Free Range Preacher on Prayer

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. This description by J.C. Ryle is so comprehensive and beautiful that no words of mine can add to them. Soak in the imitable words of our mentor. "I commend to you the importance of intercession in our prayers. We are all selfish by nature, and our selfishness is...

Today, our intercession is directed at our actual enemy, sin, death, and the devil. To my tribe first, with the events we have seen magnified dramatically since 2019, there can be no doubt, "The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can understand it?" Jeremiah 17:9 "how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation?" Hebrews 2:3a Convicted by...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. Once again, the faithful Bishop of Liverpool urges us not only to talk to God and to talk to God specifically about what is on our hearts, but he also invites us to thoughtful and honest time with our Savior. Day 20 of our October Surprise, looking at "A Call to...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. Today's episode is a call to contemplate our prayer lives and ask God if the words of J.C. Ryle have any message for us. J.C. Ryle "I commend to you the importance of fullness in prayer. I do not forget that our Lord warns us against the example of the Phari...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. Today's episode is a call to contemplate our prayer lives and ask God if the words of J.C. Ryle have any message for us. J.C. Ryle "I commend to you the importance of fullness in prayer. I do not forget that our Lord warns us against the example of the Phari...

Donation link:https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. J.C. Ryle is calling us today to a call to boldness. The type of boldness, I think, which believes in what we are calling for, and that God is listening, and that He will answer. More than those things, or on top of those things, is the boldness that calls us to know t...

Listener Support link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or visit www.frponprayer.com and click the donate button. Thank you Pastor Ryle told us on October fourteenth: The 119th Psalm is full of things asked, 'according to thy word.' Today, we are riffing off Psalm 119 and the verses which call out "according to Thy word." Let our souls be excited by a...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab at the top. (Our production software must still be fully compatible with the Apple update to make the sound clearer. I appreciate your patience.) Welcome to the Free Range Preacher on Prayer podcast. My name is Fred, and I am the podcast principal, and we are back in...

Praying by faith means praying expecting answers from the God who revealed to us, the fervent prayers of a righteous man accomplishes much. J.C. Ryle urges us to pray and expect to see the answers. “Above all, we should cultivate the habit of expecting answers to our prayers. We should do like the merchant who sends his ships to sea. We should not be satisfied, unless we see some return. Alas, the...

J.C. Ryle breaches two central concepts in praying with faith. Believing God hears and answers and: We are moved to pray His promises.  "I commend to you the importance of praying with faith. We should endeavor to believe that our prayers are heard, and that if we ask things according to God's will, we shall be answered. This is the plain command of our Lord Jesus Christ: "Whatsoever...

We are on the lucky October thirteenth and looking at praying with fiery passion. Realistic conversation with Almighty. J.C. Ryle tells us: "I commend to you the importance of earnestness in prayer. It is not necessary that a man should shout, or scream, or be very loud, in order to prove that he is in earnest." "It is the "effectual fervent" prayer that "availeth muc...

We ended in the eleventh, looking at our perseverance in prayer, noting here, so far, that Ryle is campaigning for our daily conversation with the Holy God. We begin today continuing on that theme, listening to Ryle as he says: “I do not maintain that prayers should always be of the same length; but I do say, let no excuse make you give up prayer.” And of course, once we get through the fits and s...

Today, we will hear just one sentence from Ryle, and then shortly why only one sentence, but first a word from our Savior: "Now He was telling them a parable to show that at all times they ought to pray and not to lose heart," Luke 18:1 Ryle urges us to do the same. "I commend to you the importance of perseverance in prayer. Once having begun the habit, never give it up." And O...

In examining the Duty, Glory, and Excellency of prayer, we are reminded that: I am a Sinner. Being human means being complex beyond what we can express or understand. We are lonely beings because of our sins. Added and expanded from our original episode: We are reminded of the essence of sin: "Sin always aims for the worst: each time it tempts or entices, if left unchecked, it would lead to t...

"I commend to you the importance of making prayer a regular business of life. I might say something of the value of regular times in the day for prayer. God is a God of order. The hours for morning and evening sacrifice in the Jewish temple were not fixed as they were without a meaning. Disorder is eminently one of the fruits of sin. But I would not bring any under bondage. This only I say, t...

I have been meditation on the advice from Pastor Ryle for the last couple of days on using as he said: "As to praying out of a book in our private devotions, it is a habit I cannot praise." And I am glad he prefaced the comments with this: "I desire to touch this point with caution and delicacy." Jesus told us, actually in the context of prayer,   "Keep watching and prayin...

The leading of the Holy Spirit is our goal, and J.C. Ryle schools us greatly in that imperative. To that end, he says: "We may insensibly get into the habit of using the fittest possible words, and offering the most scriptural petitions, and yet do it all by rote without feeling it, and walk daily round an old beaten path. I desire to touch this point with caution and delicacy. I know that th...

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 s...

J.C. Ryle warns us: If I do not mean what I say, I am trifling with God. The Bishop's admonishment is one of the pillars of our relationship with the Holy God. He has already reminded us we are on Holy ground, and now he warns us to mean what we say. We know with one another that we are in the most trouble when we say things we do not mean to our community. I will take out the garbage. I will...

J.C. Ryle reminds us once again: "I commend then to your attention, the importance of reverence and humility in prayer. Let us never forget what we are, and what a solemn thing it is to speak with God. Let us beware of rushing into his presence with carelessness and levity. Let us say to ourselves: "I am on holy ground. This is no other than the gate of heaven." Of course, he is cor...

Happy October Surprise! As we continue in "A Call to Prayer" by J.C. Ryle, we will hear him call us to humility when we come to God. Pastor Ryle says: "Suffer me then, as a companion in the Christian warfare, to offer you a few words of exhortation. One thing, at least, we all feel: we must pray. We cannot give it up. We must go on. I commend then to your attention, the importance o...

J.C. Ryle continues to encourage all who pray.  "There are few children of God who do not often find the season of prayer a season of conflict. The devil has special wrath against us when he sees us on our knees. Yet, I believe that prayers which cost us no trouble should be regarded with great suspicion." "I believe we are very poor judges of the goodness of our prayers, and that t...

Richard is Back! Day two of our October surprise, and back to J.C. Ryle, and the mindset of saints of old is nothing not genuine about the ups and downs of the Christian struggle, and Ryle is in that mold. He told us yesterday: "Let me speak, lastly, to those who do pray. I trust that some who read this tract know well what prayer is and have the Spirit of adoption. To all such, I offer a few...

Don't Panic; Richard will be back with us tomorrow. October 1, 2023, our October Surprise month is here! Unbelievable quick! Thank You for listening and encouraging the podcast principal, Fred, and Richard Durrington, your amiable announcer. We have some new stuff coming and some news in a day or two, I am praying, which you may find interesting, but today we commence with day one of our Octob...

The Apostle Paul was distressed, buffeted by Satan. Evidently, Paul's practice of buffeting his body was insufficient to keep him humble. Paul prayed three times for relief from the thorn in his flesh, and when the answer came back, (no) My grace is sufficient for you, Paul's response was: "And He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness...