October Surprise October Seventh, 2023 - A Call to Spiritual Spontaneity.

Our mentor over this last year, J.C. Ryle, and his book, "A Call to Prayer," bring us another challenge, which your host has failed many times. Rightly are we warned: "I commend to you the importance of praying spiritually. I mean by that, that we should labor always to have the direct help of the Spirit in our prayers, and beware above all things of formality. There is nothing so spiritual but that it may become a form, and this is specially true of private prayer." Wow, and that is true. I have to confess, finding sometimes I mindlessly pray through a Psalm. Most of the time, I catch myself, but I cannot say in good conscience I have never, by rote, prayed a Psalm. "Lord, calm my heart, and center my mind to seek Thy power in prayer," is how I often begin my closet prayer. Beloved family, let God the Holy Spirit lead you in every prayer. If you have a plan when you come to our Savior, and He leads your heart to another concern, give in to His leading, and pray in submission to the Holy Ghost, genuinely from your heart, mind, and soul, then you can return as He leads once you've exhausted His request. "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 [email protected] 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 [email protected] Our podcast art was designed by @sammmmmmmmm23 Instagram Season 005 Episode 101