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Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.freersangpreacheronprayer.com and use the Donations tab. Before we get to the privilege and blessings of using our Spiritual gifts in the body of the true church of Christ, we look one last time at whether or not God needs our Prayers. Biblically, as we have mentioned before, our actual plumb line or correct code, in the present idiom, is the Holy word of God alone. Sampling from the various and sundry...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.freersangpreacheronprayer.com and use the Donations tab. We are back to the paddock and to look at the question, "Does God need our prayers?" We began with "Truths to Ponder." Discussed our need to "rightly divide the word of God." Today, we examine the dangers of assigning to God any motivation He has not expressly stated in His word. His thoughts are not our thoughts: "For My thoughts are not your...

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.freersangpreacheronprayer.com and use the Donations tab. We are again back in the paddock, looking at the real-time issue of God's "need" for us. For the first 6:59 of this episode, we celebrate our increased dialogue and our first listener donations. After the 6:59 minutes of celebration, we begin to lay the groundwork in our Biblical evidence that God does not "need" our prayers. Still, He gives us (...

We begin a new feature on the podcast, Real-Time Issues in Prayer. It is one of the ways we have become more interactive. All who listen have questions or comments so that we can consider them in the real-time thread. We now have three ways to contact us with your thoughts: www.freerangepreacheronprayer.com, freerangeprayer@gmail.com and responses to our questions on Spotify We begin with a thought that seems to be in the present-day zeitgeist: "Does God really need our prayers...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.freerangepreacheronprayer.com and use the Donations tab. 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 arms of...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.freersangpreacheronprayer.com and use the Donations tab. Today began as a sad, bewildering day for the podcast's principal. My fleshly mind and inner man battled all morning over going to church. The Holy Spirit won. We had a guest preacher who immediately drew me in, confessing he listens to (reads) primarily dead men. By the end of the sermon, God's providential timing, Psalm 25, and my prayers came...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.freersangpreacheronprayer.com and use the Donations tab. Spiritual Fathers: "I am writing to you, fathers, because you know Him who has been from the beginning." 1 John 2:13 We get hints about the "possible" content of fathers in the faith? "Through Him then, let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that give thanks to His name. 16 And do not neglect doing ...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.freersangpreacheronprayer.com and use the Donations tab. Using 1 John 2:12-14, we discuss the general stages of maturity, children, young men, and fathers. We have seen examples of my childish prayers, and then we say the critical need to ask God to teach us His word in our younger maturity; today we see fathers, or spiritually mature, know most intimately the Father. It takes maturity to obey the most...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.freersangpreacheronprayer.com and use the Donations tab. Our website: www.freerangepreacheronprayer.com Our first ever commercial… such as it is. In the last several months, through the providence of others, I have been reminded of the first direction of my calling. That direction was the development of tools for fostering our prayer lives. That vision was for journals to spur us ahead. Today, we int...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.freersangpreacheronprayer.com and use the Donations tab. Back in the Paddock, examining what we can expect of our growing prayer lives. We say the last episode on growth, John in 1 John 2 spiritually speaking, there are children, young men, and fathers. (The Biblical language here is inclusive. Both sexes are included in his exhortation and description.) Today, we examine our "young men" phase in spiri...

We begin a new feature on the podcast, Real-Time Issues in Prayer. It is one of the ways we have become more interactive. All who listen have questions or comments so that we can consider them in the real-time thread. We now have three ways to contact us with your thoughts: www.freerangepreacheronprayer.com, freerangeprayer@gmail.com and responses to our questions on Spotify We begin with a thought that seems to be in the present-day zeitgeist: "Does God really need our prayers?" In our in...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.freersangpreacheronprayer.com and use the Donations tab. Welcome back… We begin with an apology for the delay, and one because I gave some less than accurate information in the last episode. So thank you for your patience, and Jesus did indeed rebuke John and Andrew when they spoke of calling down fire on an unwelcoming village. It seemed a gentle rebuke reminding them of the gentle nature of His kingd...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. Our tagline for the last five years is not to encourage, exhort, and perhaps educate (a little) on the type of prayer life that lifts our affections to the abundant life and glorifies God. Today, we look to the apostle John for the Biblical stages he gives us in spiritual growth in general, and then apply those stages to prayer. John outl...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. New web address! - www.freerangepreacheronprayer.com (long but memorable) Today, we consider the questions asked in installment 1 of this episode: What does it look like to love the Lord with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength? How can we love someone so much if we rarely or never interact, talk to, or converse with them? The first is open-ended, and t...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab What is prayer? We expand our definition of prayer a little bit, for we do have a history together. Prayer is talking to God, and thats how we begin. It is talking to God, however, with the purpose of flowering our talks into conversation. We consider two passages today, and two questions. Our passages: “And this is eternal life, that they may know Thee, the...

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. It doesn't matter where we begin to pray, but that we start to pray. Gratitude alone will not sustain our prayer lives. Our needs will not maintain our prayers. Being told we ought to pray will not sustain our prayer lives. The answer to those prayers is not the answer; our relationship with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is getting to know Him and knowing t...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. It doesn't matter where we begin to pray, but that we start to pray. Gratitude alone will not sustain our prayer lives. Our needs will not maintain our prayers. Being told we ought to pray will not sustain our prayer lives. The answer to those prayers is not the answer; our relationship with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is getting to know Him and knowing t...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. It doesn't matter where we begin to pray, but that we start to pray. Gratitude alone will not sustain our prayer lives. Our needs will not maintain our prayers. Being told we ought to pray will not sustain our prayer lives. The answer to those prayers is not the answer; our relationship with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is getting to know Him and knowing t...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. We have looked at the three main reasons, from my experience and observations, Christians begin to pray. We then asked: Do you remember your first prayers? Of the three reasons given: Do you see any weaknesses in those prayers? (In the context of developing a consistent prayer life) Which one was not like the others? In this installmen...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. We want to look at the big picture of Biblical prayer. When we begin with the parts of prayer, we usually set ourselves up for a longer and more difficult road to our growing, Biblical, dynamic, sincere, and soup-satisfying, God-glorifying prayer life. I have observed three ways Christians typically begin to work on the art of prayer. Today, we...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. We want to look at the big picture of Biblical prayer. When we begin with the parts of prayer, we usually set ourselves up for a longer and more difficult road to our growing, Biblical, dynamic, sincere, and soup-satisfying, God-glorifying prayer life. I have observed three ways Christians typically begin to work on the art of prayer. Today, we see those ways ...