Posted on 03/19/2004 12:51:59 PM PST by 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!
LOL!! Here's a volleybump back atcha, my friend!
"May God watch over our beloved soldiers and their families."
Amen, Peach. May God watch over them all.
I bring up Praying for our Troops every Sunday at Church and every Thursday night at Mens Bible Study.
Plus every other day of the week!
The 1-7 Cav, Ft Hood are in my prayers as well as their 2 heros and their love ones that gave their all. May God be with and comfort all.
Thank you so very much for holding vigil and leading others in prayer for our troops! IMHO each and every prayer is a precious increment of hope which will do much to persuade our Father to intercede and mitigate the darkness and to increase the light of Righteousness. These young people in harm's way are so magnificent and deserve to have the very best we can give them. God bless you.
Thank you for your prayers for the 1-7 Cav out of Ft Hood and the 2 they have lost, TexKat. I join in your prayers that God will be with and comfort them all.
Prayers are on the way.
BTTT
I join in your prayer for our heroes and their loved ones!
In the Name of the LORD JESUS we praise and thank YOU. amen
Thank you for your prayer bump, octobersky.
Thank you for joining us in prayer, Alamo-Girl.
Amen, kingattax.
Thank you for leading us in prayer.
My honor, sweet TexOkie! Here's a bump for 'ya!
Read: Leviticus 24:1-9
I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. —John 6:51
Bible In One Year: Psalms 126-128; 1 Corinthians 10:19-33
Bread has come to be regarded as something less than what it was in Bible times. We don't usually think of it as a symbol of life's necessities. In Jesus' day, however, bread represented nourishment in all its many forms.
This helps us understand why the Lord told Israel to put bread in the Holy Place of the tabernacle—His "house of symbols." There in that first room, 12 loaves were to be displayed on a golden table "before the Lord" (Leviticus 24:6). Those loaves re-minded Israel that God always provides for His own when they come to Him on His terms. The bread reflected God's promise to provide for all who hunger and thirst for righteousness (Matthew 5:6; 6:31-34).
For the believer in Christ, bread may represent the Bible, Jesus, Christian fellowship, or any of the provisions God has made for our spiritual needs. He cares for us and He's ready to feed us, but His offer is not unconditional. He promised to provide daily "bread" for those who in obedience have separated themselves to live and to eat from the hand of God.
The Lord cares for all who willingly and humbly receive their physical and spiritual food from Him. —Mart De Haan
A belated "thank you" for your post 734! God bless you! God bless our troops!
Read: Colossians 3:22-4:1
Whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men. —Colossians 3:23
Bible In One Year: Psalms 148-150; 1 Corinthians 15:29-58
The late Fred Rogers, creator and host of the much-loved children's television program Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, had a special understanding of his ministry and his work. His widow, Joanne, told a journalist: "I always remind people that he was an ordained Presbyterian minister and this was his ministry. His work was his ministry, and he loved his work; my, did he love his work. That's what makes me sad about losing him. Because I think he would have worked for a long time more if he could have, yet he accepted that with all of his heart and was ready to go to heaven."
We may feel that work is secular, but view leading a Bible study as spiritual. The Bible draws no such distinction, however. Paul instructed Christians to work "not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but in sincerity of heart, fearing God. And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ" (Colossians 3:22-24).
When we honor God and help people, then our work and ministry blend together in pleasing service to the Lord. Mister Rogers showed us how we can do that in our own neighborhood. —David McCasland
Extra prayer request for all of us. Next two months are going to be very unusual leading up to the election.
God bless and protect our troops and allies, the leaders, and first responders who suffer on the frontlines - behind computers, in our airports and ports, on battlefields, in neighborhoods - enemy-occupied territory around the world. I pray for the Holy Spirit to intercede with Our Lord in prayer for all who are hurting or fearful and unsure how to pray, thanking God and Jesus for this precious gift and the promise in Rom. 8:26, to cover all of our brave defenders, their loved ones and friends in His powerful protection in the coming weeks, and grant them the discernment to see and stop the evil lies and acts of the enemy. I thank God we can hold onto His promise that greater is He that is in us, than he that is in the world, knowing that we do not fight against flesh. Because Our Lord and Savior reconciled us to Our Father by paying our heavy sin debt on the cross, we can lift our allies up to His care in prayer, knowing that He knows their needs, and hears our prayers. I thank God, in advance, for His intervention, mercy, might, and protection. In the name of Jesus, the powerful Son of God. Amen.
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I have a prayer request for one of our FRiend's who's heading to Afghanistan (tomorrow or Thursday) to help our troops and the Afghan people, keep the Taliban from disrupting next month's elections.
TEXOKIE, amom, could you please add "FRiend in Afghanistan" to the prayer list and ping the prayer warriors.
Thank you.
I thank God for you! all!
Amen. Added to my prayers.
Added with honor. Prayers up for our 'FRiend in Afghanistan'
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