Devotional Episodes

This is an episode from the past. (Different title) We have cleaned up the audio; thank You, Jesus! We walk and pray by faith. So important is faith to our Creator, Redeemer, and Sustainer, who repeats Himself, that the righteous walk by faith. Believing Him causes great rejoicing.. We rejoice and draw close to our Savior, the great I AM, as he strengthens our faith through the struggles of Jacob. We follow Jacob, who says: "…You have bereaved me of my children: Joseph is no more,...

When your host struggles in seasons of conviction of my sins, there is a pattern, and it is not is not joyful. There are two millstone attitudes that grind, this principal to discouragement. I tell myself, "I should be better than this," and "I am failing in the worthy walk." Neither of these self-accusations brings me closer to obedience or joy; just the opposite is true. Neither helps me love God more, either. You might say they are counterproductive. Confession and repentance i...

Today, we jump right into our devotion, "The testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple." Psalm 19:7b You will well say, "Fred, a bold claim from a simple mind." You know, patient family, that I claim no part of high intellect, in fact, "O Lord, my heart is not proud, nor my eyes haughty; Nor do I involve myself in great matters, Or in things too difficult for me," Psalm 131:1 is a near motto of my limitations. Yet… Knowing and seriously considering the word of God does not make ...

We highlight Australia and Spain as long-term listeners today, and we thank you for being a part of our prayer family. Our devotional today is again from Psalm 19. The nature of God's word as fitting to His will is clear from Psalm 19:7-11. The Psalm begins with David's assertion, moved by the Holy Spirit: The law of the LORD is perfect, restoring the soul; How can it be said, "The Law of the Lord is perfect, restoring the soul?" The answer comes in the New Testament: Peter testifies in Ac...

Welcome Jamaica and The Dominican Republic today, and welcome you to contact us at: www.freerangeprayer@gmail.com Or www.freerangepreacheronprayer.com Then we learn from Mary, a practice that brings us blessings and strength as we store up the memories of the people God has privileged us to know. Knowing what a true, profound blessing they are. "But Mary treasured up all these things, pondering them in her heart." Luke 2:19 "And He went down with them, and came to Nazareth; and He continu...

(If you're sad, confused, and unsure what the Lord is doing in your life right now, this is the episode for you.) Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.freersangpreacheronprayer.com and use the Donations tab. Thank you, Ireland, for listening, and we are thanking David, Michael, and Mr. Or Mrs anonymous for your recent donations. I know what you are going to say. I do, and not because I am clairvoyant, not sure if that is a word, I think I...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.freersangpreacheronprayer.com and use the Donations tab. God tells us in Romans that all men, through the created universe and our moral consciences, that there is a creator God. As creatures, we cannot fully understand our Creator. We are further hindered in our apprehension of God by our fallen nature. The Bible is God’s revelation of Himself to us. We would not know He could be to us, as David says,...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.freersangpreacheronprayer.com and use the Donations tab. When we have those days, we need to remember His promises. (Another reason to know His word.) When Jacob left his family, God made him several promises. Jacob's response (unbelievable to me) was if You do what You say, then you can be my God. By the time he came home, he had changed. Hearing Esau and 400 of his men were coming, he humbled himsel...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.freersangpreacheronprayer.com and use the Donations tab. At first blush, no one likes it when we have “one of those days.” However, we need “those days” because the general nature of our sin is thinking we are the center of everything going on. Throughout history, one wag, or several wags, put it something like this: Every person is the hero of their own life. What God calls us to is: “Do nothing from...

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 accompli...

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 Ministr...

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 glad...

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...

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...

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 o...

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,...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. Fallback positions of faith, are keys to our confidence in Christ, confidence in our God as we from those fallback positions, the places we fallback to when we need rest and to regather our plans in Christ. Today we look at the seminal nature of gratitude for our greatest gift. Mark 8 recounts Jesus’ declaration of the eternal importance of reconciliation with...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. Fallback reason for gratitude to God part three. Over the years, in the seasons, I struggled with being sad and wondering about the will of God. I found myself not thinking I had much to thank God for. Realistically, I had nothing to thank God for. As foolish as that was, I needed to develop some fallback positions from which I could, by faith, give God thanks....

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. Remembering the first time I said to myself in a sermon, "How did that pastor know what I was thinking?" After an exhaustive look at the Christian reasons for thanksgiving, John MacArthur said if you don't feel any gratitude right now in your life, surely you have loved ones, and you have reason to be thankful to God for how He works in their lives. Wow, that b...

Season 6! Thank You, Jesus! Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. I am glad to be back in the paddock where we can begin our sixth season of the Free Range Preacher on Prayer, and we do so appropriately with a few episodes of gratitude. Our call to be a thankful family is a universal call. Today, we look at the Biblical mandate to be thankful: "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven agains...

After the visit of my son-in-law Derek and my daughter Casaundra, chop liver compared to Seven, Lincoln, French, and Freddie, my grandbabies, my heart was full, and I was convicted over how I let the myriad mercies go by almost unnoticed. After this break, we begin with a prayer based on Psalm 33. A prayer of renewal, joy, and worship of our Holy God, Savior, Comforter, refuge, and strength. Psalm 33:20 "Our soul waits for the LORD; He is our help and our shield. 21 For our heart rejoices in ...

Sound consistency changes? Pray on patient friends. Romans 12:1-2 I urge you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. To pray the will of God is every Christian's goal; we grow into that goal, as we...

In 1951, “Nature, Man, and God” by Willian Temple was published much later than I thought. In this book, the finest description of the heart of true Christian worship can be found: “Quicken your conscience with the Holiness of God. Feed your mind with the Word of God.
Purge your imagination with the Beauty of God. Open your heart with the Love of God. Devote you will to the Purpose of God.” The verbatim prayer I pray each day, and add: “Teach me today of Thee Thyself. Help me to live:
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Five minutes of truth is our food for inexhaustible hope, peace, and comfort. Bless the LORD, O my soul, And forget none of His benefits; 3 Who pardons all your iniquities; Who heals all your diseases; 4 Who redeems your life from the pit; Who crowns you with lovingkindness and compassion; 5 Who satisfies your years with good things, So that your youth is renewed like the eagle. Psalm 103:2-5 Our soul humble Church knows it very well, "Wonderful are Thy works, And my soul knows it very well....