Free Range Preacher on Prayer

Joyful. Intimate conversation comes when we reveal ourselves to one another, as it is with God, when the Holy Spirit unveils to our eyes a treasure we failed to notice before. It took me years to notice when the rich young ruler made a very foolish assertion. “Teacher, I have kept all these things from my youth up.” Mark 10:29 Instead of chuckling at his claim to perfection, Mark tells us: “And lo...

In my culture, forgiveness and its importance grow every day. This episode is a repeat of our episode on forgiveness. This episode was well received, and as you will hear, praying that 2023 will be a year of Jubilee and Forgiveness, and revisiting just how serious God is about His children forgiving as we have been forgiven, seems like a good idea. Thank You, Jesus! The host is weak, faltering, an...

Psalm 139 displays our interaction through prayer and the necessity of the dark time for the Christian life. David shows us how to struggle with the nature of the Almighty, the wonderful, uplifting results of drawing close to the God of the universe, and the Savior, the cornerstone rejected,, and His comforts to our hearts, minds, and souls. Contemplating the nature of God and our distresses in th...

Today, in our nuts-and-bolts section, we see that Vietnam has moved ahead of all our listeners, save China and the United States. Thank You, Jesus, for the spread of the gospel! The episode ends at 11:30. We introduce the conversation Jesus has with a man at the pool of Bethesda. In this introduction, we see that Jesus' conversations take unexpected directions. Leaders were called to follow Jo...

The Price of knowledge is eternal review. - to that point, We desire a growing, Biblical, dynamic, sincere prayer life that satisfies our souls and, in turn, glorifies our Creator, Savior, and Sustainer. -Our tag-line. Today, we commence to review our tag-line, an exhortation to grow in relation to prayer. At the end, we will highlight our United Kingdom family. Our review: We are reconciled to ou...

Our devotional today is from Jeremiah. Meditating on this passage not only gives us a lesson in adoration, but informs us of the attributes of the Holy God of the universe. Many look at God as a character in the image of mankind, but stirring passages like Jeremiah 32:16-22 remind us just how majestic He is in His name, in all the earth! “After I had given the deed of purchase to Baruch the son of...

I like stories; true stories are the best and can inspire us in our Christian walk. Today, we take a high-level overview of the Battle of Marathon. From this battle, the Athenian hoplites used a two-word flex, “I ran.” As children of God, we don’t flex, but we do greatly rejoice at every instance of redemption. We also note that once we suit up in the full armor of God, we pray: “Therefore, take u...

Astonishing Conversation - Disciples New Focus This episode we. Finish the astonishing conversation in John 4. Jesus focuses the disciples on their intended mission. As He did with the Samaritan woman, He diverts their attention from the physical to the spiritual. His food is to do the will of the Father, and He calls them. “I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labor...

In my culture, forgiveness and its importance grow every day. This episode is a repeat of our episode on forgiveness. This episode was well received, and as you will hear, praying that 2023 will be a year of Jubilee and Forgiveness, and revisiting just how serious God is about His children forgiving as we have been forgiven, seems like a good idea. Thank You, Jesus! The host is weak, faltering, an...

Mary would one day need to be strengthened to the limits of our comprehension as she watched her son die a most Ignominious death. In the eyes of man, Jesus died in pain and shame. For our souls. At some point, it became her practice to strengthen herself for this sorrow. “But Mary treasured up all these things, pondering them in her heart.” Luke 2:19 “And He went down with them, and came to Nazar...

I know God has a sense of humor! Case in point, David, alone, isolated in the midst of great sorrow and regret, says: “For there is no one who regards me; There is no escape for me; No one cares for my soul. 5 I cried out to Thee, O LORD; I said, “Thou art my refuge, My portion in the land of the living. 6 “Give heed to my cry, For I am brought very low; Deliver me from my persecutors, For they ar...

Back in the. Paddock, we consider my Biblical mentor, David. We know the first two indicators of people we will like are 1. Are they like us? The second is, do we admire them and want to be like them? Hence, David, how do you become a “man after God’s own heart?” How did David become that believer after God’s own heart? He listened to God. Now these are the last words of David. “David, the son of...

Our Family focus today is the nation of Germany, and it begins at 17:23. Thank you all, our German family, you have an intriguing history, and we are glad you listen. As we are reminded to pray, God will reveal wonderful things from His law, we pick up the end ofJesus’ conversation with the woman at the well in the region of Samaria. We are introduced to two different reactions to this astonishing...

Plans change; that might be a theme of this podcast, Jesus' conversations with people in the book of John. We want to explore possible applications. Today, being sincere is an import from Jesus and His conversation with the woman at the well in Samaria. When she answered, "I have no husband," she was not honest with Jesus. His answer, "you have well said," in the passage di...

We’re caught up! - to December 2025. We beg the question, “What is time to a Neurodivergent? We finish up with the woman at the well, and her astonishing conversation with the Savior of the world. The importance of the eternal over the temporal. Mark 8:36 “For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul? “Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decay...

Jesus meets a woman at a well; this event gets right to the point. Our lives are much more than what we see physically, and the real existential threat is not to our earthly lives, but to our eternal souls. So critical is this truth that Jesus brings up what the woman would not say. "Go, call your husband, and come here." What unfolded next led the woman to the spiritual. "The woman...

Review of the woman at the well from John 4. We begin today with a prayer for our brothers and sisters in Russia and Ukraine. Most of all, a worldwide revival might even start there, in the midst of turmoil. The conversation in John 4 is as astonishing as our prayers. To the woman, a Jew talking to a Samaritan woman was unthinkable. The holy God of the universe initiating communion with us is just...

In the United States, we face a loneliness problem. With all our communication tools, we lack true community skills. (In the olden days, we called that koinonia, having all things in common.) This need for connection is evident even in the story of creation itself. Genesis 3:8ff teaches that God communed with Adam and Eve in a natural relationship. Further, we need each other. “Then the LORD God s...

We are reviewing our podcasts highlighting Jesus and the woman at the well. Fresh season 8 episodes in a few days. In the olden days, driving out to the Boise National Forest and coming home from the same, God talked to me first. It was a hard truth that I had no comprehension of until I unexpectedly found myself in church. God spoke through a billboard containing His word. "For the wages of...

Our Family focus today is the nation of Germany, and it begins at 17:23. Thank you all, our German family, you have an intriguing history, and we are glad you listen. As we are reminded to pray, God will reveal wonderful things from His law, we pick up the end ofJesus’ conversation with the woman at the well in the region of Samaria. We are introduced to two different reactions to this astonishing...

In his book, “Praying the Bible,” Donald S. Whitney makes the point that one of the difficulties in prayer is that we tend to “say the same old things, about the same old things,” and that gets tiresome. While that is true during some seasons of our lives, his suggestion that we pray as we read our Bibles is a good way to add variety to our supplications. We can also ignite our prayers by constant...

We live in a world, especially here in my culture in the United States, we live in a world that's drowning in vitriol, that vitriol, that hatred. Those angry, ugly words are applauded in my culture. And not only that, they're sometimes made heroic. And all they do is tear down. Jesus, on the other hand, asks us to be gentle and humble at heart, and to speak our family language. The languag...

We welcome Chile and Czechia to the podcast family, and we highlight the country that has jumped into second place on our list. Thank You, Jesus. Part one of this little. Refresher was Pray, Pray, Pray. In part two, we are encouraged to Practice, Practice, Practice. We see how God is a better Father than we are. He never tells us to avoid prayer until we are mature enough. We are encouraged to let...

In my culture, forgiveness and its importance grow every day. In my culture, forgiveness and its importance grow every day. This episode is a repeat of our episode on forgiveness. This episode was well received, and as you will hear, praying that 2023 will be a year of Jubilee and Forgiveness, and revisiting just how serious God is about His children forgiving as we have been forgiven, seems like...

Once again, a little review, prayer is talking to God; we have made that case from 2018. It is also true we grow in prayer, and a new concept up coming, we will see the importance of our family language. We feature Mauritius in our nuts-and-bolts addendum. In Mauritius, we have the second-largest listening base for the podcast. Today, we are urged, wherever you are in your Christian life, to draw...