Do you see any weaknesses in those prayers? (In the context of developing a consistent prayer life) Which one was not like the others? In this installment, we answer those questions. ...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. We want to look at the big picture of Biblical prayer. When we begin with the parts of prayer, we usually set ourselves up for a longer and more difficult road to our growing, Biblical, dynamic, sincere, and soup-satisfying, God-glorifying prayer life. I have observed three ways Christians typically begin to work on the art of prayer. Today, we see those ways are: ...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. We want to look at the big picture of Biblical prayer. When we begin with the parts of prayer, we usually set ourselves up for a longer and more difficult road to our growing, Biblical, dynamic, sincere, and soup-satisfying, God-glorifying prayer life. I have observed three ways Christians typically begin to work on the art of prayer. Today, we see those ways are: ...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. We invite you to listen to what makes the Free Range Preacher on Prayer podcast an encouragement to prayer and how the ministry will expand to include prayer journals to remind us how to build a meaningful prayer life. "Why this particular podcast on prayer?" That is the question we have been considering for the last three installments. It is a call back to the mov...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. Why this particular podcast? Have you ever been reading through the Bible or listening to a sermon And thought to yourself, Man, what a great life David or Barnabas, the apostle John, had? Perhaps even the "son of thunder," James? His life was very short, but what a great life. James lived by faith, and he lived it in power as well. Have you ever considered them an...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. Okay, a few days off did not help my mic discipline! Having answered the question, Why a Podcast on Prayer? We now turn to Why this podcast? The worst part of the pandemic for me was seeing the fear in people's eyes. Living in fear is no way to live. One encounter with a terrified young mother illustrates the same empathy your podcast principal has for God's people...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. In examining the question, "What is Prayer?" We accidentally learn why we pray. Even though no Biblical person asks why we pray? Their lives reveal our anguished need for prayer. We are sinners. Until glory, we struggle with sin. Prayer is the act of faith that assures our soul. We are complex lonely beings, and prayer brings us into the arms of our heavenly Father...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. After some evaluation and review, we begin season 6 of the Free Range Preacher on Prayer podcast, asking, ç Having discussed our long conversation about prayer, which answers the question, "Why listen to a podcast exclusively about prayer? We lay out our goals for the coming year: 1. A more organic mix of episodes to meet our goal: "Exhort, encourage, and God's peo...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. After some evaluation and review, we begin season 6 of the Free Range Preacher on Prayer podcast, asking, "Why listen to a podcast exclusively about prayer? Good question for two reasons: There are many places to learn about prayer. You can read books, listen to sermons, follow prayer movements, find articles, and find prayer helps, such as journals (paper or elect...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. A simple prayer of Thanksgiving. "What a man is on his knees before God, that he is and nothing more." "What a man is on his knees before God, that he is and nothing more." Robert Murray M'Cheyne Assistant Editor: Seven Jefferson Gossard www.frponprayer.com freerangeprayer@gmail.com Facebook - Free Range Preacher Ministries Instagram: freerangeministries All our Sc...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. David asks, who will do us any good? Yahweh, our Creator, Redeemer, and Holy power, will always do us good. Therefore, we worship and give thanks as we lie down and sleep, knowing His abundant goodness and Favor for a lifetime. "Many are saying, 'Who will show us any good?' Lift up the light of Thy countenance upon us, O LORD! 7 Thou hast put gladness in my heart, ...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. Appreciating God for who He is and what He has done is a critical characteristic of the child of God. Even the term "child of God" carries the weight of being needy and humble. Humility born of gratitude: Squarely gives God the glory due Him and moves our souls to rest in our trust in the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. It is suitable for our soul to be thankful as w...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. "Neighbors are kind, I love them everyone We get along in sweet accord But when my soul, needs manna from above Where could I go but to the Lord?" So goes the hymn "Where Could I Go but to the Lord." Who do we go to when we need protection. There is a long list of illustrative word pictures in the Scripture. All are as graphic as David's cry: He will cover you with...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. The Apostle Paul is our example, and as you have read, he is continually giving thanks for everyone he knows or has heard who are in Christ. Christians he has never met: "First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all because your faith is being proclaimed throughout the whole world. 9 For God, whom I serve in my spirit in the preaching of the gospel of His...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. As I listened to a sermon by Alistair Begg, I realized his thoughts on our primary responses to Jesus Being the Bread of Life (very edifying sermons) were a perfect summary of the fallback positions we discussed. His thoughts on our response to the truth, "I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me shall not hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst," ut...