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!

[boxerblues]

Prayers are on the way for the safety of your nephew, may he come home sooner than expected

[SAMWolf]

Prayers offered for Bryan, all members of his unit and their families.

[Alamo-Girl]

I join in prayer for this loved one and for all our troops!

[DLfromthedesert]

God Bless these sons and daughters of America who answered the call; whose reward was to be put down and spit upon by the likes of faux heroes like John Kerry.

Please open the eyes of the American people that they see through the pretenses of one who cares not for the true sacrifices of real Americans, but only for the glorification of an overinflated ego.

[NEPA]

Thank you so much for the prayers and kind words. They do bring comfort. I don't understand why I'm so much more concerned now than before. Part of it may be the jerks in the prison photos have me po'd for fear terrorists will use them as an excuse to get even more violent, not that they need an excuse.

[TEXOKIE]

You are welcome for the prayers. Many of us here understand perfectly the ebb and flow of concern we have during our vigil for our loved ones in harm's way. The momentum of revenge and retaliation we have witnessed in the middle eastern cultures do cause us to hope that the recent news coverage of the prisoner mistreatment scandals will not affect the situation too greatly. I think we are at a juncture where we must truly do a lot of petitioning of the God-head and then trusting and surrendering to Him once we have done so.

God bless you and yours.

[TEXOKIE]

PRAYER WARRIOR FIELD TRIP!!

All our prayers for spiritual armor for our troops are also precipitating some exceptionally effective physical armor!

KUDOS AND THREE CHEERS TO OUR BELOVED SEABEES!!!
HIP HIP HOORAY!!! HIP HIP HOORAY!! HIP HIP HOORAY!!

Put on your kevlar and your hiking boots and go here!

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1131390/posts

[TEXOKIE]

For some reason that link didnt work. Let's try this one for the Seabees:

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1131390/posts

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Prayers for our Seabees!

Thanks, TEX. Great graphic, too (which should come in handy). (^:

Hope your performance was glorious today.

[potlatch]

Thanks for that link, TEXOKIE. Prayers for all our Troops and a Happy Mothers Day to all Mothers here!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Diva Betsy Ross]

In prayerful thought today for all of our troops, Veterans their family members. May God comfort them as they await the end of this conflict.

[TEXOKIE]

Thank you for dropping by and helping us to remember our veterans and our troops and the family members. May God indeed bless the families and comfort them while they are holding vigil.

[TEXOKIE]

PRAYER WARRIOR EFFICIENCY TIPS

Please accept a belated "Happy Mother's Day" to all you mothers out there! I received the following on Mother's Day from a good friend and thought that you all might enjoy them too.



1. The best way to get even is to forget...



2. Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death...



3. God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts...



4. Some folks wear their halos much too tight...



5. Some marriages are made in heaven, but they ALL have to be maintained on
earth...



6. Unless you can create the WHOLE universe in 5 days, Then perhaps giving
"advice" to God, isn't such a good idea!



7. Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, and faith looks up...


8. Standing in the middle of the road is dangerous. You will get knocked
down by the traffic from both ways.


9. Words are windows to the heart.



10. A skeptic is a person who when he sees the handwriting on the wall,
claims it's a forgery.



11. It isn't difficult to make a mountain out of a molehill, just add a
little dirt.


12. A successful marriage isn't finding the right person; it's being the
right person.


13. The mighty oak tree was once a little nut that held its ground.


14. The tongue must be heavy, indeed, because so few people can hold it.


15. To forgive is to set the prisoner free and then discover the prisoner
was you.


16. You have to wonder about humans, they think God is dead and Elvis is
alive!


17. It's all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure
to flush when you are done.



18. You'll notice that a turtle only makes progress when it sticks out its
neck...



19. If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the
water bill is higher.


You are richer today if you have laughed, given, or forgiven...

[Alamo-Girl]

How precious! Thanks for sharing!

[Soaring Feather]

18. You'll notice that a turtle only makes progress when it sticks out its neck...

Morning TEXOKIE! Happy belated Mother's Day to you. I like number 18, I am always running around with a sore neck. LOL

[TEXOKIE]

LOL! Thanks, Ms Feather! I know what you mean...I have been running around with a perpetual 'crick' in my neck! Aint progress great???

[DLfromthedesert]

Thank you. We really need a little lightheartedness in these very heavy times.

[TEXOKIE]

:-) So glad you like them, AG! Hope things are going well with you!

[TEXOKIE]

:-) You are welcome, DL! I'm so happy you are going to NY for us!! Take lots of notes, ok??....and lots of pics! If you dont already have a digital camera, maybe you should put it on your packing list!