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Combatting Veteran Suicide

Some wars aren't over—but they can be. There is someone who understands everything you have endured. He doesn’t want you bailing out; he wants to make you whole. In the Bible, God holds out to you hope and healing.

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A Warrior Cries Out in his Distress

Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my neck. I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me.
(Psalm 69:1-2 ESV)

Read Psalm 69

Speaking Truth to Your Soul

Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.
(Psalm 42:5 ESV)

Read Psalm 42 and 43

A Song of Deliverance from a Warrior in Distress

In my distress I called upon the LORD; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears.
(Psalm 18:6 ESV)

Read Psalm 18

Jesus Calms the Storm

And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace! Be Still!” And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
(Mark 4:39 ESV)

Read Mark 4:35-41

An Explanation of How Jesus Christ Delivers Us

But I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
(Romans 7:23-24 ESV)

Read the book of Romans

What New Life with God Looks Like

...to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
(Ephesians 2:4-5 ESV)

Read the book of Ephesians

Theme Verse

Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.

PSALM 103:2-5 ESV

Combatting Veteran Suicide

Article: 11 Min

Naaman: What a Syrian Soldier Teaches Us About Jesus

by Bibles.net

Veteran Crisis Lifeline

Text 838255, or Call and push 1

Suicide Prevention Lifeline

Call 1-800-273-8255

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Video: 4 Min

HEARING THE HEALING

Tormented by hallucinations and PTSD,
this Australian serviceman couldn't read.
But listening to God's Word has healed
his mind, body, and soul.

by YouVersion

Verse

Hebrews 10:39 NIV

But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved.

Video: 6 Min

Saved from Suicide

Nick served several combat tours with the Army and Marines. Angry at God, overcome by PTSD, and divorced, he attempted suicide. Here’s how God intervened.

by CBN

Verse

Psalm 33:18-19 NIV

The eyes of the Lord are on those who fear him, on those whose hope is in his unfailing love, to deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine.

Video: 6 Min

"God of Revival"
Live Song Performance

Dear God, help our friend who listens
to this song believe that you can be
the light in their darkness and revive their soul.
We pray in Jesus' mighty name, amen.

by The Worship Initiative

Article: 32 Min

Veteran Suicide: Why Does It Happen and What Can We Do About It?

by Joshua D. Holler

Article: 7 Min

The Hardest Battle: Veterans, Suicide, and the Struggle for Identity

By Josh Holler at Desiring God Ministries: 1st Battalion 7th Marine Regiment, who served in Iraq twice between 2007–2009

Video: 15 Min

Chad's Story:
Veteran and
Pro MMA
Champion

Jujitsu and the wrestling mats couldn’t
heal Chad’s rage, panic attacks, PTSD,
or restore his conscience and family.
God’s Word changed his life.

by I Am Second

Video: 7 Min

A Prayer From
the Journal of
An Ancient Warrior

Listen carefully to the words of Psalm 18—
the opened journal of the soldier David.
This is his testimony of the deliverance
God worked in his life.

by Psallo Collective

Verse

2 Corinthians 10:3-5 NIV

For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

Folk | Indie

We Remember

by Steven Curtis Chapman

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It's Always Been You

by Phil Wickham

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Stay

by Quinten Coblentz feat. Eris Ford

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Dear Veteran, Here's How to Heal

We may further say that the most sorrowful and the most sinful are welcome to the Lord Jesus.

The most sorrowful may come; I mean those in depair, those who are at their wits’ ends, those poor souls who, through superabundant difficulty are ready to do the most unreasonable things—ready, it may even be, to give way to that wicked, Satanic temptation of rushing from this present life into a world unknown by their own hand.

Go, sorrowful one, go now to Jesus, whose tender heart will feel for you … first and foremost, in a flood of tears, reveal your case to the great invisible helper. Kneel down and tell him all that racks your spirit and fills your tortured mind and plead the promise.

Spurgeon, MTP, vol. 13, 157 (“A Troubled Prayer”).

by Charles Spurgeon

Verse

A Prayer for Strength

When I think of all this, I fall to my knees and pray to the Father,the Creator of everything in heaven and on earth.I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will empower you with inner strength through his Spirit. Then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him. Your roots will grow down into God’s love and keep you strong. And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God.

Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think. Glory to him in the church and in Christ Jesus through all generations forever and ever! Amen.

Ephesians 3:14-21 NLT