Free Range Preacher on Prayer

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...

“Affliction is the forge where He softens the iron heart.” I have often heard, “If God is so good, why doesn’t He answer every prayer yes? Most of those same parents who have accused the goodness of God undermine themselves instinctively when they keep the stove, knives, poisons under the sink, etc., et al. from their young children. We also know we cannot become the useful servants of God without...

“I live in the Spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk about, when I lie down, and when I rise up, and the answers are always coming.” Once again, I am reminded of how far I have to go in my prayer life. If Rutherford was the sweetest of whom you ever will hear, then Muller may be the most full of faith. He is a man who lived to showcase the God who hearth prayers and the God who answereth blessings. A...

I never knew how weak I was till now, when He hidest Himself, and when I have Him to seek seven times a day. I am a dry and withered branch and a piece of dead carcass, dry bones, and not able to step over a straw. The thoughts of my old sins are as the summons of death to me, and of late, my brother’s case hath stricken me to the heart. A more tender soul you will never read about, nor will we me...

“If the Lord be with us, we have no cause to fear. His eye is upon us. His arm is over us. His ear is open to our prayer, His grace is sufficient, his promise unchanging.” For the child of God, Resting in the everlasting arms means there is no fear for us. Our Savior never loses sight of us. He is at the right hand of the Father directing our help, He is ever listening to our cries, and above all,...

“Those who know God best are the ones who speak to Him most.” John 17:3 “And this is eternal life, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent. We flourish in our earthly friendships the more we listen and talk to those we love. Listen through the word… daily. Talk in prayer… daily. And since He bids me seek His face, Believe His Word and trust His grace, I'll...

"The best way of manifesting affection to our friends is by praying and giving thanks for them." Thank You, Jesus, for the gifts of my beloved friends. 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!" Assistant Editor: Seven Jefferson Gossard freerangeprayer@gmail.com Facebook - Free Range Preacher M...

Pastor Brooks begins with: Cold prayers bespeak a denial, but fervent prayers offer a sacred violence both to heaven and earth. He continues: Look! as in a painted fire there is no heat; so in a cold prayer there is no heat, no warmth, no omnipotency, no devotion, no blessing. Cold prayers are like arrows without heads, as swords without edges, as birds without wings: they pierce not, they cut not...

The ultimate test of the Christian life is the amount of time we give to prayer. - Dr. Martin Lloyd Jones This could have been a “What He Said” episode. As you listen, ponder not just the questions and answers posited, but what else it might mean, testing our faith by our prayers. 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...

We know everything about that which we can do nothing about, and we don't know anything about that which we can do something about. I mentioned it did not matter when Neil Postman wrote those sentences. If it was only a day and a half ago, it is worse now than when he wrote them. The great news is, we have instant and daily access to the One who can change what we cannot, and we have the God who k...

The sweetest prayers God ever hears are the groans and sighs of those who have no hope in anything, but His love. Teach us to come to You when we don't feel like it and when we're hurting. When we're again, like a dried-up piece of pottery, hear our prayers, renew us in your time and in your Providence so that we can glorify you, and tell the world of what you have done for our souls. Thank you, J...