Free Range Preacher on Prayer

These episodes are a little hard for me. It is hard for me to not input into them at all, and we basically read the Psalm to learn from David, the sweet Psalmist of Israel (2 Samuel 23:1) the art of prayer and worship. While knowing you can read the Psalm for yourself, it is good to worship together culminating with verse 14: "Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be acceptable...

We asked, What else might daily reliance on God for Bread Teach Us? Contentment is the answer. The Author tells us what that looks like. "Two things I asked of Thee, Do not refuse me before I die: 8 Keep deception and lies far from me, Give me neither poverty nor riches; Feed me with the food that is my portion, 9 Lest I be full and deny Thee and say, "Who is the LORD?" Or lest I be in want and st...

We began our October Surprise with an antidotal story of a prayer meeting I recently attended, and the content was 100 percent centered on health. Lest we think God does not care for the mundane, we come back to Matthew 6:9-12 "Pray, then, in this way: 'Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy name. 10 'Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, On earth as it is in heaven. 11 'Give us this day our...

Today, the Author of Scripture, through "the man after God's own heart," displays wondrous worship. "O Lord, our Lord, How majestic is Thy name in all the earth, Who hast displayed Thy splendor above the heavens! 2 From the mouth of infants and nursing babes Thou hast established strength, Because of Thine adversaries, To make the enemy and the revengeful cease. 3 When I consider Thy heavens, the...

My realization and confession for today, as I read the first instance that we know of, of Paul sending a missive with his prayer for a Church (1 & 2 Thessalonians seem to be his earliest letters), I was struck with how little time I take in gratitude for God's work in salvation for those I love. That is going to change. Our Passage 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10 in summary. What a list! Thanks and pra...

The Longer we are saved and take our faith seriously, the more our perception of God and His word changes it has to we are growing, 1 Peter 2:1 So, as we look at our passages this October, we are trying to stay out of the way and ask the following question: What does the Author of Scripture say, and how might His letter to us impact the content of our prayers? At the start of our October celebrati...

Does the Author of Scripture have any content for us as we pray for brothers and sisters we love, have lost contact with, and may never see again, and may never have met? :And when He saw the multitudes, He went up on the mountain; and after He sat down, His disciples came to Him. 2 And opening His mouth He began to teach them, saying, 3 "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom o...

As children of God, we are guided by the author of Scripture, and our Father leads us to a personal prayer. This same prayer, when extended to others, becomes a powerful tool of unity and connection in our spiritual community. This year, as in the previous two… Acts 20:24 "But I do not consider my life of any account as dear to myself, in order that I may finish my course, and the ministry which I...

Is it appropriate for one person, maybe you, to confess the corporate sins of your Christian culture? The Author of Scripture, moving on Daniel and Nehemiah, is worth listening to. "So I gave my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes. 4And I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed and said, "Alas, O Lord, the great and awesome God, who...

The truth is, I am not all that smart, but one thing I do know beyond all doubt is "And this is eternal life, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent." John 17:3 Nothing is better in the whole world, and our converse with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit also carries us through the deepest valleys. Thank You, Jesus! Our meditation for today: How might we ap...

Day 5 of our October Surprise 2024 One of my most tremendous encouragements to increasing my faith is: "For when God made the promise to Abraham, since He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself, 14 saying, 'I WILL SURELY BLESS YOU, AND I WILL SURELY MULTIPLY YOU.' 15 And thus, having patiently waited, he obtained the promise. 16 For men swear by one greater than themselves, and with th...

My best days are many times sleepless nights. God has often made the most resounding impact on His hard-headed slave -me- through sleepless nights wrestling with Him. This delayed episode is just one occasion of God's work on a dull hearer.  We will see how dangerous it is to believe we pray primarily to get what we want.  We follow Balak and Balaam as they persist in prayer, which is clearly...

Day 4 of our October Surprise! We saw yesterday Faith, Hope, and Love will Abide. They abide now and for eternity. How, though, do we know God, the God of the Bible, can bring about His glorious promises to us? Two witnesses today: 1. Power Unfathomable: The greatest injustice ever in the universe was the murder on the cross of Jesus the Messiah. The most glorious sacrifice ever given was Jesus' d...

Prayer is my personal testimony. Prayer brings us into a true fellowship and community, which, we like to say in my culture, brings us to a close bond with our holy God. He is Creator of the universe, which makes it awesome. He is our savior, which makes us humble and rejoicing; he's the sustainer of our lives, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. This podcast tells of all the mercies and joys God has gi...

Day 2 of our 2024 October Surprise: today, we trust the Holy Spirit to apply His word to our hearts, with minimum input from your host/principal. Our So What:? How might the following passages, given us by men moved by the Holy Spirit, inform our prayer concerns? "Many other signs, therefore, Jesus also performed in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; 31 but these ha...

"The Lord will deliver me from every evil deed, and will bring me safely to His heavenly kingdom; to Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen." 2 Timothy 4:18 This one verse helps us learn to pray as we walk through how using The Foundational Blocks of Biblical Prayer can lead us to find God, our circumstances, and how we might intercede to God for ourselves and others through a mega-comf...

Day 1 of our October surprise, this year, we focus on what the author of the Bible says to help sharpen our prayers. Our personal prayers and those we intercede for should be informed by the God-head, Biblically, the Holy Spirit. The witness of Scripture is that God should be the very heart of our lives, and we are designed and renewed to listen to the Holy Spirit for guidance in our prayers. The...

We kick off our introduction to our “October Surprise - 2024” by welcoming Romanian listeners and one other country to be named later. Thank you to all of you in Romania and all our new listeners. If we are to consider as serious, "Jesus answered, “The foremost is, ‘HEAR, O ISRAEL! THE LORD OUR GOD IS ONE LORD; 30 AND YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AN...

We are back today to be tutored again by the Holy Spirit in the art of prayer, as directed through The Foundational Blocks of Biblical Prayer. As we diligently seek conversation with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, we long today to find where God is, what of our lives we might find in, and how we might worship, confess, give thanks and request of our King, Savior, and Teacher through Psalm 102:1...

Growing - Encouragement and Edification (repub.) 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 a...

Welcome to our supplemental series on using and encouraging The Foundational Blocks of Biblical Prayer, a series of demonstrations using the Free Range Preacher's prayer journal. Reality: God's mercies have sustained me through this Christian sojourn through our conversation. The Foundational Blocks of Biblical Prayer lay the Biblical underpinnings for our converse with Holy God and then p...

Welcome to Portugal, the oldest nation in Europe, I have it on reliable information, and one of the movers in the Age of Discovery. We are glad you are listening! "Whatever Leads us to prayer is a good thing." One of the earliest sermons I read, as a novice Christian from Charles Spurgeon, and he included all manner of negative circumstances. We also include your hosts concerns. My confe...

Today, we highlight Brazil, a country with a fascinating history, and we learn one little thing about Dom Pedro I. More importantly, as I know a little of the countries where there are listeners to our podcast, I am amazed by the intricate web of the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ there really is. Thank you to all our listeners in Brazil! In part one on what a dynamic relationship, prayer life,...

We learn some surprising, to me facts about Qatar, and Bahrain! Eternal life is a dynamic life. "And this is eternal life, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent. The very fact that we are learning to know and apprehend our Creator and Savior is an active process and will be for all eternity. The import of our new life in Christ means it is a real rel...