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Welcome your excellencies!



Thank you, Michael, river boat Mike, and California Dave for your recent donations.

Thanks you and others we have distributed 50 “The Foundation Blocks of Biblical Prayer.”



We also welcome officially, Canada, The United Kingdom, and the Philippines. (Y’all have been here a long while, but we have just begun to acknowledge our listeners.)



The answer to the question “Does God need our prayers?” Culminates in the glorious truth, that in His mysterious will, God does not need us but He conendsends to appoint us as ambassadors for Christ!



“Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were entreating through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. 21 He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.?

2 Corinthians 5:20



We cover briefly how and why ambassadors get their jobs, the trust they are given, and the responsibility they have to the king who sent them.



Then through Paul, Timothy, Epaphroditus, Euodia, Syntyche, and Clement (it may be worth the listen to hear my pronunciation of those names.) we see the duty, glory excellency, and privilege of being ambassadors to the King of kings and Lord of lords.



"What a man is on his knees before God, that he is and nothing more."

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

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Season 006

Episode 42

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Today, we give mad props to our listeners in South Africa (that's a good thing!). After that, we discuss:



"The Prayer Warrior's Journal" was born from an effort to set fire to my worship in prayer. Conviction also came from a fuller worship. I was convicted that I was ignoring three very specific prayer requests from the most important person in my life: The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

You can find out exactly, if not exhaustively, where God asks us to pray for the spread of the gospel, our spiritual leaders, and our dreaded (at times) governmental leaders in today's episode.



As in all things, the Bible guides us even in our prayers so we might fulfill,

Matthew 6:33

"But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added to you. 34 "Therefore do not be anxious for tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."



"What a man is on his knees before God, that he is and nothing more."

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

Assistant Editor: Seven Jefferson Gossard

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Season 006

Episode 41

(If you're sad, confused, and unsure what the Lord is doing in your life right now, this is the episode for you.)



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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 heard it in a Bugs Bunny cartoon, but because God tells us how He works in His word.



I know what you are going to say. I really do, before you say it, and no matter how sad you might be in this moment, or have been for a long season, how empty you may be feeling, and how dark your circumstances are, I do know what you are going to say.



I don't know when, but I do know what you are going to say.



As Moses says in Exodus 5:22

"Then Moses returned to the LORD and said, "O Lord, why hast Thou brought harm to this people? Why didst Thou ever send me? 23 "Ever since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Thy name, he has done harm to this people; and Thou hast not delivered Thy people at all."

For several years, I prayed similarly;

"Turn Thy gaze away from me, that I may smile again, Before I depart and am no more."

Psalm 39:13



Our so what?

Because God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, one day you will smile again and say:

"Who is like Thee among the gods, O LORD? Who is like Thee, majestic in holiness, Awesome in praises, working wonders? 12 "Thou didst stretch out Thy right hand, The earth swallowed them.

Exodus 15:11



Such is our God; take heart in the midst of sorrow, and you will rejoice when God brings you the victory you need.



O satisfy us in the morning with Thy lovingkindness, That we may sing for joy and be glad all our days. 15 Make us glad according to the days Thou hast afflicted us, And the years we have seen evil. 16 Let Thy work appear to Thy servants, And Thy majesty to their children.

Psalm 90:14-16 (Moses)



"What a man is on his knees before God, that he is and nothing more."

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

Assistant Editor: Seven Jefferson Gossard

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Season 006

Episode 40

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Anything and everything in life worth doing begins as a discipline before it produces intrinsic joy.



Prayer is the same. It takes time, effort, and dedication to learn to truly commune with Holy God during our sojourn on earth.



I guarantee little on the podcast because God works in mysterious ways. His will is not set before us in an a, b, c fashion. Our relationship and Christian life are dynamic because our God is dynamic.



Our so what:

One thing I guarantee is that as we are dedicated to prayer and drawing near to God, the discipline of prayer will become the delight of our souls.



Even the agonizing prayer of the bondslave of Colossians 4, who was “always laboring earnestly for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God.” Colossians 4:12



"Delight yourself in the LORD; And He will give you the desires of your heart. 5 Commit your way to the LORD, Trust also in Him, and He will do it."

Psalm 37:4-5

Thank You, Jesus!



"What a man is on his knees before God, that he is and nothing more."

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

Assistant Editor: Seven Jefferson Gossard

Dialogue with us at:

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Season 006

Episode 39

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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, “Behold, God is my helper; The Lord is the sustainer of my soul.”

Psalm 54:4, unless He revealed it to us.



Today, we meditate on

The Father:

“I Love Thee, O LORD, my strength.” 2 The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. 3 I call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised, And I am saved from my enemies.

Psalm 18:1-3

The Son:

“I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2 “Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it, that it may bear more fruit. 3 “You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4 “Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in Me. 5 “I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me, and I in him, he bears much fruit; for apart from Me you can do nothing.”

John 15: 1-5

The Holy Spirit”

“For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. 11 For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things freely given to us by God, 13 which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words. 14 But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised. 15 But he who is spiritual appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no man. 16 For WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, THAT HE SHOULD INSTRUCT HIM? But we have the mind of Christ.

2 Corinthians 2:10-16



So What

Ponder for ourselves what a marvelous refuge our God is. Our strength and refuge are from the Father. Our power and leading are from the Son. Finally, our understanding of His word is by the Holy Spirit.



"What a man is on his knees before God, that he is and nothing more."

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

Assistant Editor: Seven Jefferson Gossard

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Season 006

Episode 38

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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 ways God gives us proper perspective, we examine 4 passages today.

1.. Did God need Israel?

"…The LORD did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any of the peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples, 8 but because the LORD loved you and kept the oath which He swore to your forefathers, the LORD brought you out by a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt."

Deuteronomy 7:6-8

2. Did God need Elijah?

"…Yet I will leave 7,000 in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal and every mouth that has not kissed him…"

1 Kings 19:15-19

3. Does God need what we have?

"…I shall take no young bull out of your house, Nor male goats out of your folds. 10 "For every beast of the forest is Mine, The cattle on a thousand hills. 11 "I know every bird of the mountains, And everything that moves in the field is Mine. 12 "If I were hungry, I would not tell you; For the world is Mine, and all it contains…"

Psalm 105:7-15

4. Did God need Paul?

"…What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed; and in this I rejoice, yes, and I will rejoice…"

Philippians 1:15-18



The whole Bible testifies of the self-sufficiency of The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

There was nothing intrinsic to Israel, Elijah, anyone on earth, nor the Apostle Paul which God Almighty, Immortal, Invisible Creator of the universe them, has any need of.



One of the principles of the calling of God is expressed by Paul:

"For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of, for I am under compulsion; for woe is me if I do not preach the gospel. 17 For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward; but if against my will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me."

1 Corinthians 10:16-17

Beloved, we have the great privilege of being called to work for the Kingdom and the spread of the Kingdom. And we will look at the remarkable kindness of our callings, but today:



Our so what?

God does not need us, yet He has appointed us as ambassadors for Christ, an honor, privilege, and responsibility.

Our duties?

Use the gifts we have been given with diligence, passion, and great thanksgiving, relying on His word, power, and direction to be servants, being faithful if it is 10, 5, or 1 in number.

Thank You, Jesus!



"What a man is on his knees before God, that he is and nothing more."

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

Assistant Editor: Seven Jefferson Gossard

Dialogue with us at:

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Season 006

Episode 37