Occasional Prayers

O Almighty Lord God, the Father and Protector of all that trust in thee: We commend to thy fatherly goodness the men and women who through perils of war are serving this nation by land or sea or in the air; beseeching thee to take into thine own hand both them and the cause they serve. Be thou their strength when they are set in the midst of so many and great dangers. Make all bold through death or life to put their trust in thee, who art the only giver of victory and canst save by many or by few; through Jesus Christ our Lord.