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Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. Why this particular podcast? Have you ever been reading through the Bible or listening to a sermon And thought to yourself, Man, what a great life David or Barnabas, the apostle John, had? Perhaps even the "son of thunder," James? His life was very short, but what a great life. James lived by faith, and he lived it in power as well. Have you ever ...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. Okay, a few days off did not help my mic discipline! Having answered the question, Why a Podcast on Prayer? We now turn to Why this podcast? The worst part of the pandemic for me was seeing the fear in people's eyes. Living in fear is no way to live. One encounter with a terrified young mother illustrates the same empathy your podcast princi...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.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 t...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. After some evaluation and review, we begin season 6 of the Free Range Preacher on Prayer podcast, asking, ç Having discussed our long conversation about prayer, which answers the question, "Why listen to a podcast exclusively about prayer? We lay out our goals for the coming year: 1. A more organic mix of episodes to meet our goal: "Exhor...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. After some evaluation and review, we begin season 6 of the Free Range Preacher on Prayer podcast, asking, "Why listen to a podcast exclusively about prayer? Good question for two reasons: There are many places to learn about prayer. You can read books, listen to sermons, follow prayer movements, find articles, and find prayer helps, such as ...

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...