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!

[shezza]

Amen and amen.
(You have such a way with words...what a beautiful prayer, TexOkie.)

[TEXOKIE]

"ONe spectacular young woman lost in that ambush was the best friend of PFC Jessica Lynch. Her name was Lori Piestewa from the Hopi Reservation in Arizona. She left behind two young children.

During her funeral, as eagle flew overhead. Her family took it as a sign of her soul soaring to Heaven."

What a very precious story. Thank you so much for posting it, DL.

[TEXOKIE]

Thank you for all your prayers and for your post 79, Tonk. God bless you. Please give my greetings to the Canteeners! My poor little modem just cant crunch very easily all the high powered graphics y'all are into over there! We still live in backwoods rural America with no rapid connectors to the net available to us yet....soon, we hope! :-)

[TEXOKIE]

Your post 80:

"Offering prayers of Thanks
txradioguy has just returned from Iraq"

Thanks for the notification, Tonk!

WELCOME HOME, TXRADIOGUY!!!! WE ARE SO HAPPY YOU ARE HERE!!!THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR SERVICE TO OUR NATION!!

[TEXOKIE]

Thank you for joining us in prayer in your posts 82 and 83, Alamo-Girl. Hope things are going well with you.

[TEXOKIE]

Thank you for all your prayers and for bringing us the Romans 10:17 reminder, maestro.

[TEXOKIE]

Thank you for all your prayers and for your post 85, Rags! God bless you.

[TEXOKIE]

Thanks for your prayers for the 507th and for your post 87, Rags.

[TEXOKIE]

Thank you for joining us in prayers for the 507th, MBY.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Amen.

Joining you in prayer, TEX.

Your prayer in response to the attacks in Fallujah is so beautiful.

Thank you! Bless you!

[TEXOKIE]

Dear Ms 'Tima,

Prayers continue!!

Beloved Heavenly Father,
We continue to thank you and praise you Father, for the grace you have given us by watching out for our Karen, who is serving in the 4th ID in Iraq.

Father, we ask that her prayer blanket, and her golden chain mail armor be renewed and strengthened. Let her be granted all the wisdom, courage, and strength that your Great Law will allow so that she can discharge her duties to her highest abilities. Let this be true for all who serve with her in uniform and in support capacities. We are so grateful for these fine young men and women who are sacrificing years of their youth and vigor for us and our nation. Let them know and understand at some level the gratitude we feel.

Father, we place them all in your hands and keeping and we gratefully call forth your divine Will and Plan for them. Let ONLY your Will be done. Shatter all opposition to their lives. Shatter any and all attacks which are opposed to your Vision and Plan.

Amen

[TEXOKIE]

Thank you for your posts 90 and 91. Indeed it is so hard to wait whenever we want to know NOW what is going on! God bless you. Thank you for your many prayers for our troops and those who serve with them.

[TEXOKIE]

"AMEN TexOkie. And an apology - I have been remiss -- I can't believe I didn't let you all know KALEN ARRIVED AT FT. McCOY yesterday morning. Going thru demob and we hope to see him on Sunday!!! WOOOOOO-HOOOOOOO! Thank you ALL for all the prayers offered for his safety on this thread and in your hearts."

NO apology needed....just thanks ever so much for the GREAT NEWS!!! We all join you in rejoicing for the return of your young warrior! When you finally come up for air, let us know whatever you can about him and/or some of his experiences! :-)

[TEXOKIE]

Thank you for joining us in prayer in your post 99, Phyllis.

[TEXOKIE]

All glory to God in the Highest for all the good stuff. Thank you so much for all your prayers for our troops and those who serve with them.

[McGavin999]

I join you in prayer daily TEXOKIE, I just very seldom post.

[maestro]

Amen,.......More Grace and Mercy,.....In Jesus' Presious Name, Amen!!!

(Romans 10:17)

[maestro]

Amen,.......More Grace and Mercy,.....In Jesus' Precious Name, Amen!!!

(Romans 10:17)

[amom]

Kalen is HOME??? HOME!!!! What wonderful news! This is the BEST PART...getting to say

WELCOME HOME!!!

[amom]

txradioguy!!! Even if it is a bit late...I wanted to say WELCOME HOME directly to ya.

Tonk. Thanks for posting the news here.