{"id":1637,"date":"2009-12-02T00:30:44","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T08:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=1637"},"modified":"2009-12-01T18:49:49","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T02:49:49","slug":"chaplain-brings-faith-with-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/02\/chaplain-brings-faith-with-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaplain Brings Faith with Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Army Chaplain has made his mark by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.army.mil\/-news\/2009\/10\/22\/29204-chaplain-brings-faith-to-his-soldiers\/\">praying with soldiers before every convoy<\/a> departs Al Asad, Iraq.\u00a0 Chaplain (Capt.) Michael Lanigan is the 41st Infantry Brigade Combat Team Chaplain.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I come out here every night, this is exactly what I feel like God has designed me to do&#8211;to bring faith to the fight in a place where men and women just need encouragement.&#8221;\u00a0 Lanigan said that he does not inspire with just his words, but with God&#8217;s words, and that he believes that is a powerful thing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Chaplain also notes that faith, not his position as Chaplain, is what the\u00a0Soldiers <!--more-->seek.\u00a0 The troops will often pray among themselves:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The great thing is that it is not just about me; a lot of the other Soldiers and platoons will choose someone with a strong faith to give their own prayer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Chaplain desires to serve his Soldiers, and provide them the reassurance that God is with them.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lanigan believes there is a rewarding experience which exists in serving Soldiers, and said, &#8220;Anytime they can be reassured that God&#8217;s with them when they face difficult times, it is all good.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.army.mil\/-images\/2009\/10\/22\/53904\/army.mil-53904-2009-10-23-081030.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/images\/convoypray2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"522\" height=\"347\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><em>Photo credit: US Army\u00a0Spc. Cory Grogan<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Army Chaplain has made his mark by praying with soldiers before every convoy departs Al Asad, Iraq.\u00a0 Chaplain (Capt.) Michael Lanigan is the 41st Infantry Brigade Combat Team Chaplain. &#8220;I come out here every night, this is exactly what I feel like God has designed me to do&#8211;to bring faith to the fight in a place where men and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4,75,52,2,11,17,10],"class_list":["post-1637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-churchandstate","tag-invocation","tag-iraq","tag-military","tag-prayer","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}