As you can see, prayer is communicating with God. Prayer is a one on one conversation with the only person who many times is the only one who can help. Prayer is conversation from the deepest part of your heart to the Almighty Creator. Prayer is telling God what is on your mind and what is in your heart.raying for others. When we pray for others, we become partners with God in his work of salvation, healing, comfort, and justice. God can certainly accomplish those things without us, but he gives us the privilege of being involved with him through prayer.
At the time of his retirement, Col. Bowen was the longest active U.S. Marine on duty. Col. Edmund J. Brown. His retirement ceremony was attended by numerous family and friends who traveled from across the country to Quantico, Va., and then to Washington, D.C., to the Marine Corps Base.
President Obama is sending 30,000 more troops here, expanding a war that by the end of 2010 will be the nation's longest. The cycles of combat have been so long and so frequent that nearly 13,000 soldiers now have spent three to four cumulative years at war in Iraq or Afghanistan, according to Army records. About 500 GIs have spent more than four years in combat, the Army says.