Father, Today i thank you for all those who have sacrificed their lives for our freedoms, I pray for their loved ones and families that your grace will be upon them. I thank you as well for those missionaries on the foreign and home fields who too have given their lives without much if any notice in the church and the wider world, they too sacrificed their lives and sacred honor that your Kingdom would come, on earth as it is in haven. 

Bless I pray these your servants on this and every day, with strength and courage to stay in the fight against all odds and opposition. Lift their hearts as they labor under a burden they didn't ask for, working with people who don't always understand what they must do to stand with them and for them, in places where many wish and want them to 'go away!' These too are soldiers in a war often waged in the spirit realm. 

I thank you for their willingness to follow your lead into the unknown and the darkness, may their fear no evil, for your rod and your staff comfort them, even in those moments of personal and corporate struggles. Somehow, may they lift up their heads and face the Son and see your face smiling on them. Grant courage to fight on. May the word of this often forgotten hymn ring true in their hearts: 

"Onward Christian soldiers, marching as to war, with the cross of Jesus going on before. Christ, the royal master, leads against the foe; forward into battle see his banners go!"               

You have made us warriors and winners in a great spiritual battle, we thank you that we don't fight alone! Bless these your people as they go forward into another week of service. I Jesus great name I pray. AMEN!!!

 T.A.B.