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!

[Faith]

Bump from a grateful Ohioan. God bless our troops.

[TEXOKIE]

PRAYER WARRIOR FIELD TRIP!

On a somewhat lighter note after a tough week, this thread will give the stateside-bound FReepers a VERY deep appreciation for what our guys and gals in Iraq have to contend with! If we didnt pray for our troops before seeing this, this is a huge encouragement!! LOL! Go here for a shock!! (Kreepy Krawlee alert!)


http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1114961/posts

[Alamo-Girl]

I join in your prayer!

[DLfromthedesert]

Prayer bump for FRiend and all our troops. And for our President who is under siege for the stands he takes for Truth and Justice.

[TEXOKIE]

You have freepmail!

[Texas Termite]

Amen.....

We pray for safety of our troops, our President and this great country as we remember and rejoice this Easter season.

God Bless you one and all, God bless our troops and their families, and God bless America.

Our love to all......

Logan, Beth & Nana

[Alamo-Girl]

I join in prayer!

[TEXOKIE]

HAPPY EASTER, PRAYER WARRIORS!

GOD BLESS EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU. GOD BLESS OUR PRECIOUS TROOPS AND THOSE WHO STAND WITH THEM!

THANK YOU, PRAYER WARRIORS FOR STANDING VIGIL FOR OUR TROOPS AND THOSE WHO SERVE.

THANK YOU, TROOPS ET AL FOR STANDING GUARD.

MAY GOD GRANT EACH OF YOU A VERY BLESSED DAY.

GLORY UNTO TO THE LORD! REJOICE TODAY FOR IT IS A DAY THE LORD MADE!

PEACE BE UNTO YOU IN THE NAME OF THE MESSIAH, THE PRINCE OF PEACE. PEACE BE UNTO YOU IN THE NAME OF THE RISEN LORD!

REJOICE THIS DAY FOR DEATH IS NO MORE! REJOICE THIS DAY FOR THE ETERNAL VICTORY IS WON!

HALLELUIAH!

[Phyllis]

Peace to you dear Texokie, and Happy Easter.

[Chong]

HAPPY EASTER!!!

(He's risen!)

[Soaring Feather]

Happy Easter everyone.

[Peach]

We have been away and have had only limited access to a computer.

May our soldiers and their families have a blessed and safe Easter. Godspeed to our beloved soldiers.

[Happy2BMe]

Prayed by TEXOKIE - Pinged by RagtimeCowGirl - BUMPED by me.

Thank you for your effectual, fervant prayer for our nation and our troops, TexOkie.

I especially bear witness to your calling forth "The Light."

Angels Watching Over Us: A Military Chaplain's Account of Miracles in Iraq

[Happy2BMe]

Please add my son 1Lt Aaron Cater, 1st CAV, 39th BDE to your prayer/ping list.

I believe in the power of prayer to save, heal, restore, deliver, and protect.

God bless and thanks!

H2BMe

[TEXOKIE]

PRAYER WARRIOR FIELD TRIP

Happy2BMe has brought to us a thread which is an interview of Chaplain Cash who has written a book recounting the miracles in the battle early in the hostilities in Iraq.

It is a true testimonial of the power of the prayers which our Prayer Warriors and all our fellow compatriots have offered in their devotions for our troops across the land. Our nation has offered its heart in prayer for our troops, and our prayers were answered. This thread is an incredible encouragement for us to renew our commitment to stand vigil. Things have heated up, and the need has never been greater.

Thank you Happy, for your kind words, and especially for allowing all of us who have held our troops and those who serve dear to know of this wonderful book which is being released. All Glory goes to God in the Highest.

[Happy2BMe]

In times of trouble - we go to The Rock.

The Stone that the builders rejected.

When we need a Shelter - when we need a Friend, we go to the Rock.

[TEXOKIE]

PRAYER WARRIOR FIELD TRIP....PART II


THE LINK TO HAPPY2BME'S THREAD IS:

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1115061/posts

[TEXOKIE]

Re your post 256:

Amen

[Ramcat]

Prayers this Easter and each day for our brave soldiers.

[TEXOKIE]

ADDITION TO OUR LIST:

Re your 254:

"Please add my son 1Lt Aaron Cater, 1st CAV, 39th BDE to your prayer/ping list.
I believe in the power of prayer to save, heal, restore, deliver, and protect. "

"God bless and thanks! "

BELOVED FATHER, GOD,

We place before you this day, the day we celebrate our Lord's Victory over darkness and Death, the life of 1Lt Aaron Cater, 1st CAV, 39th BDE. Watch over him, we ask you, and keep him safe.

Father, we ask that one of our prayer blankets woven from our prayers and charged with the many rainbow hues of your blessed Light containing all of your qualities of protection, faith, goodness, courage, honor, wisdom, obedience to your Law, insight, ministration, health, and mercy is issued to him. Let these qualities and more be dispensed to him according to his hour of need. We ask that you will also issue him a set of golden chain mail, also endowed with extraordinary ability to protect. Furthermore, we call forth a team of angels to be assigned especially to him, to guide him, guard him, direct, and protect him. We invoke miracles of protection this day on his behalf whenever he enters into a dangerous or threatening situation.

Father, surround Happy2BMe's entire family while they hold vigil for this young warrior. He is their hero, as well as ours. Grant this family your attention, care, and ever-present comfort. Grant them abundant faith, peace of mind, and joy despite any separations his duties require.

We are grateful for the service of this young man, and we ask that you will multiply that gratitude so that he can feel and know it deep in his heart at some level. All which we have invoked for young Aaron and his family we call forth for all who wear the uniform or serve beside our troops in some capacity and their families. Adjust our prayers and let them be aligned with thy Will. On this blessed day of Easter, we remember our Lord and have such faith that He and you, our beloved Father, will remember us and our prayers for all our young heroes. Let the winds of the Holy Spirit sweep across our land and let all of our people and our leaders be awakened and remember the High and Holy calling for which our nation was founded: the Defense of FReedom.


Amen