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'
PRAYER WARRIOR FIELD TRIP!!!!
Ragtime Cowgirl has posted a thread with great info on the brave souls who are serving to support our troops and war effort overseas in private service companies. Please put on your hiking boots and see what these heroes are doing in our behalf "over there."
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1208517/posts
Please join in prayer for our fellow Freeper "Friend in Afghanistan" and our nation in her upcoming elections.
BELOVED HEAVENLY FATHER,
We are placing on the altar this day our love and concern for one of our own Freepers, known to us as "Friend in Afghanistan." It is our understanding that this one will be involved in working to ensure safe and just elections in that country. Father, these are the very basics and fundamentals in the practice of self-government and Freedom. Help them to lay down a solid foundation which will unfold and bless that nation for many years to come. Let the preparations for this process in Iraq also be protected and guided. We ask that you will overshadow Friend in Afghanistan and all his colleagues and all our troops and allies to the end that the upcoming Afghani elections and those of any other free nation will be truly victorious.
We ask that you will wrap Friend in one of our prayer blankets, with all the rays of your divine majesty. Let abundant portions of love, protection, courage, wisdom, discipline, truth, health, service, and mercy be dispensed to him according to the need of the hour. Let the Full Armor of God be upon him at all times.
We ask that all who are his family and friends holding vigil for him until his return will be granted the grace of peace and faith that all IS truly well with him because he is securely wrapped in your own hands and heart.
This which we call forth for our Friend in Afghanistan, we call forth for all who are serving alongside our troops in service and support functions. Guide the leadership of their companies. Guide the leadership of our troops who interact with them. Guide all the ones who are our 'boots on the ground.' Protect them all.
We place before you the entire situation of our electoral process. The energies swirling throughout the nation in races at all levels and in all states are becoming so fierce. Father, we petition you for your intercession. Take complete command of the entire process. Bring to the nation's attention ONLY your choice of issues to be addressed. Bring victory ONLY to your choice of who should be holding office in the next cycle. Shatter any and all efforts to commit vote fraud, manipulate, or attack our system in any way whatsoever. We are aware that our enemy seeks to strike us in order to change the American heart. Father, we beseech you to send your legions of Angels, and the legions of our Savior into the fray to foil all plans and attempts to tamper with this holy process of self government.
It has been stated by several of our respected statesmen that our future truly hangs in the balance. Father, we vote this day and often in the days to come with our prayers that all will unfold in the manner of your own design and Purpose. We commend our nation and her future into your hands, for you are our court of last resort. Guide each of us as to what tasks you would have us perform each day before the election in order to achieve that end.
Our news media have informed us that we have lost 999 precious Americans in the Holy Cause of Freedom. Father, bless the souls of these, your best servants. Bless their families and loved ones and guide them in their grief. Father, above all, let not these heroes have given their lives in vain. Let these elections, both those of the newly freed as well as our own, be clearly seen in their light of victory and majesty, as being the gift of your hands through the hearts of those who gave up their lives in our defense.
We are grateful that you hear our prayers, for you are our very own loving Father as well as the All-Powerful Deity. Let only your own Will be done.
Amen