Posted on 02/29/2008 10:30:50 PM PST by eaglesnest1
You are being ‘pinged’ because I have seen your heart for prayer on one or more recent Free Republic prayer threads. This thread is for those interested in worshipping and praying for those who support our troops and our troops themselves. If this is of interest to you, please read on. If not, send me a private note to be removed from future ‘pings’. (I apologize I don’t know how to put a link for Add/Remove into my posts yet.)
I have only been blessed to be part of the FR community for a few months. I was drawn to get involved by the prayers I saw posted in a prayer thread for a wounded Marine last August who was not expected to survive. (BTW, he not only survived by the power of prayer, but is still recuperating.)
In September 2007 I came to Washington D.C. from my home in Northern California at the invitation of a FReeper active in the D.C. Chapter. One of the reasons I was coming was to bring a song the Lord had had me compose and record (full story at www.holyspiritpress.org/standup.html) to support our troops and encourage our nation to support them even though I am a housewife and mother – not a professional singer (you can listen to the song at www.youtube.com/user/ascendinworship )
The Lord made it clear I was to make the trip even though at the time He had not yet revealed all the reasons why. I knew I was to bring copies of the CD to give our wounded at Walter Reed, as well as to stand with GOE at a press conference to support Petraeus on Captiol Hill, to walk with other GOE members through the halls of Congress and to hand out copies of STAND UP in the various congressional offices to encourage a vote to continue to fund the War On Terror. In addition, I was to visit the wounded Marine who at that point still lay in a coma and to worship and pray with his family in his room at Bethesda for his healing.
However, as the plane began its descent to land at Dulles airport in D.C. I felt like the Lord whispered a message to me and I wrote it down. In part it said, “You are going behind enemy lines to bring ME and MY encouragement, hope and covering (through the addition of prayer and worship to their activism) to those who tirelessly fight My fight, but in their own power. Most of these are in their own power right now. Bring them to ME. Teach them to seek, listen and rely on Me, so I can impart the strategy, the only strategy which will defeat the enemy – MINE…I will send you the prayer warriors. Link the prayer warriors – the intercessors and worshippers…wit the activists…Show them how it has always been – praisers lead into battle. Worship is rewarded by release of the supernatural strategy which WILL lead to victory.
Since that September 2007 D.C. trip, one D.C. Chapter Freeper and I have indeed prayed almost every single Friday by phone to cover planned D.C. Chapter activities for that night at Walter Reed and the weekend in prayer. We also pray regularly for the recovery of our wounded warriors and for a growing faith base in our country (because though we support our troops and those who support them, we also understand God’s overriding objective in all things on earth is to restore as many as will come back to Him for all eternity!) This young lady and I will likely continue our coast-to-coast weekly prayer. However, God has now laid on my heart that it is time to broaden the worship and prayer cover for the activities of those who support our troops, our wounded warriors, our deployed troops and their families.
I believe the many of the prayer warriors He would have participate are right here on Free Republic. I believe you will know who you are.
Please pray if you are called to join in united worship and prayer for those who support our troops and our military. (And please ‘ping’ anyone else you believe He might be calling to get involved.)
The power of our worship and prayers cannot be underestimated. Surely for those who are called it is as important as physically being present at the event. And while many of us would like to participate physically and tangibly in as many as the troop-supporting events as possible, this worship/prayer can be done anyplace, anytime – including at the events OR from home! It is vital and critical work and it is an honor to be called to it!!
As you all know, God’s first command is that we have no other gods before Him. Re-phrased, this means He commands us to worship Him alone. To worship is to bow down before something or someone because it is “worth” bowing down to. God is only One worthy of our worship. God is unchanging. How He was is how He is. He is also Truth, which by definition means He cannot lie. God promises to fulfill His promises, therefore we can expect Him to fulfill His promises for us just as He has done in every generation past, including in the stories of the Old and New Testaments. When we obey His command to worship, God promises to draw near.
Heaven is our model. In heaven, worship and intercession occur without ceasing: Angels and those who have gone before are constantly worshipping before the throne of God; Jesus is simultaneously worshipped and is interceding on our behalf at the right hand of the Father. Jesus taught us to pray: Our Father who is in heaven; holy is Your name; Your kingdom, come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
The idea is for the remnant of His faithful on earth to create an atmosphere of worship, adoration and intercession which puts Him first (thus fulfilling ‘if my people who are called by my Name will humble themselves, seek My face and pray’, then He will restore our land 2 Chron 7:13)
God and His power are inseparable. It is part of who He is. Thus where He is present, so is His power. The objective through our united worship is to cause God to release a cloud of His glory which fills the atmosphere of this country, the battlefields of the War on Terror and ultimately the world. This will enable there to be results from the work done by the activists who support our troops to confound the world’s experts. Our troops and their supporters will not only be blessed by the manifestation of God’s supernatural in unexpected ways into their natural, but – even more importantly – the reality of God will be revealed to more people as well.
Are you called to be part of this worship and prayer cover for those who support our troops? This is the initial idea of how it will look (subject to change as things develop). The thread is to be ongoing. (Is that possible? Please tell me how to do it if it is not….) Periodically, as He leads, I will post a prayer He has had me write down as I pray it. You will be ‘pinged’. You are then responsible to respond only as He leads. For instance sometimes you may post a public response (it may be as simple as ‘prayers up’ or another prayer); you may post your own prayer to the thread and ping us; you may lurk and not let anyone know you are praying but pray in one accord; you may at times be called not to participate at all. The prayers posted can be intercession – asking/beseeching for something in particular – or worship – simply adoring Him in words for who He is what He does, what He’s done and what He definitely will do. The postings can be for a particular activism event someone is aware of or in general. DO AS THE HOLY SPIRIT LEADS.
This is a work in progress. Please be patient as God develops this the way He desires. Thank you for your prayerful consideration and remember – please send me a private reply for now if you want to be removed from the ping list.
God be with all of you. I can already tell from what little I have learned about you that your hearts are most definitely for Him. May He bless you richly and use you tremendously for His kingdom work whatever that work is.
For His glory, eaglesnest1
May the Good Lord watch over and protect all those who serve to protect the rest of us.
May those who have sacrificed their lives and freedom for others be greatly rewarded in Heaven, and given the respect they deserve here on earth.
And may the souls of the faithful departed military members, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
Amen.
Thank you to all members of the military.
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Lord God, please be with those that have given their lives so we can live in a blessed country. Please don’t let their sacrifices be in vain.
OK, I’ll pray.
AMEN Eaglesnest! I will never forget that it is by the blood of our military that I am free. I can hand out a trac or a Bible in this country because of the price paid for me, first on the cross, then by our brave American warriors. God bless all who serve our nation today!
Amen and Amen. We lift them up to you Jesus, our Lord.
Please remember our MIAs,,,2nd.BCT.10th.Mt.Div...
Thank you, America’s finest.
thank you!
I don't post my prayers but will quietly intercede in my prayer closet.
prayers up.
Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
~Amen~
You’re very welcome MoutainFlower.
God does hear our prayers.
In Jesus’ name.
Amen.
Amen to all prayers on this thread for our Troops.
PRAYER FOR INDEPENDENCE DAY
Lord God, tomorrow the United States of America celebrates Independence Day. There will be barbecues and get-togethers, parades, pancake breakfasts, fireworks and patriotic songs. Media will wax nostalgic over our heritage and yet how many will remember that freedom is not free – it has never been free. It must be fought for and won.
Lord God, You gained the ultimate victory for us that we might have freedom from death and live reunited with You in eternity. Here as in so many instances since, the battle was not against flesh and blood but against the principalities and powers in the heavenly places which have effect on our natural world.
As we celebrate Independence Day we choose to remember those who have gone before in previous generations: first those who fought for our independence (fighting for many years AFTER the declaration was signed to make sure that the independence so boldly declared was indeed secured) and those who have fought to preserve that same freedom and secure it for others. We thank You, Lord God, for each and every one of these brave souls, for their sacrifice and the sacrifice of their families.
We also thank You for each and every member of our military today as well as for their families. Lord God bless them in ways which reveal that it is You who touches them and no other. Bring them comfort. Relieve their anxieties. Be their protection and provision. Where there is injury, where there has been a death, be the balm which eventually brings healing to body, mind and spirit of the wounded soldier and body, mind and spirit of family members left behind. Lord God, give them a shoulder to cry on, a word of encouragement spoken to their hearts for the future, and the will and strength to persevere until that which is hoped for has come to pass.
As we celebrate today in peace here at home because they fight in the sandbox over there, draw them closer to You, that they may each learn to hear Your voice, know which way they are to go and follow in it – this for increased safety and increased progress in the war.
As a gift for our nation’s birthday, we ask that by the power of Your Holy Spirit at work in this world, You would hand over the leaders of these terrorist groups – including Osama Bin Laden – into our military’s hands. We ask that by our worship and prayers, You would hover over the cities and every acre of land in Iraq and Afghanistan and provide protection for the local citizens who have bravely sought to serve in leadership positions. Give our military leaders time to spend with You and ears to hear Your strategy for this war. Give the leaders of these newly free nations ears to hear Your strategy for their countries and the tools and trustworthy people to implement the plans.
Lord God, You promise if we will worship You, You will draw close, inhabit our praise and accompany us. So we worship. We adore. We want Your plan for our military. We want Your protection, Your provision, Your comfort. We trust in You and bow before You again today. Speak to us. We are listening. Show us the way to go and we will walk in it. Each of us separate parts of one Body with Jesus Christ as Head. Show us each the work You have for us today to encourage our troops and support our nation. Give us the vision so that we will each stand up and embrace the work You have for us today – for Your Kingdom, for Your glory, that Your Light may shine brighter and brighter in the darkness and we may enjoy the fruit of Your promises for those who out of a love born of faith, choose to obey You and walk in Your will.
God bless America! God bless our troops! God bless those who support them! In Jesus’ name, Amen.
BTTT
AMEN!
God give us men. The time demands
Strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and willing hands;
Men whom the lust of office does not kill;
Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy;
Men who possess opinions and a will;
Men who have honor; men who will not lie;
Men who can stand before a demagogue
And dam his treacherous flatteries without winking;
Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog
In public duty and in private thinking.
— Josiah Gilbert Holland. 1819-1881
GREAT QUOTES about War and Peace and America to SUPPORT THE TROOPS
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1490566/posts
AMEN AND AMEN!
GRACE TO ALL CHRIST’S PATRIOTS!
Joh 8:32 “And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
Joh 8:36 “Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.
(NKJV)
ETERNAL DEATH AND ETERNAL LIFE MET AT THE CROSS,PRAISE THE LORD,FOR OUR INDEPENDENCE FROM DEATH!
SEMPER FIDELIS,5 SOLAS AND 66 POINTS!
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