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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. In examining the question, "What is Prayer?" We accidentally learn why we pray. Even though no Biblical person asks why we pray? Their lives reveal our anguished need for prayer. We are sinners. Until glory, we struggle with sin. Prayer is the act of faith that assures our soul. We are complex lonely beings, and prayer brings us into t...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. After some evaluation and review, we begin season 6 of the Free Range Preacher on Prayer podcast, asking, ç Having discussed our long conversation about prayer, which answers the question, "Why listen to a podcast exclusively about prayer? We lay out our goals for the coming year: 1. A more organic mix of episodes to meet our goal: "Exhor...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. After some evaluation and review, we begin season 6 of the Free Range Preacher on Prayer podcast, asking, "Why listen to a podcast exclusively about prayer? Good question for two reasons: There are many places to learn about prayer. You can read books, listen to sermons, follow prayer movements, find articles, and find prayer helps, such as ...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. A simple prayer of Thanksgiving. "What a man is on his knees before God, that he is and nothing more." "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 freerangeprayer@gmail.com Facebook - Free Range Preacher Ministr...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. David asks, who will do us any good? Yahweh, our Creator, Redeemer, and Holy power, will always do us good. Therefore, we worship and give thanks as we lie down and sleep, knowing His abundant goodness and Favor for a lifetime. "Many are saying, 'Who will show us any good?' Lift up the light of Thy countenance upon us, O LORD! 7 Thou hast put glad...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. Appreciating God for who He is and what He has done is a critical characteristic of the child of God. Even the term "child of God" carries the weight of being needy and humble. Humility born of gratitude: Squarely gives God the glory due Him and moves our souls to rest in our trust in the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. It is suitable for our soul to be thankful...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. "Neighbors are kind, I love them everyone We get along in sweet accord But when my soul, needs manna from above Where could I go but to the Lord?" So goes the hymn "Where Could I Go but to the Lord." Who do we go to when we need protection. There is a long list of illustrative word pictures in the Scripture. All are as graphic as David's cry: He will cover...

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 proclaimed throughout the whole world. 9 For God, whom I serve in my spirit in the preaching of the gospel o...

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 the bread of life; he who comes to Me shall not hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst,...

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 greatest gift. Mark 8 recounts Jesus’ declaration of the eternal importance of reconciliation with...

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 was, I needed to develop some fallback positions from which I could, by faith, give God thanks....

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, surely you have loved ones, and you have reason to be thankful to God for how He works in their lives. Wow, that b...

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 at the Biblical mandate to be thankful: "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven agains...

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 listen to the last witness in this book. "I want the times we live in to be praying times. I want the Christians of ou...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. Today, we will let the Bishop sum up the thrust of his advice. "I offer these points for your private consideration. I do it in all humility. I know no one who needs to be reminded of them more than I do myself. But I believe them to be God's own truth, and I desire myself and all I love to feel them more." J.C. Ryle Of special note, his longing is for all he...

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.” J.C. Ryle When we have an intimate friendship with our Savior, we will say things like: 4 "Ag...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. What do you think when you know the ultimate commandment, the commandment Jesus came to give us access to, is to love him with all your heart, mind, and soul or with all your strength. Today is a key in our watchfulness in prayer. We might say the guarding or jealousy of our time with God. J.C. Ryle will give us advice as to guarding the company we keep and w...

Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64 Or go to www.frponprayer.com and use the Donations tab. Christianity, Church, Community, Fellowship, whatever label we might put on our faith, true faith is not a club. So when J.C. Ryle says: “Here is the pith and marrow of our practical Christianity. Sermons and books and tracts, and committee meetings and the company of good men, are all good in their way, but they will never make up for the neglect of private pr...

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 Ryle Nevertheless. He says: "Oh, let us keep an eye continually upon our private devotions. Here is the pith and ma...

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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." "It is of mercy that we still live and have opportunities of glorifying God actively or passively. Surely these thoughts...

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 Words of Ryle: "I commend to you the importance of thankfulness in prayer. I know well that asking God ...

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 very apt to stick to us, even when we are converted. There is a tendency in us to think only of our...

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 the word yesterday, Jesus wept in the face of the sin that causes death ("for all have sinned and fall short of the...