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FELLOW PRAYER WARRIOR AND HER FAMILY NEEDS PRAYER!!

On Christmas Day, Chong informed me that her family learned that her nephew was injured with a flesh wound to the arm in Iraq. While this is certainly disquieting news, the real wound was made when he had to witness the death of his best friend who was beside him in their Humvee. Please join us in prayer for this fine young man, our fellow freeper Chong, and their family.

BLESSED HEAVENLY FATHER,

Today, on the day of birth of our Resurrected Lord, we learn of the loss of C____'s best friend in combat. Father, we ask that you will help that young man on his journey Home. Place him in a beautiful corner of your Kingdom especially made for him. Father, we ask that you will convey directly to his heart the loss we feel for no longer having him among us. Tell him how much we appreciate his sacrifice. Tell him we vow to honor his service and never forget. We ask that you will furthermore grant us the ability, knowledge, and determination to completely fulfill that vow.

Father, the young man you have called Home has left so many grieving buddies and family members. We ask that you will help them at this time. Surround those family members and buddies with your love and our prayers. Help them and heal them through the difficult journey they have before them known as mourning. We ask that you will send a special message to the hearts of all the loved ones he left behind, the gratitude that we do feel for the sacrifice of their greatest treasure. Let each of them have a very special Christmas gift of love, healing, and communion directly from your heart which is meaningful and empowering to them.

Father, we place our C____ before your Throne of grace. Heal the wounds he suffered in his body. Heal his mind, heart, and spirit of the desolation which war brings to those who are required to press on despite losses and intense burden. Father, surround C____ and all his buddies a very special spiritual armor of invincibility, invisibility and invulnerability to any and all dark forces or powers arrayed against them.

This young man offered his life up for his friends. There is no greater love than this. It is incumbent upon us to review our own lives and to make sure we are worthy of the gift. Our Lord has told us that we were bought with a price. In addition to His great gift of salvation, we find that in each generation of a free people, our freedoms and even our lives are purchased by the blood of those who place themselves between their loved homes and the war's desolation.

We ponder the words of William Stephenson*

"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?"

We ask, blessed Father, for faith, courage, strength, and the determination to live our lives to the fullest so that these who have left their bodies on the field of battle will be glad of the price they paid when in the fullness of time there is a reunion on the Other Side.

We ask that you will take our prayers Father, and multiply them and direct them to all who are grieving this day. Let our prayers be adjusted according to thy Will. Let the entire earth be filled with your Light, for we affirm this day, that despite the darkness, the earth IS the Lord's and fulness thereof!

AMEN

*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.

A Prayer for the New Year:

A fellow prayer warrior sent me a note telling me of the vigil she will be holding this day:

"I wanted you also to know that I am joining you in prayer today with all those keeping vigil for our cities, ports, airports, planes, trains, amusement parks ~ for the interrogaters and other intel experts charged with watching/listening for our enemies plans on the net, phones, etc. ~ and for protection and vigilance for all of our troops, civilian support staff, Coalition allies and 'native' allies around the world today. "

I realized that indeed we do need to take a few moments out of our busy celebration to ask for intercession on this day of celebration and hope. Please join us in petitioning the Lord God, our Father, for blessings upon this nation and her people, and upon her allies, and all the oppressed people of the world this day and for the coming year.

Lord God, our Blessed Father,

We contemplate the year's end and we see that there have been many victories. Father, we ask that you will seal those victories and let not the Spoilers compromise them, but instead, allow them to be the fulcrum and the lever for bringing about more liberation and the blessings of freedom on our benighted planet.

FAther, we ask that in this time of hope for a new year and blank slate to write on, that you will grant us special blessings and dispensations of mercy for the coming new year.

We ask, FAther, that you will surround all who hold public office in the governments of the free nations. We ask that you will overshadow and communicate extraordinarily clearly with any and all of them who may chance to bow their head in sincere prayer. We ask that these who are elected representatives or appointed by representative governments will listen and have the strength and courage to be obedient to your directions. We ask that those who choose not to bow their heads in prayer, but who have no honor, and use their office for personal aggrandizement will have their negative actions and effect minimized and mitigated as much as your Great Law will allow.

Father, we lay upon your altar the issues of judicial abuse, any and all attacks against the Constitutional Freedoms of any kind, and the physical protection of our borders. FAther, we express our concerns about the vast numbers of people who are allowed to cross our borders with impunity. Reach into the hearts and minds of our leaders and representatives and guide them in the Way that is in accordance to your own Will and not ours in these and all other critical issues facing us in this coming year.

We ask you to overshadow all the electoral processes which will be happening in this nation and in all free nations this year. Enter into each race, from the smallest village in Afghanistan or Iraq up to and including the 2004 race for President of the United States of America. We ask that you will intercede and place into office ONLY those whom you deem to be your choice candidates for the working out of your Will and Plan.

Enter now into the governments of the nations which are headed up by tyrants and dictators. Clear and prepare the Way for your sons and daughters to overthrow their enslavers. Send forth and give growth to the seeds of your abundant mercy and freedom visions throughout the earth. Transform all darkness into Light! Banish ignorance! Banish greed! Banish lust for Power! Banish the lust to destroy and harm! Banish hatred and envy!

We ask you Father, to let us fulfill that admonition to "pray without ceasing." If it be according to your Will, please let some part of our minds and hearts be at your disposal 24/7 in the holding of the vigil for our cities, ports, airports, planes, trains, amusement parks ~ for the interrogaters and other intel experts charged with watching/listening for our enemies plans on the net, phones, etc. ~ and for protection and vigilance for all of our troops, civilian support staff, Coalition allies and 'native' allies around the world today. Continue to overshadow our Law Enforcement and public safety personnel at all levels. Bless them and grant them extraordinary wisdom, alertness, and discernment while they discharge their duties this day and in the days to come.

We are grateful, Father, for the many miracles you have granted us over our lives each and every day. We realize that we are blind to many of them, but we ask you to open our eyes to see how much you are in our lives and are our immediately present, loving Father. Help us to learn to be the face, and hands and feet of your Son, our Lord, and help us to be a blessing to all whom we meet.

We are grateful for this new slate of hope for a new year of Opportunity. We ask for blessings upon our families, loved ones, and our communities. We ask for blessings of Freedom to be preserved in this nation, and to be secured for other nations throughout the earth who have not breathed the sweet air of Liberty in living memory. We bring to you the fruits of victory from this past year, both personally and as a people. We bring to you our shortcomings from this past year as well, and ask that you will guide us into doing better in the coming year.

We remember the ones who are grieving their loved ones lost to the War on Terror throughout the earth. We remember the heroes who took to heart the words in our National Anthem and placed themselves between their loved homes and the war's desolation. We remember this day those who are Waiting for the return of their heroes who are fighting. We remember the families in Israel and other nations who have been destroyed by the suicide bombers. We remember our own countrymen who were killed by them in September 2001. Bless all of these, Lord, for they have paid or are paying more than their full measure. Bless them and comfort them abundantly.

Father, grant us Faith to enable us to see your Vision for our lives, personal and planetary. Grant us Courage and Peace and Wisdom to pursue that Vision. Take command of our lives and the governments of the world, blessed Father, and let only your divine Will be done, for we declare this day that the Earth Is the Lord's and the Fullness thereof!

Amen