Prayer for Veteran's Day

Ok, it's been quite a long time since I posted. I wrote a prayer yesterday for our prayer meeting. Our emphasis was on our veterans, since it was Veterans Day.

Veteran’s Day Prayer – November 11, 2009
Todd Hitchcock

We acknowledge today, Heavenly Father, your protection, blessing and divine movement throughout the young history of the United States of America. Under your guidance and through your will we have been blessed beyond all we could ask or imagine. We pray your continued presence and power on our nation. We humbly submit our failings and our sin. We ask for your mercy, for grace and forgiveness. We pray, “God bless America.”

Since the founding of our nation, “conceived in liberty,” countless men and women have stepped forward to defend our country and many others from aggressors in a commitment to liberate those held captive, spiritually and physically.

We ask for your blessing on all those who have served in our armed forces. We ask for healing through the power of your Holy Spirit for the veterans who have been wounded, in body and soul.

We especially pray for the men and women, who daily come home with injured bodies and traumatized spirits. Bring peace to them and we pray they would find the Price of Peace.

Heavenly Father, in appreciation we pray for the selfless sacrifice of these veterans and of their families. Help us to remember them, to pray for them, and to care for them. We pray for consolation to every veteran’s family with your unfailing love.

Thank you, O God, for your gifts of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and for a nation that is the land of the free and the home of the brave! May we fight to keep these rights available to us all.

In Jesus name we pray. Amen.