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"K C" |
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24 Jun 2004 09:44:06 AM |
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FDR's battle prayer |
In 1945 FDR sent out troops off to another shore to fight for the
freedom of others and security of ourselves (not unlike our current
situation). In that desperate hour, he knew where to turn for help,
God. He immediately turned the nation to God with a prayer request.
Here is the first paragraph of that prayer.
FDR's 1945 battle prayer request to the nation.
"Last night, when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I
knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our
Allies were crossing the Channel in another and greater operation.
It has come to pass with success thus far.
"And so, in this poignant hour, I ask you to join with me in
prayer: Almighty God: our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have
set
upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our
religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.
Lead them straight and true; give strength to their arms,
stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness in their faith.
They will need Thy blessings. Their road will be long and hard.
For the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces. Success may
not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again and again;
and we know that by Thy grace, and by the righteousness of our
cause, our sons will triumph."
KC
http://providential-plan.com/undergod.html
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| User: "Crazy Bastard" |
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| Title: Re: FDR's battle prayer |
24 Jun 2004 10:22:10 AM |
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"K C" <kands00@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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In 1945 FDR sent out troops off to another shore to fight for the
freedom of others and security of ourselves (not unlike our current
situation). In that desperate hour, he knew where to turn for help,
God. He immediately turned the nation to God with a prayer request.
Here is the first paragraph of that prayer.
FDR's 1945 battle prayer request to the nation.
"Last night, when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I
knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our
Allies were crossing the Channel in another and greater operation.
It has come to pass with success thus far.
"And so, in this poignant hour, I ask you to join with me in
prayer: Almighty God: our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have
set
upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our
religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.
Lead them straight and true; give strength to their arms,
stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness in their faith.
They will need Thy blessings. Their road will be long and hard.
For the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces. Success may
not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again and again;
and we know that by Thy grace, and by the righteousness of our
cause, our sons will triumph."
KC
http://providential-plan.com/undergod.html
Thanks!!
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| User: "Robyn Lee" |
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24 Jun 2004 07:07:04 PM |
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***** Mad Ken strikes again! Need I say more?
Wet Ones,
Robyn
http://profiles.yahoo.com/bobbilee_trannie
Yahoo IM msrobynlee2000
"K C" <kands00@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:2aab65fe.0406240644.52a81e24@posting.google.com...
In 1945 FDR sent out troops off to another shore to fight for the
freedom of others and security of ourselves (not unlike our current
situation). In that desperate hour, he knew where to turn for help,
God. He immediately turned the nation to God with a prayer request.
Here is the first paragraph of that prayer.
FDR's 1945 battle prayer request to the nation.
"Last night, when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I
knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our
Allies were crossing the Channel in another and greater operation.
It has come to pass with success thus far.
"And so, in this poignant hour, I ask you to join with me in
prayer: Almighty God: our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have
set
upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our
religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.
Lead them straight and true; give strength to their arms,
stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness in their faith.
They will need Thy blessings. Their road will be long and hard.
For the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces. Success may
not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again and again;
and we know that by Thy grace, and by the righteousness of our
cause, our sons will triumph."
KC
http://providential-plan.com/undergod.html
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| User: "Crazy Bastard" |
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25 Jun 2004 12:03:43 PM |
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"Robyn Lee" <msrobynlee@woh.rr.com> wrote in message
news:I0KCc.31$tL.7@fe1.columbus.rr.com...
***** Mad Ken strikes again! Need I say more?
OH!! GAWD!!! NOT THAT UGLY HOMO IN A DRESS AGAIN!!!!!
OH!! GAWD!!! NOT THAT UGLY HOMO IN A DRESS AGAIN!!!!!
All you can think of Ken is his "*****" !!!!!!!!!!
OH!! GAWD!!! NOT THAT UGLY HOMO IN A DRESS AGAIN!!!!!
OH!! GAWD!!! NOT THAT UGLY HOMO IN A DRESS AGAIN!!!!!
Wet Ones,
Robyn
http://profiles.yahoo.com/bobbilee_trannie
Yahoo IM msrobynlee2000
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| User: "K C" |
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26 Jun 2004 05:57:37 PM |
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"Robyn Lee" <msrobynlee@woh.rr.com> wrote in message news:<I0KCc.31$tL.7@fe1.columbus.rr.com>...
***** Mad Ken strikes again! Need I say more?
Wet Ones,
Robyn
If I bug you so much, why do you read my posts? Ignore me. Do you
actually think I listen to your comments after so many like the ones
above?
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| User: "free" |
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24 Jun 2004 10:47:53 AM |
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K C wrote:
In 1945 FDR sent out troops off to another shore to fight for the
freedom of others and security of ourselves (not unlike our current
situation). In that desperate hour, he knew where to turn for help,
God. He immediately turned the nation to God with a prayer request.
Here is the first paragraph of that prayer.
FDR's 1945 battle prayer request to the nation.
"Last night, when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I
knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our
Allies were crossing the Channel in another and greater operation.
It has come to pass with success thus far.
"And so, in this poignant hour, I ask you to join with me in
prayer: Almighty God: our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have
set
upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our
religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.
Lead them straight and true; give strength to their arms,
stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness in their faith.
They will need Thy blessings. Their road will be long and hard.
For the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces. Success may
not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again and again;
and we know that by Thy grace, and by the righteousness of our
cause, our sons will triumph."
KC
http://providential-plan.com/undergod.html
Welcome to the new religious socialism, Americians
have forgotten that individual liberty does mean
that Presidents can and do pander to their own
values but until Bush no President has trampled
individual liberty and it's ideals so ruthlessly.
The fact that no President has been a non-Christian,
no President a women, or a minority, says the most
about the state of Democracy in the USA. Even the USSR
had white communist men as it's favored leaders,
the USA has only white christian men!
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| User: "Crazy Bastard" |
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24 Jun 2004 01:03:29 PM |
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"free" <free@freedom.place> wrote in message
news:40DAF7A9.2040605@freedom.place...
The fact that no President has been a non-Christian,
America is 80% CHRISTIAN, you DUMBASS.
no President a women,
Dumbass...
or a minority,
America is 80% WHITE, you DUMBASS.
Even the USSR
had white communist men as it's favored leaders,
the USA has only white christian men!
What abouot the UK, Canada, France, Germany and Spain???
How many women, blacks, transvestites, talking pygmy spider ants, or
space-aliens have been leader in those countries?????
You Dumbass.
You are soo fucking completely stupid!!
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| User: "Bob" |
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24 Jun 2004 01:06:32 PM |
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"Crazy *****" <crazyodb@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:RHECc.14899$mG4.4982@nwrddc03.gnilink.net...
"free" <free@freedom.place> wrote in message
news:40DAF7A9.2040605@freedom.place...
The fact that no President has been a non-Christian,
America is 80% CHRISTIAN, you DUMBASS.
no President a women,
Dumbass...
or a minority,
America is 80% WHITE, you DUMBASS.
Even the USSR
had white communist men as it's favored leaders,
the USA has only white christian men!
What abouot the UK, Canada, France, Germany and Spain???
How many women, blacks, transvestites, talking pygmy spider ants, or
space-aliens have been leader in those countries?????
I think France may qualify.
You Dumbass.
You are soo fucking completely stupid!!
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| User: "Crazy Bastard" |
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24 Jun 2004 02:09:49 PM |
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"Bob" <no@email.address> wrote in message
news:ODECc.436$ak6.222@bignews5.bellsouth.net...
"Crazy *****" <crazyodb@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:RHECc.14899$mG4.4982@nwrddc03.gnilink.net...
"free" <free@freedom.place> wrote in message
news:40DAF7A9.2040605@freedom.place...
The fact that no President has been a non-Christian,
America is 80% CHRISTIAN, you DUMBASS.
no President a women,
Dumbass...
or a minority,
America is 80% WHITE, you DUMBASS.
Even the USSR
had white communist men as it's favored leaders,
the USA has only white christian men!
What abouot the UK, Canada, France, Germany and Spain???
How many women, blacks, transvestites, talking pygmy spider ants, or
space-aliens have been leader in those countries?????
I think France may qualify.
Point!!
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| User: "free" |
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24 Jun 2004 01:50:34 PM |
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Crazy ***** wrote:
"free" <free@freedom.place> wrote in message
news:40DAF7A9.2040605@freedom.place...
The fact that no President has been a non-Christian,
America is 80% CHRISTIAN, you DUMBASS.
no President a women,
Dumbass...
or a minority,
America is 80% WHITE, you DUMBASS.
Even the USSR
had white communist men as it's favored leaders,
the USA has only white christian men!
What abouot the UK, Canada, France, Germany and Spain???
How many women, blacks, transvestites, talking pygmy spider ants, or
space-aliens have been leader in those countries?????
You Dumbass.
You are soo fucking completely stupid!!
You have a nasty mouth.
Benjamin Disraeli was a Jewish Conservative PM Twice
of Great Britian at the Height of Empire.
Thatcher was the first female PM of the UK
Francis Mitterand President of France was an atheist.
Maybe if you weren't so ignorant you might not be such a fool.
Americans are so afraid of having a non-Christian, non-male,
non-white rule them, I mean what sort of systemic hate are
you running in the USA. Oh no the liberals are coming!
Cripps what afraid of a bunch of liberals, yeah, the USA
ruled by fearful cowardice.
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| User: "Crazy Bastard" |
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25 Jun 2004 12:00:47 PM |
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"free" <free@freedom.place> wrote in message
news:40DB227A.1030902@freedom.place...
Crazy ***** wrote:
"free" <free@freedom.place> wrote in message
news:40DAF7A9.2040605@freedom.place...
The fact that no President has been a non-Christian,
America is 80% CHRISTIAN, you DUMBASS.
no President a women,
Dumbass...
or a minority,
America is 80% WHITE, you DUMBASS.
Even the USSR
had white communist men as it's favored leaders,
the USA has only white christian men!
What abouot the UK, Canada, France, Germany and Spain???
How many women, blacks, transvestites, talking pygmy spider ants, or
space-aliens have been leader in those countries?????
You Dumbass.
You are soo fucking completely stupid!!
You have a nasty mouth.
So?
Benjamin Disraeli was a Jewish Conservative PM Twice
of Great Britian at the Height of Empire.
White guy.
Thatcher was the first female PM of the UK
White broad.
Francis Mitterand President of France was an atheist.
White guy.
Maybe if you weren't so ignorant you might not be such a fool.
Americans are so afraid of having a non-Christian, non-male,
non-white rule them, I mean what sort of systemic hate are
you running in the USA.
America is 80% CHRISTIAN, America is 80% WHITE, you DUMBASS.
Anybody can run for President.
Oh no the liberals are coming!
We're fully loaded and cocked. We're ready.
Cripps what afraid of a bunch of liberals, yeah, the USA
ruled by fearful cowardice.
You still don't get it....
America is 80% CHRISTIAN, America is 80% WHITE, you DUMBASS.
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| User: "Johnny Bravo" |
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08 Jul 2004 06:37:03 AM |
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Teresa Heinz Kerry's pubic hair sticks out the side of her
underwear--GROSS!!
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| User: "K C" |
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26 Jun 2004 05:56:01 PM |
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free <free@freedom.place> wrote in message news:<40DAF7A9.2040605@freedom.place>...
K C wrote:
In 1945 FDR sent out troops off to another shore to fight for the
freedom of others and security of ourselves (not unlike our current
situation). In that desperate hour, he knew where to turn for help,
God. He immediately turned the nation to God with a prayer request.
Here is the first paragraph of that prayer.
FDR's 1945 battle prayer request to the nation.
"Last night, when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I
knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our
Allies were crossing the Channel in another and greater operation.
It has come to pass with success thus far.
"And so, in this poignant hour, I ask you to join with me in
prayer: Almighty God: our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have
set
upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our
religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.
Lead them straight and true; give strength to their arms,
stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness in their faith.
They will need Thy blessings. Their road will be long and hard.
For the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces. Success may
not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again and again;
and we know that by Thy grace, and by the righteousness of our
cause, our sons will triumph."
KC
http://providential-plan.com/undergod.html
Welcome to the new religious socialism, Americians
have forgotten that individual liberty does mean
that Presidents can and do pander to their own
values but until Bush no President has trampled
individual liberty and it's ideals so ruthlessly.
The fact that no President has been a non-Christian,
no President a women, or a minority, says the most
about the state of Democracy in the USA. Even the USSR
had white communist men as it's favored leaders,
the USA has only white christian men!
Melodramatic statement. Democracy means the people rule. The
majority are Christian...hence...the Presidents are Christian. No
biggie.
http://providential-plan.com
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| User: "Ninure Saunders" |
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24 Jun 2004 10:45:16 AM |
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The War Prayer
by Mark Twain
It was a time of great and exalting excitement. The country was up in
arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism;
the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the
bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every hand and far down
the receding and fading spread of roofs and balconies a fluttering
wilderness of flags flashed in the sun; daily the young volunteers marched
down the wide avenue gay and fine in their new uniforms, the proud fathers
and mothers and sisters and sweethearts cheering them with voices choked
with happy emotion as they swung by; nightly the packed mass meetings
listened, panting, to patriot oratory which stirred the deepest deeps of
their hearts, and which they interrupted at briefest intervals with
cyclones of applause, the tears running down their cheeks the while; in
the churches the pastors preached devotion to flag and country, and
invoked the God of Battles beseeching His aid in our good cause in
outpourings of fervid eloquence which moved every listener.
It was indeed a glad and gracious time, and the half dozen rash spirits
that ventured to disapprove of the war and cast a doubt upon its
righteousness straightway got such a stern and angry warning that for
their personal safety's sake they quickly shrank out of sight and offended
no more in that way.
Sunday morning came -- next day the battalions would leave for the front;
the church was filled; the volunteers were there, their young faces alight
with martial dreams -- visions of the stern advance, the gathering
momentum, the rushing charge, the flashing sabers, the flight of the foe,
the tumult, the enveloping smoke, the fierce pursuit, the surrender! Then
home from the war, bronzed heroes, welcomed, adored, submerged in golden
seas of glory! With the volunteers sat their dear ones, proud, happy, and
envied by the neighbors and friends who had no sons and brothers to send
forth to the field of honor, there to win for the flag, or, failing, die
the noblest of noble deaths. The service proceeded; a war chapter from the
Old Testament was read; the first prayer was said; it was followed by an
organ burst that shook the building, and with one impulse the house rose,
with glowing eyes and beating hearts, and poured out that tremendous
invocation --
God the all-terrible! Thou who ordainest! Thunder thy clarion and
lightning thy sword!
Then came the "long" prayer. None could remember the like of it for
passionate pleading and moving and beautiful language. The burden of its
supplication was, that an ever-merciful and benignant Father of us all
would watch over our noble young soldiers, and aid, comfort, and encourage
them in their patriotic work; bless them, shield them in the day of battle
and the hour of peril, bear them in His mighty hand, make them strong and
confident, invincible in the bloody onset; help them to crush the foe,
grant to them and to their flag and country imperishable honor and glory
--
An aged stranger entered and moved with slow and noiseless step up the
main aisle, his eyes fixed upon the minister, his long body clothed in a
robe that reached to his feet, his head bare, his white hair descending in
a frothy cataract to his shoulders, his seamy face unnaturally pale, pale
even to ghastliness. With all eyes following him and wondering, he made
his silent way; without pausing, he ascended to the preacher's side and
stood there waiting. With shut lids the preacher, unconscious of his
presence, continued with his moving prayer, and at last finished it with
the words, uttered in fervent appeal, "Bless our arms, grant us the
victory, O Lord our God, Father and Protector of our land and flag!"
The stranger touched his arm, motioned him to step aside -- which the
startled minister did -- and took his place. During some moments he
surveyed the spellbound audience with solemn eyes, in which burned an
uncanny light; then in a deep voice he said:
"I come from the Throne -- bearing a message from Almighty God!" The words
smote the house with a shock; if the stranger perceived it he gave no
attention. "He has heard the prayer of His servant your shepherd, and will
grant it if such shall be your desire after I, His messenger, shall have
explained to you its import -- that is to say, its full import. For it is
like unto many of the prayers of men, in that it asks for more than he who
utters it is aware of -- except he pause and think.
"God's servant and yours has prayed his prayer. Has he paused and taken
thought? Is it one prayer? No, it is two -- one uttered, the other not.
Both have reached the ear of Him Who heareth all supplications, the spoken
and the unspoken. Ponder this -- keep it in mind. If you would beseech a
blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse
upon a neighbor at the same time. If you pray for the blessing of rain
upon your crop which needs it, by that act you are possibly praying for a
curse upon some neighbor's crop which may not need rain and can be injured
by it.
"You have heard your servant's prayer -- the uttered part of it. I am
commissioned of God to put into words the other part of it -- that part
which the pastor -- and also you in your hearts -- fervently prayed
silently. And ignorantly and unthinkingly? God grant that it was so! You
heard these words: 'Grant us the victory, O Lord our God!' That is
sufficient. the whole of the uttered prayer is compact into those pregnant
words. Elaborations were not necessary. When you have prayed for victory
you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victory -- must
follow it, cannot help but follow it. Upon the listening spirit of God
fell also the unspoken part of the prayer. He commandeth me to put it into
words. Listen!
"O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to
battle -- be Thou near them! With them -- in spirit -- we also go forth
from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our
God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help
us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot
dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their
wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a
hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows
with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little
children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags
and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy
winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for
the refuge of the grave and denied it -- for our sakes who adore Thee,
Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter
pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears,
stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in
the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the
ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His
aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.
(After a pause.) "Ye have prayed it; if ye still desire it, speak! The
messenger of the Most High waits!"
It was believed afterward that the man was a lunatic, because there was no
sense in what he said.
Ninure Saunders aka Rainbow Christian
http://Rainbow-Christian.tk
The Lord is my Shepherd and He knows I'm Gay
http://Ninure-Saunders.tk
My Polling Place
http://ninure.100megsfree5.com
My Yahoo Group
http://Ninure.tk
My Online Diary
http://www.ninure.deardiary.net
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http://www.MCCchurch.org
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| User: "Roger" |
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26 Jun 2004 05:57:01 AM |
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Weasel
"K C" <kands00@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:2aab65fe.0406240644.52a81e24@posting.google.com...
In 1945 FDR sent out troops off to another shore to fight for the
freedom of others and security of ourselves (not unlike our current
situation). In that desperate hour, he knew where to turn for help,
God. He immediately turned the nation to God with a prayer request.
Here is the first paragraph of that prayer.
FDR's 1945 battle prayer request to the nation.
"Last night, when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I
knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our
Allies were crossing the Channel in another and greater operation.
It has come to pass with success thus far.
"And so, in this poignant hour, I ask you to join with me in
prayer: Almighty God: our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have
set
upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our
religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.
Lead them straight and true; give strength to their arms,
stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness in their faith.
They will need Thy blessings. Their road will be long and hard.
For the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces. Success may
not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again and again;
and we know that by Thy grace, and by the righteousness of our
cause, our sons will triumph."
KC
http://providential-plan.com/undergod.html
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