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Thanks for the ping, I hope that everything is going well with you and your son's plans for a Christian ministry. If his plans and God's plans are in agreement he can't go wrong if he sticks with it. My daughter felt called to mission work for almost ten years after dedicating her life to His service before an opening in a foreign mission organization came about that she was sure came from God. It worked out that she finished high school and college and got some real world work experience before the opportunity to use her training and work experience as a writer and editor to serve in a mission organization came to her, and when it did she was well prepared for it. Tell your son that if he's sure of his calling he must persevere until God gives him the opportunity to serve Him how, when, and where He wants him to serve.

Now to address the subject of the thread. I have had the war and our people who are in peril over there in my prayers for a long time, but recently other things have taken up my time and attention and I have been slack in praying for those worthy causes. This thread is a very good reminder to me that I am obligated as a Christian first and an American second to pray for our troops' safety, and also for success in their efforts to bring peace, law and order, and at least a degree of liberty and democratic governance to the long oppressed people of those Islamic nations.

If the Islamic nations we are involved with are opened up to Christian churches and Christian missionaries by our presence there perhaps enough native Muslims will come to Christ to establish a large base of churches that will spread the gospel throughout those nations, and many Muslims who are now on a straight road to eternal damnation will be saved. If that were to happen, what price can be placed on the eternal soul of just one man, woman, or child who turns from the empty trappings of a demonic false religion to the saving grace of our Lord Jesus Christ?

And that's not to mention the souls of perhaps millions of people in that entire region who might possibly come under the influence of the gospel being preached and widely accepted in Iraq and Afghanistan. Who can deny that it could possibly be God's plan to have our people over there to open the way for Christian evangelization of those poor deluded Muslims who are now doomed to die in their sins unless they have their spiritual eyes opened by the Holy Spirit and can then see through the delusional nature of their pagan demonic religion and call on the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation?

Whew, talk about your over-long run-on sentences, that last one almost made me run out of breath while just silently reading it over. Anyway, thanks again for the ping, and have a blessed Lord's Day evening out there in la-la land.

Oh BTW I almost forgot, Ken has been off chemo for 2 months now and is feeling well again. His hair is even growing back and he's beginning to look a lot like my son used to look. He's due for another PET scan in early April and his doctor has submitted a letter to FAA attesting to his good state of health in hopes that he can soon resume flying again and can bring home some of that filthy lucre that his family has been doing without for almost a year now. I can never thank you enough or the others enough who prayed for what seems to be a miracle to me. Miracle or not, God heard and answered our prayers and I will be forever grateful, first to Him and then to all of you. Of course this thing isn't over yet, and won't be until 5 years have passed without a recurrence. But I have to believe that God didn't bring us this far just to let us go back over it all again. And even if He does it will be His will, and something good will come of it for someone somehow sometime somewhere.

"Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven." Mat 18:19.

I look at Ken's returning health and I see what can happen when many more than two agree, PTL!

Well said, dear FRiend! Praise Jesus for Ken's continued well being. He will have my prayers for the situation with the Air Lines.
Thank you for your prayers for my son. He is in a waiting period with the Lord.
Thank you for your exhortation about our responsibilities as Christian Patriots! You sound much like our beloved Pastor :)

If the Islamic nations we are involved with are opened up to Christian churches and Christian missionaries by our presence there perhaps enough native Muslims will come to Christ to establish a large base of churches that will spread the gospel throughout those nations, and many Muslims who are now on a straight road to eternal damnation will be saved.

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