June 13, 2016

I Kings 8:23, 56-
Lord, the God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven above or earth below--You who keep Your covenant of love with Your servants who continue wholeheartedly in Your way. 
May the Lord our God be with us as He was with our ancestors; may He never leave us nor forsake us. May He turn our hearts to Him, to walk in obedience to Him and keep the commands, decrees and laws He gave our ancestors. 

Thank You Lord. Thank You for giving us this family--You as our Father, and all of our brothers and sisters. Thank You for the pastors who have helped shape us along the way. Thank You for the Sunday School teachers who had joy in seeing us and prayed for us. Thank You for the teachers who helped us work through thoughts.
Thank You Lord for dear friends who held our hands through the tough times. Thank You for the ones who inspired us to do great things. Thank You for the examples of the saints. Thank You for the saint next door who watched our kids. Thank You for breaking through our loneliness with sisters surrounding us--You, in the flesh.
Thank You for the chaplains Lord. Thank You for the ones brave enough to go into the battle with only a cross on their uniform. Thank You for the Christian leaders who believed in and pushed for greatness out of their soldiers. Thank You for Your light shining in the deepest dark through these broken vessels.
Thank You for Your chapels--sanctuary from the world.
Thank You for the prayer warriors we may never know about.

Ephesians 3:16-21
I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.

Lord, we pray against compassion fatigue. We pray against spiritual depression. We pray against PTSD.
We pray against apathy!
We pray You will strengthen Your children, Your military warriors with power. Give our chaplains, our Christian warriors, David's heart.

And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord's holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge--that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us, to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.

How deep the love!
Filled with the fullness of God!
Immeasurably more!
Lord we pray that for our chapels, our PWOCs, our small groups, our youth groups, our Sunday Schools and VBS. We pray that for our ministries: Planting Roots, Cadence, Christian Fellowship and more.
The world around us is dying--killing itself. Fill us with Your Spirit Lord. Use us to do more than we can imagine.

We pray our leaders will allow Your leading, including the Chief of Chaplains' office.
We pray we can minister to our hurting veterans. Lord save them from suicide.
We pray for our ministries as PCS season turns everything upside down.
We pray for new fellowship groups we can lock arms with in our new posts.
We pray for our Christian marriages.
And Lord, please keep our deployed safe. Guard their hearts. May they turn to You.

....so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the Lord is God and that there is no other. And may your hearts be fully committed to the Lord our God, to live by His decrees and obey His commands, as at this time.