Troop Prayer Thread 10 - A Year of VICTORY!

[TEXOKIE]

THREE CHEERS FOR OUR WONDERFUL TROOPS, THEIR ALLIES, AND ALL WHO ARE SERVING IN SUPPORT CAPACITIES IN THE WAR ON TERROR! YOU HAVE GIVEN THIS NATION A YEAR OF VICTORY IN THAT WAR! The honor is yours, but know that we bask in your accomplishments and love you for your steadfast service on this day!

Welcome, everyone to the 10th Troop Prayer Thread! Today is the anniversary of the resumption of hostilities with Iraq, wherein our troops have made military history that shall ring down the centuries.

The troop prayer threads are dedicated to giving our troops, allies, and all who are serving the Holy Cause of Freedom, including (but not limited to) the families and loved ones waiting at home and those who are not in uniform but who are serving in dangerous situations supporting our troops and gathering intelligence spiritual support. We seek together to offer prayer, scriptures, encouraging messages, and other devotions dedicated to this purpose.

We have over the past year gathered together a prayer list of these servants of freedom. You will find it posted below. FReeper amom has been serving as our List Keeper this past year and I wish to thank and commend her for doing such a meticulous job of keeping it updated. She has also been keeping our ping list up to date. If you wish to submit a name for the prayer list or to add or take off a name from the ping list, please let either or both of us know.

For those of us who have somewhat limited computer capacity, or still have phone modems, we request that graphics be limited to pictures of loved ones for whom we are offering prayers, special visuals that seem particularly appropriate, and as much as possible, non-moving graphics. Thank you.

Thank you so much for spiritually supporting our troops, allies, support civilians, and their families.

We are grateful to God that for those who have been injured or taken back Home, He has dispatched angels to their care.

To view the previous prayer threads, use these links:

Troop Prayer Thread 9:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1031704/posts

Troop Prayer Thread 8:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/994696/posts?page=451,50

Troop Prayer Thread 7:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/973786/posts

Troop Prayer Thread 6:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/917197/posts?page=301,50

Troop Prayer Thread 5:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/898097/posts

Troop Prayer Thread 4:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/879044/posts

Troop Prayer Thread 3:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/873600/posts?page=151,50

Troop Prayer Thread 2:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/870136/posts

Troop Prayer Thread 1:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/863153/posts

For those who wish to pay their respects and honor our Fallen Heroes, please visit this thread:

Names,Stories, and Pictures of Fallen Heroes of Operation Iraqi Freedom

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/872330/posts?q=1&&page=601

Dear Lord,
Lest I continue
My complacent way
Help me remember
Somewhere out there
A man died for me today
--As long as there be war
I then must
Ask and answer
Am I worth dying for?"

Taken from the book, "A Man Called Intrepid" by William Stevenson about William Stephenson, the head of British intelligence services prior to and during WWII. He wrote this at the very beginnings of the Battle of Britain and shared it with Eleanor Roosevelt.

STAR SPANGELED BANNER

Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming?

And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore dimly seen thro' the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?

Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream:
'T is the star-spangled banner: O, long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash'd out their foul footsteps' pollution.

No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

O, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand,
Between their lov'd homes and the war's desolation;
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserv'd us as a nation!

Then conquer we must, when our cause is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust"
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

FRANCES SCOTT KEY

AMERICA, WE LOVE YOU!
AMERICA, WE LOVE YOU!
AMERICA, WE LOVE YOU!
AND OUR LOVE IS GREAT ENOUGH TO HOLD YOU ETERNALLY VICTORIOUS IN THE LIGHT!

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Joining you in prayer!

[DLfromthedesert]

Prayers for Chris and his battalion.

[TEXOKIE]

We are so pleased to add you to our Prayer Warrior ping list, ican'tbelieveit! Amom is our List Keeper, so she will put you there in time for our next update. She will also put your friend in the 82nd on our prayer list.

Beloved Father,
We pray for ICBI's friend in the 82nd Airborne who has just been sent to Afghanistan to help with the elections. Place over him/her one of our prayer blankets woven from our prayers and your love, protection, courage, wisdom, and all the qualities which he/she will need according to the challenge being presented.

Enfold ICBI during this vigil for a friend. Enfold the friend's entire family and network of loved ones.

Let all of this which we call forth for ICBI's friend we call forth for any and all who are in a similar situation of need, and according to thy perfect Will.

Amen

[TEXOKIE]

Thank you for joining in prayer, Alamo-Girl.

[TEXOKIE]

"Please join us in prayers for these two dear countrymen who gave their lives for our freedom, and for the safety of all who remain there."

All of us are so saddened at this new, patriciaruth. We do indeed add our prayers to yours for these fallen heroes and their loved ones. We continue to pray for the safety and victory of all our troops everywhere.

[TEXOKIE]

Thank you for joining in prayer, Rags.

[TEXOKIE]

Thank you for your prayers for Chris and his battalion, DL.

[TEXOKIE]

Thank you for your prayers for Chris and his battalion, DL.

[TEXOKIE]

sorry for the double post...dont know where that came from!

[TEXOKIE]

PRAYER WARRIOR FIELD TRIP!!

With the upcoming elections having so many possible profound effects on the direction we take as a nation, including what Commander In Chief will be given the authority to command our troops, many of us have been praying to our Father for action items that we can do to help with the increase of God's Light and Will in the earth.

SLB has posted a thread on a 40 Days of Corporate Prayer and Fasting effort starting SEPT 24 which I thought many of you might wish to consider for your own participation.

Please put on your hiking boots, gather up your Bibles, and go here to find out more:

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1225367/posts

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[DLfromthedesert]

Great post. Prayer and fasting ... cleanse our nation.

[TEXOKIE]

You have freepmail!! :-D

[DLfromthedesert]

Got it. Will do!!!

[ican'tbelieveit]

Thank you so much for the prayer for these wonderful soldiers.

Have you seen this:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1225321/posts?q=1&&page=1

[potlatch]

Thanks for the pings Tex. I have been here in prayer if not in replies!!

[TEXOKIE]

PRAYER WARRIOR FIELD TRIP!!


Thanks for the heads-up, ican'tbelieveit!!


Say farewell with our President to guys and gals from Maine who are being deployed overseas! Great pics of CIC Bush visiting with some of our troops before they fly away. Put on your hiking boots and bring your cameras to this thread!



http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1225321/posts?page=1,50

[TEXOKIE]

You are welcome, potlatch! We know you are out there...thanks for holding that constant vigil.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the link!

[TEXOKIE]

PRAYER WARRIOR FIELD TRIP!!!

Here is a second installment of emails from Sgt Kim Bahti, published in the Arizona Daily Star. Put on your hiking boots, body armor, and sunscreen, and join this young marine in her observations of life at the front.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1227492/posts

Most poignant is her last entry. She honors her fellow marines, and specifically her fellow Arizonans who have given all.