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SoftTouch
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Originally posted by Caretaker:
May our Lord bless and keep them and bring them home safely.
Amen!!!
H4HS, your post was really cool! I don't think I've ever looked at it quite that way before, but it really does make a lot of sense to me.
Another thing I'd like to say on this issue of war and governments (in line with Linda's) is that God does put authorities in place, and He does remove them. But God uses People to work out His will and I see that God is using the U.S. to help protect Israel and to bring Glory to His name in the Islamic lands.
My cousins wife was over there for the first year and when she got back she said that So Many People (Americans and Iraqi's) were being led to Jesus! Now how can you argue that? Praise God! ![[clap2]](graemlins/clap2.gif)
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Psalm 119:104Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way. 105Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
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helpforhomeschoolers
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Yes, thank you Mohawk! It is funny, there has been so much on this board lately about war and from those who feel we should not be over there, but your article here really made me smile.
My beief is that God is ALWAYS on the throne and that HE is the one who makes and takes down kings. We are so consumed with this life and this body of flesh that we cannot see a greater more grand picture. We cannot understand that there is a war in the heavenlies that is being played out in the lives of humans here on this earth. Struggles for power and land here, reflect struggles for power and territory there.
When I saw this post, I could not help but think that perhaps GOD allowed us to go to war in Iraq because GOD wanted people over there praising his name, praying in the name of HIS son, etc... etc.... Maybe just maybe in the unseen realm there is a greater war, a war among angels and may be the songs of praise for Jesus, the prayers lifted up in the name of Jesus, was exactly the sound that God wanted ringing in the air on that Battlefield??
How Awesome is our God! His ways are not our ways, but HIS ways are always perfect. I love HIM so much!
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Gramajo320
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Mohawk,
God bless you for your posting and thank you!
We all need to pray for the safety of our men and women in the military who are constantly in harms way both in Iraq and Afghanistan doing a very difficult job that they've each been given to do!
They are in harm's way 24 - 7. They all need to know that everyone in this US of A is praying for their safety and safe return home while they are in the fight of their lives!
In Christ's love,
Gramajo320
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Caretaker
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May our Lord bless and keep them and bring them home safely.
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A Servant of Christ,
Drew
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16: And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh..
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mohawk
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I read this today on Drudge... thought I'd pass it along.
Marines turn to God ahead of anticipated Fallujah battle
Sat Nov 06 2004 09:37:17 ET
NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq, Nov 6 (AFP) - With US forces massing outside Fallujah, 35 marines swayed to Christian rock music and asked Jesus Christ to protect them in what could be the biggest battle since American troops invaded Iraq last year.
Men with buzzcuts and clad in their camouflage waved their hands in the air, M-16 assault rifles laying beside them, and chanted heavy metal-flavoured lyrics in praise of Christ late Friday in a yellow-brick chapel.
They counted among thousands of troops surrounding the city of Fallujah, seeking solace as they awaited Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's decision on whether or not to invade Fallujah.
"You are the sovereign. You're name is holy. You are the pure spotless lamb," a female voice cried out on the loudspeakers as the marines clapped their hands and closed their eyes, reflecting on what lay ahead for them.
The US military, with many soldiers coming from the conservative American south and midwest, has deep Christian roots.
In times that fighting looms, many soldiers draw on their evangelical or born-again heritage to help them face the battle.
"It's always comforting. Church attendance is always up before the big push," said First Sergeant Miles Thatford.
"Sometimes, all you've got is God."
Between the service's electric guitar religious tunes, marines stepped up on the chapel's small stage and recited a verse of scripture, meant to fortify them for war.
One spoke of their Old Testament hero, a shepherd who would become Israel's king, battling the Philistines some 3,000 years ago.
"Thus David prevailed over the Philistines," the marine said, reading from scripture, and the marines shouted back "Hoorah, King David," using their signature grunt of approval.
The marines drew parallels from the verse with their present situation, where they perceive themselves as warriors fighting barbaric men opposed to all that is good in the world.
"Victory belongs to the Lord," another young marine read.
Their chaplain, named Horne, told the worshippers they were stationed outside Fallujah to bring the Iraqis "freedom from oppression, rape, torture and murder ... We ask you God to bless us in that effort."
The marines then lined up and their chaplain blessed them with holy oil to protect them.
"God's people would be annointed with oil," the chaplain said, as he lightly dabbed oil on the marines' foreheads.
The crowd then followed him outside their small auditorium for a baptism of about a half-dozen marines who had just found Christ.
The young men lined up and at least three of them stripped down to their shorts.
The three laid down in a rubber dinghy filled with water and the chaplain's assistant, Navy corpsman Richard Vaughn, plunged their heads beneath the surface.
Smiling, Vaughn baptised them "in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit."
Dripping wet, Corporal Keith Arguelles beamed after his baptism.
"I just wanted to make sure I did this before I headed into the fight," he said on the military base not far from the city of Fallujah.
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