God's Air Supremacy

For some reason lately I have been reflecting a lot lately on my experiences in the Marines during Panama and the Persian Gulf War- Desert Sheild/Storm.


Panama was a cat and mouse game that we had to play with the PDF that required us to be very alert and sober, but Desert Storm was a battle the big guns won and where we had air supremacy and this truly allowed us to run Sadaam's men out of Kuwait. Here is an experience of a Marine out there who came so close to the enemy that he practically had to call down fire on himself:




I never came that close and never even saw the enemy although I was a front line infantry Marine. I did survive two scud missile attacks and was involved in mine countermeasures and this makes me a combat veteran although I never once shot my weapon or killed anyone. I did have a close call in Panama and had to protect two locals who were being shot at by the PDF but chose not to fire on the PDF that night due to the tight rules of engagement along with knowing a firefight would get those men killed. As a battalion we had a confrontation with Noriegas men in the jungle as well and I sort of know the fear that this man speaks of here, but when people ask me if I killed anyone, for which some reason I get asked a lot; I just don't know what to say; but I do know that although I was trained to kill I was also trained to protect lives and in Panama I completed my missions safely and saved two lives. A lot of you may not know that prior to the invasion there were a lot of secret operations, and I was involved in some of them. Study the history. God was good there as well as we were operating around Araijan and in a very hot area where firefights were sporadically breaking out and where some Marines did get killed.

Just the other day I made a delivery down in the Jacksonville N.C. area, to a retired Marine who was in the same unit with me in Desert Storm. To help you understand something I must tell you that I was released when I returned and medals were passed out a few months and years afterward; and so he told me of all the war medals we received that I did not get. I have sent away to the retired records division to ask for them. He informed me that they count as points in some civilian jobs dealing with the government and it is important for my VA benefits as well. Please pray for me in receiving those please.

Then....

Just this week I heard the late Pastor Adrian Rogers speaking about his memories of how Americans were flooding into church during Desert Storm and calling out to God.

Truly it was a time of great fear and I can remember getting things right with God out there as well and God was faithful to see us through these attacks and mines and I also survived a fatal catastrophe out there where 10 lives were lost. It breaks my heart sometimes, when I think about how faithful God has been in my life and how unfaithful I have often been in return.

Adrian Rogers went on to point out in the message, that we build our golden calfs because at the heart we want to give the glory to ourselves or something else besides God and he reminded us that the whole country during Desert Storm was giving glory to God and then at the end of it we turned away to our golden calfs again.

We grow impatient and forget that the battle belongs to the Lord. I can remember being out there and giving thanks to God that we had air supremacy in this war, but still knowing I was in harms way. Still, if you have air supremacy, then you have the upper hand. Sadaam had 1 millon and we were only 574,000 strong and outnumbered even though that is the biggest build up we have had for any war.

We were promised the "Mother of all battles" but it ended, as the honorable Mr Cheney put it, the "Mother of all retreats". We ran the bully out of town. God was good and merciful to us back then.

I've only gotten myself into trouble when I forget that God has Air Supremacy where we can call down fire on the bullies that tempt and taunt us as believers and that the battle belongs to the Lord.

I never fired my weapons out there and came away from that war feeling like I did so little and that I had nothing to boast in, but I guess that is the whole point and God's way of grace to make it known to mankind. The medals are really the Lords doing. My combat action ribbon and the Liberation of Kuwait medal and Saudi Medal, Southwest Asia and a couple others he told me about. It was all the Lord's doing. Truly, whatever we pin on our chest or on our walls belong to Him.

The battle belongs to the Lord.

Grace upon grace,

Brian

No More Night

Have You Struggled In This Area?

Our dear brother David has posted about something that may be helpful to many of us who have struggled in this area, but for fear of intimidation from other brethren, we have not had the courage to vocalize it and rest upon Jesus instead of others and their experiences.

Truth rules over experience. We are saved by a Saviour; not a day.

Good post David!

I Don't Know?

We may not know exactly when, but we do know WHO saved us:-)

Grace upon grace,

Brian

It is coming folks----->The Prime Minister Calling For A Global Order

As the world cries out for an Anti-Christ saviour and new union order, may we call out to our God and Saviour Jesus Christ, who has begotten us into his New Covenant union, to return for us quickly and to re-create the new heaven and earth so that we will finally have true order and peace.

Until then, we remind ourselves that we do have peace and that Jesus has already overcome the world and he lives within all of us who have been begotten of Him in His death, burial and resurrection into the love of the Father and that He loves us as He loves His own Son Jesus that He gave for us to redeem us back unto Himself. We are his precious possessions and we need not call for a peace here on earth now that the world desires only to live in rebellion longer and without Him.

Grace upon grace,

Brian

Don't Miss This Post By Terry

Another good one by Terry----->Here

Don't miss it...

Grace upon grace,

Brian

And For Love Of My Wife

Happy Valentines Day


"After All These Years"

A faded wedding photograph
You and me in our first dance
Our eyes are closed
We're lost in one sweet embrace

Since those days the world has changed
But our love remains the same
God knows we've had our share of saving grace

And I'm proud of all the blessings you have given me
The mountains we have climbed to get this far
We've learned to take the laughter with the tears
After all these years

You make it feel brand new
After the fires that we walked through
Against the odds we never lost our faith

In a house we made our home
Where our children all have grown
Precious moments time cannot erase

Make a living up and down the gypsy highways
The seasons that we had to share apart
Somehow in my heart I always keep you near
After all these years

After all these years
You stood by me the days and nights that I was gone
After all these years
You sacrificed, believed in me, and you stood strong
Cause with our love there's nothing left to fear
After all these years

After all these years
You stood by me the days and nights that I was gone
After all these years
You sacrificed, believed in me, and you stood strong
Cause with our love there's nothing left to fear
After all these years

-Journey

....still livin on love by the grace of God honey:-)

I love you

God even gave us a sweet memory from our first blind date where we walked along the beach and I gave you my sweater to keep you warm on that chilly night as I watched you see the ocean for the first time in your life:-)

The New Earth Movement

Now that Obama has risen to power, calling all of us to be more and more accepting of all religions and non believers; and with Oprah Winfrey's strong support; It behooves us to be harmless as doves in respect to these people, with the understanding that God has sovereignly placed them into such place of power and influence; but to also be wise as serpents; with the understanding that God also tests the hearts of men to see what gods we will follow:

The God of the bible or the gods that the world, the flesh and the devil are continuing to construct after the imaginations of the human mind, that is foreign to God?

The carnal mind is at enmity with God.

In this strong day of falling away, may we see through the deceptions and apostasy and be found in Christ having faith with nothing wavering.

Dr Lutzer does a good job exposing the deceptions and calling us to stay awake in our faith:

On The New Earth Movement