Raise Your Voice!

Today we celebrate the National Day of Prayer. Memorial Day, at the end of the month, is when we remember those who died in service to our country. Let’s not leave the majority of those serving today without a prayer. “Endowed by Their Creator” is a collection of historic American military prayers spanning from 1774-present. Get this case for prayer and give/send it to someone serving so that they will know they have a right to pray as they read the history, the case, and the 100s of prayers in the book that serve as “evidence” that America is a nation that values prayer.

Prayer is under attack in the military institution on the national day of prayer. As a Vietnam combat veteran, 34 years as a Marine officer, a former Defense official, and a lawyer, I spent 10 years collecting American military prayer books from before the nation’s founding to the present day. I did this research not as a man of the church, but as lawyer to make the case for the “military necessity” of prayer, because there are ‘no atheists in foxholes’. I found that while over 70 percent of those serving today in the US military self identify as Christians, their Chaplains are threatened and discouraged from praying in the name of their God, Jesus Christ and leaders are officially prohibited from leading their troops in pray – even in battle in this One Nation Under God. – Colonel Ronald D. Ray, USMCR

Share this message today with your friends and family and do not let the prayers of our soldiers go unheard.