PRAYER WARRIOR FIELD TRIP...and This 'N That!!!
MEG33 brought a thread to our attention which is the history of the battle prayer for good weather commissioned by General Patton. The history includes a discourse on the need for prayer in battle by the General. It's a good read, and worth the time you might choose to spend on it. So put on your hiking shoes, and gather up your notebooks and go here:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1116011/posts I received an email from my aunt the other day. (She's the one who is married to my uncle who dropped into Normandy and Holland with the 82nd Airborne.) I thought ya'll would enjoy this little story. As a great sage said once, "a twinkle of mirth is needed on earth!"
In mysterious ways...............
A college professor, an avowed Atheist, was teaching his class. He
shocked several of his students when he flatly stated he was going to
prove there is no God.
Addressing the ceiling he shouted: "God, if you are real, then I want you
to knock me off this platform. I'll give you 15 minutes!"
The lecture room fell silent. You could have heard a pin fall. Ten
minutes went by. Again he taunted God, saying, "Here I am, God.
I'm still waiting."
His count-down got down to the last couple of minutes when a Marine just
released from active duty and newly registered in the class walked up to
the professor, hit him full force in the face, and sent him ass over
tea-cups from his lofty platform.
The professor was out cold!
At first the students were shocked and babbled in confusion. The young Marine took a seat inthe front row and sat silent. The class fell silent...waiting.
Eventually, the professor came to, shaken. He looked at the young Marine
in the front row. When the professor regained his senses and could
speak he asked: "What's the matter with you? Why did you do that?"
"God was busy. He sent me."
In her post 266, amom, our list keeper announced that she would be adding JeeperFreeper's number one son, a Marine grunt, 0311(SAW gunner), with the Alpha Co., 1st Bn., 5th Marines, in Fallujah, Iraq, to our prayer list. Amom listed a link relating some information about what his unit has been up to lately.
MERCIFUL HEAVENLY FATHER OF US ALL,
We come to you on bended knee asking you to please place your loving attention and protection upon JeeperFreeper's number one son in the Marines serving in Fallujah, Iraq.
Send to him and his buddies, in our name and in the name of our Lord Christ Jesus, legions of protection angels. Place the whole armor of God including but not limited to one of our prayer-woven blankets and a burnished set of golden chain mail. We ask that you will assign to him a team of protection angels to guide, guard, direct, and protect him. Let there be a triple ring-pass-not of invisibility, invincibility, and invulnerability to all harm placed upon him by the hands of our Lord and His legions.
Father, dispense to this Marine all the qualities of protection, courage, power, love, faith, wisdom, hope, obedience to the Lord, health, ministry, and mercy according to his hour of need. Let him transcend himself, by thy Grace, to perform his duties with the honor and highest standards he holds for himself. We have great faith in him and are so grateful for his service. Please let him know deep in his heart that his actions on our behalf this day and in the days to come are supported by us and received with the gratitude they deserve.
Surround Jeeper and their entire family during this difficult time of separation. Hold them tangibly in your blessed great arms while they wait for news of their son during these days of uncertainty. Grant them an extraordinary abundance of faith and peace of mind. Grant them joy despite the stresses, and grant them the ability to rest with total trust that you, our heavenly Father, have all under your loving care and control.
Father, we ask that the way be made clear in Fallujah and in the other hot spots which are being reported in Iraq. Guide our civilian leadership. Guide our military leadership. Give to all those levels of leadership, from the President on down through the entire officer corps to the lowliest 2nd lieutenants YOUR Vision and Plan for what must take place in these circumstances. Grant our Troops and all the people of this nation and our allies that shared Vision of Victory which must be won.
Father, clear the way for our troops with our prayers, as General Patton has instructed us! SHATTER!! all opposition to the Holy Cause of Freedom! SHATTER AND BIND!! all who are the Enemy, and who spew forth their hate and hate creation throughout the Middle East! SHATTER AND BIND!! the entire momentum of centuries of that hatred to the point that hatred is a habit and point of honor to these people, so that they dont even remember why they first began to hate! Cut free your children from those dark momentums of the centuries, and let those who are the originators of the cause and core behind that hatred be bound in the earth and be bound in unseen realms! CLEAR the way on that battlefield! Send forth those legions of VICTORY! AND LET THE VICTORY BE WON BY YOUR GRACE AND MERCY with a minimum of loss of life of your best servants! We invoke in this hour miracles of protection!
Father, if we have prayed amiss in any way, please adjust our prayers. Take the fervor of our hearts and let that fervor be as a fire to add to the flames of Victory which are descending in this hour by your divine Grace and Word and multiplied according to thy Will!
All which we have called forth for this special Marine, we call forth for all his buddies and each and every precious Marine, Sailor, Soldier, Airman, and CoastGuarder. We call it forth for all who gather intelligence or serve as support personnel. We call it forth wherever you have a lonely servant fighting the good fight for Freedom. Father, God, bless each and every one of them, for they are our greatest treasure.
Amen