Today's Prayer Alert 11-11-2009

  • Nov 11, 2009
  • Bob Willhite
  • Category: Prayer Alerts

Ladies and Gentlemen, we celebrate today a time set apart to recognize those men and women that serve our country in the five branches of military services. These people have pledged their lives, their properties and their sacred honor to protect, preserve, and defend the principles of the Constitution of the United States against ALL ENEMIES, both foreign and domestic. The Bible reads in part that ‘No greater love has anyone than this, that a person would lay down their own life for a friend’. (John 15:13)

These men and women in our troops are all making sacrifices so that we can enjoy our national freedoms every single day that we are alive. The web site only list ONE surviving member of WWI (http://www1.va.gov/VSO/index.cfm?template=viewreport&Org_ID=104)

This was recognized as a National Holiday as the end to the war that was supposed to end all wars on the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of the calendar year. History tells a somewhat different story and we have had more wars, major world conflicts, sustained military operations, and now the “War on Terror” that has gripped our nation since the events of September 11, 2001.

Ladies and Gentlemen, we are still ONE NATION UNDER GOD!

We hold these truths to be self evident, that ALL MEN are created equal in the Eyes of God. We believe that ALL MEN are endowed by their Creator with certain unconditional rights. We know for a fact that among these rights are the sanctity of Life, the empowerment of true Liberty and the ability to pursue happiness and peace of mind.

We would do well to remember the story that Joshua wrote about “memorial stones” being place at the site where God Almighty sovereignly intervened into lives of an entire nation as they were about to battle an fierce enemy at Jericho. The people were facing a physically impossible task of crossing the Jordan River. Joshua asked that his generals, one from each tribe, would stack up twelve stones on the banks of the river AFTER they had crossed over. This stack of stones was to remind future generations that God Almighty had provided a way, where there seem to be no way at all. Joshua 4:1-7

Heavenly Father, each us has a stack of stones to remind us every day of Your Grace, Your Mercies, and Your Loving Kindness to us and to all of mankind.

Lord God, we remember the many times that You have delivered us from troubles. We know that You have made a way for us, where there was no way in our own strength. Whenever the children of Israel questioned about the stones stacked on river bank, they would never forget what God has done for them. Whenever our children ask us about this generations stack of stones, we should be eager to relate the history of the Presence of God in our daily lives.

As we today, look upon the hillsides of Arlington Cemetery, on the banks of the Potomac River, at the  thousands of “head stones” that mark the lives of our people that gave their ALL for our country; let us always tell our children that God provided a way for us to have “Freedom” to worship Him. That these lives were never wasted! Teach our children to always remember that what you do for yourself, will die with you. However, what you do for others will live on and be remembered by God, for your name is written in the Lamb’s Book of Life!

Amen and Amen!