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. 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 proclaim...

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...

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 gre...

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...

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, sure...

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...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. Throughout the ages, the Holy Spirit has been consistent in the critical nature of prayer. As it turns out, J.C. Ryle, in his last paragraph of "A Call to Prayer," reflects the purpose of "The Free Range Preacher on Prayer," podcast so we will lis...

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What is the sweetest place on earth? The difference between King Saul and King David made all the difference in their lives and effectiveness in what God had called them to do. While Saul justified himself in the presence of Samual and in the eye of God, David humbled himself in honest, brutally honest repentance. “If you will take care of your prayers, nothing shall go very wrong with your soul.”...

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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. JC Ryle has written in his book, "A Call to Prayer," and we are following his writing to Christians God's people who pray. His thoughts are crucial to our Christian lives. As you've heard many times in this and over the last year when it comes to Ry...

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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. Another day in the paddock, and what a joy to continue with J.C. Ryle in his book, "A Call to Prayer." Part two of the Bishop's commendation to be grateful children of God. He continues with his reminder that our lives are "of His mercies." &q...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. Day 23 of our focus on the practical side of his, J.C. Ryle's advice to Christians who do pray, of course, from His book "A Call to Prayer. Today, he calls us to thankfulness in our prayers, and the context precisely, in private prayers with our Savior. The...

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...

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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. 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...

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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 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...