Free Range Preacher on Prayer

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  1. 11H AGO

    Devotional 137 - Season 8 - Time Well Spent

    I know God has a sense of humor! Case in point, David, alone, isolated in the midst of great sorrow and regret, says: “For there is no one who regards me; There is no escape for me; No one cares for my soul. 5 I cried out to Thee, O LORD; I said, “Thou art my refuge, My portion in the land of the living. 6 “Give heed to my cry, For I am brought very low; Deliver me from my persecutors, For they are too strong for me.” Psalm 142:4-6 We can feel the angst of David, and how does God answer him?” “So David departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam; and when his brothers and all his father’s household heard of it, they went down there to him. 2 And everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented, gathered to him; and he became captain over them. Now there were about four hundred men with him.” 1 Samuel 22:1-2 Now, that makes me chuckle, because I can imagine myself saying to God. “Really, this is your answer to my prayer? Now I’m the captain of 400 distressed, indebted, and discontent people? This is all I need!” This crew of ne’er-do-wells became the “Mighty Men of Valor!” (You can review their exploits in 2 Samuel 23:8-37.) They became so because their captain was a warrior, brave, faithful, Strong, full of faith, close to God, and when necessary deeply repentant. Our So What? Spend your time in the Bible, acquainting yourself with so great a cloud of witnesses and Jesus, our captain. You will be inspired to be like them. “Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance, and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you may not grow weary and lose heart.” Hebrews 12:1-3 Brethren, let’s pray for one another. “Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever.” Amen 1 Timothy 1:17 ”What a man is on his knees before God, that he is and nothing more." Robert Murray M'Cheynee Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.freerangepreacheronprayer.com and use the Donations tab. Assistant Editor: Seven Jefferson Gossard. www.freerangepreacheronprayer.com freerangeprayer@gmail.com Facebook - Free Range Preacher Ministries Instagram: freerangeministries All our Scripture quotes are drawn from the NASB 1977 edition. For access to the voice-over services of Richard Durrington, please visit RichardDurrington.com or email him at Durringtonr@gmail.com Our podcast art was designed by @sammmmmmmmm23 on Instagram Season 008 Episode 029

    9 min

  2. 2D AGO

    Devotional 137 - Season 8 - Key to the Abundant Life. (no not that one.)

    Back in the. Paddock, we consider my Biblical mentor, David. We know the first two indicators of people we will like are 1. Are they like us? The second is, do we admire them and want to be like them? Hence, David, how do you become a “man after God’s own heart?” How did David become that believer after God’s own heart? He listened to God. Now these are the last words of David. “David, the son of Jesse, declares, And the man who was raised on high declares, The anointed of the God of Jacob, And the sweet psalmist of Israel, 2 “The Spirit of the LORD spoke by me, And His word was on my tongue.” 2 Samuel 23:1-2 He says his life. “Is as the light of the morning when the sun rises, A morning without clouds, When the tender grass springs out of the earth, Through sunshine after rain. 5 “Truly is not my house so with God? For He has made an everlasting covenant with me, Ordered in all things, and secured; For all my salvation and all my desire, Will He not indeed make it grow?” 2 Samuel 23:4-5 He talked to God: “Give ear to my words, O Lord, Consider my groaning. 2 Heed the sound of my cry for help, my King and my God, For to Thee do I pray. 3 In the morning, O LORD, Thou wilt hear my voice; In the morning I will order my prayer to Thee and eagerly watch.” Psalm 5:1-3 “As for me, I shall call upon God, And the LORD will save me. 17 Evening and morning and at noon, I will complain and murmur, And He will hear my voice. 18 He will redeem my soul in peace from the battle which is against me, For they are many who strive with me.” Psalm 55:16-17 “Seven times a day I praise Thee, Because of Thy righteous ordinances. 165 Those who love Thy law have great peace, And nothing causes them to stumble.” Psalm 119:164-165 Our So What? Seek God in prayer. (It's never too late to begin.) Brethren, let’s pray for one another. “Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever.” Amen 1 Timothy 1:17 ”What a man is on his knees before God, that he is and nothing more." Robert Murray M'Cheynee Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.freerangepreacheronprayer.com and use the Donations tab. Assistant Editor: Seven Jefferson Gossard. www.freerangepreacheronprayer.com freerangeprayer@gmail.com Facebook - Free Range Preacher Ministries Instagram: freerangeministries All our Scripture quotes are drawn from the NASB 1977 edition. For access to the voice-over services of Richard Durrington, please visit RichardDurrington.com or email him at Durringtonr@gmail.com Our podcast art was designed by @sammmmmmmmm23 on Instagram Season 008 Episode 028

    12 min

  3. 4D AGO

    Jesus and His Disciples - Conversation and Prayer. 014 - An Astonishing Conversation - The Woman at the Well. - A Consequential Conversation. - Two Minds.

    Our Family focus today is the nation of Germany, and it begins at 17:23. Thank you all, our German family, you have an intriguing history, and we are glad you listen. As we are reminded to pray, God will reveal wonderful things from His law, we pick up the end ofJesus’ conversation with the woman at the well in the region of Samaria. We are introduced to two different reactions to this astonishing conversation. The glorious response. The woman left Jesus, and His disciples completely changed. We see her now as a bubbling spring of water to eternal life. The people she once shied away from now rushed back to see Jesus because of her testimony. On the other hand: The mundane response. The disciples, whom we will see more of next time, marveled at but asked no questions about Jesus's conversation with this woman, and were so absorbed by their lunch that they missed the throng asking Jesus to stay with them. Our So What? We enter the throne room expectantly in the presence of our King. We listen attentively to the word given to us by our King. We react correctly, striving not to miss our King’s desire. We depart joyfully, seeing our King’s work. In this case, the salvation of souls. We pray, “Open my eyes, that I may behold Wonderful things from Thy law.” Psalm 119:18 With humble thanks to John Piper and Alistair Begg, who greatly informed this episode. Brethren, let’s pray for one another. “Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever.” Amen 1 Timothy 1:17 ”What a man is on his knees before God, that he is and nothing more." Robert Murray M'Cheynee Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.freerangepreacheronprayer.com and use the Donations tab. Assistant Editor: Seven Jefferson Gossard. www.freerangepreacheronprayer.com freerangeprayer@gmail.com Facebook - Free Range Preacher Ministries Instagram: freerangeministries All our Scripture quotes are drawn from the NASB 1977 edition. For access to the voice-over services of Richard Durrington, please visit RichardDurrington.com or email him at Durringtonr@gmail.com Our podcast art was designed by @sammmmmmmmm23 on Instagram Season 008 Episode 027

    21 min

  4. 6D AGO

    Jesus and His Disciples - Conversation and Prayer. 014 - An Astonishing Conversation - The Woman at the Well. - The Changed Heart of the Matter

    We’re caught up! - to December 2025. We beg the question, “What is time to a Neurodivergent? We finish up with the woman at the well, and her astonishing conversation with the Savior of the world. The importance of the eternal over the temporal. Mark 8:36 “For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul? “Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day. 17 For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, 18 while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.” 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 “Therefore also we have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him.” 2 Corinthians 5:9 “But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added to you.” Matthew 6:33 The Holy Spirit gifts us each with the ability to help build up the church to be effective in spreading the gospel. Not all are evangelists, but all have, as this Samaritan found, a testimony. Our So What? Whatever else we lack, we have our testimony. The woman at the well forgot her water and went to tell the people she had avoided before: “So the woman left her waterpot, and went into the city, and *said to the men, 29 “Come, see a man who told me all the things that I have done; this is not the Christ, is it?” John 4:28-29 Or “Come and hear, all who fear God, And I will tell of what He has done for my soul.” Psalm 66:16 “Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.” Timothy 1:17 Brethren, let's pray for one another, "What a man is on his knees before God, that he is and nothing more." Robert Murray M'Cheynee Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.freerangepreacheronprayer.com and use the Donations tab. Assistant Editor: Seven Jefferson Gossard. www.freerangepreacheronprayer.com freerangeprayer@gmail.com Facebook - Free Range Preacher Ministries Instagram: freerangeministries All our Scripture quotes are drawn from the NASB 1977 edition. For access to the voice-over services of Richard Durrington, please visit RichardDurrington.com or email him at Durringtonr@gmail.com Our podcast art was designed by @sammmmmmmmm23 on Instagram Season 008 Episode 026 Nuts and Bolts begin at the 15:29 mark.

    16 min

  5. 6D AGO

    Jesus and His Disciples - Conversation and Prayer. 012 - An Astonishing Conversation - The Woman at the Well. - Sincere.

    Plans change; that might be a theme of this podcast, Jesus' conversations with people in the book of John. We want to explore possible applications. Today, being sincere is an import from Jesus and His conversation with the woman at the well in Samaria. When she answered, "I have no husband," she was not honest with Jesus. His answer, "you have well said," in the passage did several things: for her, it showed that Jesus was the one with the answers; and for us, it illustrates that we are not only honest with God. For a prayer life which glorifies God, and satisfies our souls, our sincerity with Him is our… Our So What? As we desire honesty from one another in conversation, God desires truth in our close communion with Him. (Even though we know He knows) True communion is sincere communion. "What a man is on his knees before God, that he is and nothing more." Robert Murray M'Cheynee Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.freerangepreacheronprayer.com and use the Donations tab. Assistant Editor: Seven Jefferson Gossard. www.freerangepreacheronprayer.com freerangeprayer@gmail.com Facebook - Free Range Preacher Ministries Instagram: freerangeministries All our Scripture quotes are drawn from the NASB 1977 edition. For access to the voice-over services of Richard Durrington, please visit RichardDurrington.com or email him at Durringtonr@gmail.com Our podcast art was designed by @sammmmmmmmm23 on Instagram Season 007 Episode 024

    15 min

  6. APR 22

    Jesus and His Disciples - Conversation and Prayer. 013 - An Astonishing Conversation - The Woman at the Well. - The Heart of the Matter

    Jesus meets a woman at a well; this event gets right to the point. Our lives are much more than what we see physically, and the real existential threat is not to our earthly lives, but to our eternal souls. So critical is this truth that Jesus brings up what the woman would not say. "Go, call your husband, and come here." What unfolded next led the woman to the spiritual. "The woman *said to Him, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet." Verse 19 of John 4. The point of this conversation: "Jesus *said to her, "Woman, believe Me, an hour is coming when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall you worship the Father. 22 "You worship that which you do not know; we worship that which we know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 "But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. 24 "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth." John 4:17-20 Our So What? Praying for the physical is part of the call we have, but as we mature in our communion with Almighty God, our concerns will shift from the physical to the spiritual. "What a man is on his knees before God, that he is and nothing more." Robert Murray M'Cheynee Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.freerangepreacheronprayer.com and use the Donations tab. Assistant Editor: Seven Jefferson Gossard. www.freerangepreacheronprayer.com freerangeprayer@gmail.com Facebook - Free Range Preacher Ministries Instagram: freerangeministries All our Scripture quotes are drawn from the NASB 1977 edition. For access to the voice-over services of Richard Durrington, please visit RichardDurrington.com or email him at Durringtonr@gmail.com Our podcast art was designed by @sammmmmmmmm23 on Instagram Season 008 Episode 025

    17 min

  7. APR 20

    Jesus and His Disciples - Conversation and Prayer. 011 - An Astonishing Conversation - The Woman at the Well. - Spiritual/Physical.

    Review of the woman at the well from John 4. We begin today with a prayer for our brothers and sisters in Russia and Ukraine. Most of all, a worldwide revival might even start there, in the midst of turmoil. The conversation in John 4 is as astonishing as our prayers. To the woman, a Jew talking to a Samaritan woman was unthinkable. The holy God of the universe initiating communion with us is just as inconceivable. Yet He does: Moses sees the burning bush; the Hebrews tell us He has spoken in various and sundry ways. At one point, all I knew of the Bible was Romans 6:23, from a billboard. Hebrews also tells us that He is now speaking to us through His Son. "in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world. 3 And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power. When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high; 4 having become as much better than the angels, as He has inherited a more excellent name than they." Hebrews 1:2-4 And as Jesus is turning the woman from water to eternal life, He tells us in this passage: "…made purification of sins…" Eternity is His message. Our So What? We ask this question:  Knowing that the spiritual is so much more critical than the physical. How might that change the content of our prayers? "What a man is on his knees before God, that he is and nothing more." Robert Murray M'Cheynee Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.freerangepreacheronprayer.com and use the Donations tab. Assistant Editor: Seven Jefferson Gossard. www.freerangepreacheronprayer.com freerangeprayer@gmail.com Facebook - Free Range Preacher Ministries Instagram: freerangeministries All our Scripture quotes are drawn from the NASB 1977 edition. For access to the voice-over services of Richard Durrington, please visit RichardDurrington.com or email him at Durringtonr@gmail.com Our podcast art was designed by @sammmmmmmmm23 on Instagram Season 008 Episode 023

    14 min

  8. APR 19

    Devotional 135 - Season 8 - Created for Relationship

    In the United States, we face a loneliness problem. With all our communication tools, we lack true community skills. (In the olden days, we called that koinonia, having all things in common.) This need for connection is evident even in the story of creation itself. Genesis 3:8ff teaches that God communed with Adam and Eve in a natural relationship. Further, we need each other. “Then the LORD God said, 'It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.” “And the LORD God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.” Genesis 2:22 Sin, vanity, egocentrism, and self-absorption keep us from one of our greatest needs: community. The result is that we hide from God and hide our intimate selves from one another. I’m tempted to ask, “How’s that going for ya?” Thankfully, in Christ, Colossians 9:12 sums up God's solution: "giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in light." Colossians 9:12 Our So What? Our daily prayers show gratitude to our Father for restoring our relationship with Him and with others, reminding us that we are created for community within the family He has adopted us into. “Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever.” Amen 1 Timothy 1:17 ”What a man is on his knees before God, that he is and nothing more." Robert Murray M'Cheynee Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.freerangepreacheronprayer.com and use the Donations tab. Assistant Editor: Seven Jefferson Gossard. www.freerangepreacheronprayer.com freerangeprayer@gmail.com Facebook - Free Range Preacher Ministries Instagram: freerangeministries All our Scripture quotes are drawn from the NASB 1977 edition. For access to the voice-over services of Richard Durrington, please visit RichardDurrington.com or email him at Durringtonr@gmail.com Our podcast art was designed by @sammmmmmmmm23 on Instagram Season 008 Episode 027

    9 min
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