Free Range Preacher on Prayer

Jesus commands us to ask, seek, and knock. He teaches us to ask, seek, and knock for good things, and God will not give us stones or snakes but those good things. He knows our needs, has perfect answers in store, and how to grow each of us to spiritual maturity through those answers. Molding our prayers to glorify Himself, conform us to His will, and open to us the hoys of eternal life right now....

The word of God is: 12 For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. 13 And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do. Hebrews 4:12-13 Attest...

Our God supplies abundantly all we need; everything, the blatant and the subtle. We are blessed by friends. In fact, Psalm 118 constantly makes me think of not just the friends and family I have the pleasure to have contact with now but those in my pilgrimage who have blessed me in the past. The LORD is for me among those who help me; Psalm 118:7a How can we pray for our brothers and sisters who a...

We may look at Jacob and think he failed the better part of his life in trusting God and experiencing the comfort of such active faith (I know that is the way I lean), and we mad admire Joseph and His faith which made him faithful to his calling, What is excellent news to our ears right now is, Jacob’s faith did not thwart the plan of God, and Jacob’s faithfulness did not earn the good intent of G...

Bragging is sin, but in faith, we are thoroughly admonished to boast. We can be thankful for our boasting. Jeremiah 9:23-24 23 Thus says the LORD, “Let not a wise man boast of his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast of his might, let not a rich man boast of his riches; 24 but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD who exercises lovingkindness, j...

We have the privilege of being born again, saved by grace through the mercies of God. In this divine privilege, our new inner man longs to know God more and more. Our souls long for that genuine relationship and know Him more and more. Our desire is God-given and insatiable. As a result of our meditation of God and His Word, we are carried away in the sweet confusion of desiring what we cannot att...

We know that is true, as we take simple Biblical teaching about mankind, it is essential. Human Condition: We are complicated personal beings. In truth, we know in our own individual hearts that we are capable of noble and positive emotions, thoughts, and actions. We are also capable of evil and negative emotions, thoughts, and actions. We see those possibilities enough in other people, so we know...

Compassion in our prayers, because there is terrible news… but that is not all the news. The reason we pray: Jeremiah 17:9 “The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can understand it? Romans 1:16-17 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousne...

"The Bible teaches that prayer is the chief and perpetual exercise of faith." And: "Prayer cannot help but express the hope and joy that are inevitably attached to faith." John Calvin We made it! October has been a roller coaster in regards to the events of the last few weeks. There is joy in the battle because we have access to the throne room of our Creator, Savior, indwelling Teacher, Sovereign...

"I would rather be Master of the Art of Prayer than M.A. of both universities (Oxford and Cambridge). He who knows how to pray has his hand on the leverage which moves the universe." Charles H. Spurgeon Prayer is a gift of God, and it is available to all the children of God. Our God is infinitely wonderful and infinitely awe-inspiring. He uses our prayers! We have no possible idea how he directs o...

Seven, our assistant editor, turns ten today! We celebrate the anniversary and Seven’s Big day. From feeling the presence of God in prayer to building his own prayer closet to the spontaneous prayer in the wonder of his creator and all His creation, the Little Big Kahuna continually displays a super-natural and dynamic experience with His Savior. May it ever be so, my Jesus. And since He bids me s...

“May the matter of my prayer be always wise, humble, submissive, obedient, scriptural, Christ-like.” The Valley of Vision. How many hours can we pray for? Wisdom. Humility. Submission. Obedience. Conforming to Scripture. To Be Christ-like. Nuf said. And since He bids me seek His face, Believe His Word and trust His grace, I'll cast on Him my every care, And wait for thee, sweet hour of prayer!" As...

“The cruel torture of crucifixion couldn’t silence Jesus’ prayer. The crushing stones couldn’t silence Stephen’s prayer, but I wonder what has silenced your prayer for your enemy. So love your enemies, pray for your persecutors.” John MacArthur We have often talked about forgiveness and prayer on the Free Range Preacher on Prayer, and I would have expressed the previous truth differently, but… Som...

Martin Luther, while not banning written prayers, heavily advocated spontaneous prayers from our hearts. He employed words, such as spontaneous, unprepared, not prescribed, passion from the heart, the ethos of our conversation should be in our language. Even in prescribed prayers, should be infused by the essence of who we are as His children, formed in the power of the Holy Ghost, and unashamedly...

“The Bible is a letter God has sent to us, and prayer is a letter we send to Him.” Matthew Henry This sounds a lot like the two-way conversation we have talked about on the podcast! (I may have stumbled into something by accident.) Not really. It is Biblical; in point of fact, our prayers are our responses to what He has revealed to us. Only now, we might say, He has sent us a letter, and we have...

(God's promises) "are the mould into which we may pour our fervid spirits without fear, they are the signed cheque, made payable to order, which must be endorsed and presented for payment." - F.B. Meyer God's promises are yes and Amen (I wish I would have thought of that in the episodes!), as well as his appeal, to pray those promises. His will is mysterious but clear to us. He tells us He will su...

“Gather expectantly, listen intently, respond correctly, and depart joyfully.” Alistair Begg. What a gift the word of God is, and every time we read the Bible, go to church, or in any other manner hear the word of God, our inner man thirsts for the word, pay careful attention to our Savior, knows the lesson is for our instruction first of all. The inner man is filled with the joy of conviction and...

“You will not find one godly man who came out of an affliction worse than he went into it. Though for a while, he was shaken, yet at last, he was better for an affliction. But a great many godly men have been worse for their prosperity.” Jeremiah Burroughs Nuf said. And since He bids me seek His face, Believe His Word and trust His grace, I'll cast on Him my every care, And wait for thee, sweet ho...

“Prayer is one of the necessary wheels of the machinery of providence. Charles Spurgeon The glory of providence! It is a mystery, a comfort, joy, and hope. The greatest wonder of all is God’s use of the prayers of His beloved children to bring about His marvelous will. We love the hymn lyrics: And since He bids me seek His face, Believe His Word and trust His grace, I'll cast on Him my every care,...

“One may say that prayer is the catalyst for faith, a condition under which the faithful are armed to do battle with satan, and by which they are enabled to enjoy confidence, peace, and joy in spite of the warfare in which they are engaged. “ - ??? One of the pictures the Bible gives for us is that in battle. If we have not experienced combat, we have all, to some degree or another, experienced it...

"The more sanctified a person is, the more heavily weighted his prayer time is in adoration." R.C. Sproul The more we learn to trust, the less we feel emotionally compelled to bow before God and ask him for our immediate needs. We are supposed to pray with importunity, we're going to look at that soon. But we have less of an emotional need to repeat ourselves. The more we learn, the more we trust,...

You will notice two things in this episode, which are ancillary but are a good thing, The sound is different and better, no… really, this time I mean it. And, I spelled Doctor Jone's name correctly. I spent more than a year listening to and reading this man, and I never noticed I was misspelling his name! Thank is why all my friends call me a detail man. Lol, out loud. The important stuff, "Always...

We don't grieve as the rest who have no hope... Thank You Jesus for blessing us through Mike Beaudin. 

A recent public reading of Ezekiel struck my soul, for the helplessness, hopelessness, and futile life without Christ, and at that moment, I was cut to the quick or wrecked by my own heartless, faithless, and listless prayers ever for those who are without Christ. In tears and public, I wept, repented, and prayed, oh Lord Jesus Christ, wake up my dull heart to pray for Thy salvation to spread. And...

“I have received so many tokens for good from God in this matter, that it were a shame indeed if I did not trust in Him to perfect all which concerns me.” Robert Murray M’Cheyne, I pray God is merciful to all of you even more than He has been to me. And since He bids me seek His face, Believe His Word and trust His grace, I'll cast on Him my every care, And wait for thee, sweet hour of prayer!" As...