October 12, 2022 - Inspired by J.C. Ryle's treatise on Prayer.

We truncated our introduction for the last half of our October episodes. Our shorter introduction ends at the 3:18 mark if you would like to skip to that mark. This way, you have less to wade through.

In my zeal for the moving call for our intimate relationship with the Savior, I missed that it began with a prayer.

In my defense, Jesus says God's truths are revealed to babes. This is descriptive of your host.

Did you know your relationship, including prayer, is an answer to this prayer of Jesus:

At that time Jesus answered and said, "I praise Thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that Thou didst hide these things from the wise and intelligent and didst reveal them to babes. 26 "Yes, Father, for thus it was well-pleasing in Thy sight. 27 "All things have been handed over to Me by My Father; and no one knows the Son, except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son wills to reveal Him. 28 "Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. 29 "Take My yoke upon you, and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and YOU SHALL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS. 30 "For My yoke is easy, and My load is light."

Matthew 11:25-30

To the glory of God, our salvation not only saves us from His wrath but restores the reason for our creation. To walk with Him in the cool of the day, getting to know Him as we are known for eternity.

“What a man is on his knees before God, that he is and nothing more.”

Robert Murray M’Cheyne

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Season 5

Episode 012

October 11, 2022 - Inspired by J.C. Ryle’s treatise on Prayer.

The extended introduction for our October episodes ends at the 7:20 mark, and while there is some benefit (I believe) in listening to it again, if you would like, you can fast forward to that mark and begin the episode.

John Charles Ryle (JC) writes:

“I study the reports of missionary societies in our own times. I see with joy that heathen men and women are receiving the gospel in various parts of the globe. There are conversions in Africa, in New Zealand, in Hindustan, in China. The people converted are naturally unlike one another in every respect. But one striking thing I observe at all the missionary stations: the converted people always pray.”

This is the most challenging paragraph yet, and working through it turned out to be extended. We found five reasons which can get in the way of our prayer life.

Not in any particular order:

1. Being an American problem.

2. Saved from religions of works, not a relationship.

3. Getting used to talking to the God who is not seen.

4. The wrong perspective on prayer.

5. Letting standards you haven’t grown into keeping you from praying.

You can make the podcast better by sharing your strengths and weaknesses in prayer with us so we can speak more specifically of what you may need.

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Thank you for your thoughts.

Trust in Him at all times, O people; Pour out your heart before Him; God is a refuge for us. Selah.

Psalm 62:8

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Thank you for your thoughts.

Trust in Him at all times, O people; Pour out your heart before Him; God is a refuge for us. Selah.

Psalm 62:8

“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]

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All our Scripture quotes are drawn from the NASB 1977 edition.

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Season 5

Episode 011

October 10, 2022 - Inspired by J.C. Ryle’s treatise on Prayer.

The extended introduction for our October episodes ends at the 7:20 mark, and while there is some benefit (I believe) in listening to it again, if you would like, you can fast forward to that mark and begin the episode.

From here, we get back to our look at “A Call to Prayer,” but before we return, we look at the most emotional call, in my considered opinion, of our relationship with the God of our salvation.

Jesus in tears, cries out:

28 “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. 29 “Take My yoke upon you, and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and YOU SHALL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS. 30 “For My yoke is easy, and My load is light.”

Matthew 11:28-30

Our rest comes as we seek Him in daily conference with our Savior.

Daily we learn:

Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burden, The God who is our salvation. Selah.

Psalm 68:19

Thou hast also given me the shield of Thy salvation, And Thy right hand upholds me; And Thy gentleness makes me great.

Psalm 18:35

And so to follow Him to a gentle soul, and carrying other’s burdens:

5 “Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.

Matthew 5:5

(Love)…”bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”

“What a man is on his knees before God, that he is and nothing more.”

Robert Murray M’Cheyne

Assistant Editor: Seven Jefferson Gossard

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All our Scripture quotes are drawn from the NASB 1977 edition.

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Season 5

Episode 010

October 9, 2022 - Inspired by J.C. Ryle’s treatise on Prayer.

The extended introduction for our October episodes ends at the 7:20 mark, and while there is some benefit (I believe) in listening to it again, if you would like, you can fast forward to that mark and begin the episode.

I had a professor in college who used to stop from time to time and quip, “If I could get this concept into Fred’s head, I’d have it in a nutshell.”

So it is no surprise that it took me this long to realize Deuteronomy 6:4 says:

4 “Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one! 5 “And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

Is a call to a relationship with the God of Moses, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

The need for communication with our beloved holds sway in every true relationship.

Once again, we are called to seek Him who our soul loves:

I must arise now and go about the city; In the streets and in the squares I must seek him whom my soul loves.’

Song of Solomon 3:2

“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]

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All our Scripture quotes are drawn from the NASB 1977 edition.

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Season 5

Episode 009

October 8, 2022 - Inspired by J.C. Ryle’s treatise on Prayer.

The extended introduction for our October episodes ends at the 7:20 mark, and while there is some benefit (I believe) in listening to it again, if you would like, you can fast forward to that mark and begin the episode.

Quicken your conscience with the Holiness of God.

Feed your mind with the Word of God.

Purge your imagination with the Beauty of God.

Open your heart with the Love of God.

Devote your will to the Purpose of God.

Without a growing, Biblical, dynamic, sincere, soul-satisfying communion with the God who loves us, created us, and sees us in His Son, we can do none of these things.

“I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me, and I in him, he bears much fruit...”

John 15:5

“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]

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All our Scripture quotes are drawn from the NASB 1977 edition.

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Season 5

Episode 008

October 7, 2022 - Inspired by J.C. Ryle’s treatise on Prayer.

The extended introduction for our October episodes ends at the 7:20 mark, and while there is some benefit (I believe) in listening to it again, if you would like, you can fast forward to that mark and begin the episode.

We turn shortly to our Biblical calls to our relationship with God, the definition of our faith; prayer is a command, and often we chase after that which does not satisfy.

We are genuinely seeking God to quench our deepest needs.

O God, Thou art my God; I shall seek Thee earnestly; My soul thirsts for Thee, my flesh yearns for Thee, In a dry and weary land where there is no water.

Psalm 63:1

Thirst for the eternal, not the temporal.

“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]

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All our Scripture quotes are drawn from the NASB 1977 edition.

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Season 5

Episode 007

October 6, 2022 - Inspired by J.C. Ryle’s treatise on Prayer.

The extended introduction for our October episodes ends at the 7:20 mark, and while there is some benefit (I believe) in listening to it again, if you would like, you can fast forward to that mark and begin the episode.

“I have read the lives of many eminent Christians who have been on earth since the Bible days. Some of them, I see, were rich, and some poor. Some were learned, and some unlearned. Some of them were Episcopalians and some Christians of other names. Some were Calvinists, and some were Arminians. Some have loved to use a liturgy, and some to use none. But one thing, I see, they all had in common. They have all been men of Prayer.”

J. C. Ryle

We follow a quick sample of our great cloud of witnesses on Prayer:

“Prayer is the key that opens heaven; the favors we ask descend upon us the very instant our prayers ascend to God.”

St Augustine

When we go to God in Prayer, the devil knows we go to fetch strength against him, and therefore he opposes us all he can.

The Bible is a letter God has sent us; Prayer is a letter we send Him.

Matthew Henry

Prayer should be the natural outflow of the soul: you should pray because you must pray, not because the set time for praying has arrived, but because your heart must cry unto your Lord.

Charles Spurgeon

The evangelization of the world depends first upon a revival of Prayer.

Andrew Murray

If you have never had difficulty in Prayer, it is absolutely certain that you have never prayed.

Dr. Martin Lloyd-Jones

If we fail to cultivate this discipline, Prayer winds up being our last resort rather than our first response.

Chuck Swindoll

Whatever else the Song of Solomon teaches us, it teaches us we will see the object of our soul’s love.

I must arise now and go about the city; In the streets and in the squares I must seek him whom my soul loves.’

Song of Solomon 2:2

“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

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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 designed by @sammmmmmmmm23 Instagram

Season 5

Episode 006

October 5, 2022 - Inspired by J.C. Ryle’s treatise on Prayer.

The extended introduction for our October episodes ends at the 7:20 mark, and while there is some benefit (I believe) in listening to it again, if you would like, you can fast forward to that mark and begin the episode.

““I beseech you in all affection to attend to the subject I bring before you. Do not say that my question is too close. If your heart is right in the sight of God, there is nothing in it to make you afraid. Do not turn off my question by replying that you say your prayers. It is one thing to say your prayers and another to pray. Do not tell me that my question is unnecessary. Listen to me for a few minutes, and I will show you good reasons for asking it.”

J. C. Ryle

Whether we are called to victory by doing great things or called to victory through enduring great things, to accomplish His will, we need to throw ourselves on the mercies of God in Prayer…it is absolutely necessary.

Therefore I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and dissension.

1 Timothy 2:8

“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]

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All our Scripture quotes are drawn from the NASB 1977 edition.

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Season 5

Episode 005

October 4, 2022 - Inspired by J.C. Ryle’s treatise on Prayer.

The extended introduction for our October episodes ends at the 7:20 mark, and while there is some benefit (I believe) in listening to it again, if you would like, you can fast forward to that mark and begin the episode.

J.C. Ryle:

“I have looked carefully over the lives of God’s saints in the Bible. I cannot find one of whose history much is told us, from Genesis to Revelation, who was not a man of Prayer. I find it mentioned as a characteristic of the godly, that “they call on the Father” (I Peter 1:17), or “the name of the Lord Jesus Christ” (I Cor. 1:2). Recorded as a characteristic of the wicked is the fact that “they call not upon the Lord” (Ps. 14:4).”

Not only does the desire for fellowship with God through Prayer delineate saints from sinners, but those who live the abundant life now from those who do not.

Our wonder stems not in knowing how those “who by faith conquered kingdoms, performed acts of righteousness, obtained promises…” lived that soul-satisfying abundant life, but…

But how those who “experienced mockings and scourgings, yes, also chains and imprisonment” lived the same soul-satisfying abundant life.

Three guesses?

Prayer.

Glory to God in the highest.

“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

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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 designed by @sammmmmmmmm23 Instagram

Season 5

Episode 004

The extended introduction for our October episodes ends at the 7:20 mark, and while there is some benefit (I believe) in listening to it again, if you would like, you can fast forward to that mark and begin the episode.

J.C. Ryle boldly asserts:

“This is one of the common marks of all the elect of God, “They cry unto him day and night” (Luke 18:1). The Holy Spirit, who makes them new creatures, works in them the feeling of adoption, and makes them cry, “Abba, Father” (Rom. 8:15). The Lord Jesus, when he quickens them, gives them a voice and a tongue, and says to them, “Be dumb no more.” God has no dumb children. It is as much as They see their need of mercy and grace. They feel their emptiness and weakness. They can not do otherwise than they do. They must pray.”

Do you pray?

Feeling empty, sad, stressed? We may have problems and plans we might make, indeed need to make as a solution. However, our first call for perspective, hope, joy, and power should be to the God of all comfort.

If you need a spiritual kick in the pants to ignite your prayer life, October is the month for you.

Glory to God in the highest.

“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 designed by @sammmmmmmmm23 Instagram

Season 5

Episode 003