Edie Melson - While My Soldier Serves: Prayers for Those with Loved Ones in the Military

Praise for While My Soldier Serves

While My Soldier Serves is a book for anyone with a family member serving in the military. Written by a mother who watched her son go off to war, the prayers in this book are not drawn from a denominations book of prayers but lifted from the pages of the heart. This book isnt readit is experienced.

Alton Gansky, novelist and author of 30 Events That Shaped the Church

As someone whose brother is in the military, Ive been waiting for a book like this. Edie offers heartfelt advice and insights to help you pray your loved ones back home.

Steven James, national best-selling author of Checkmate

While My Soldier Serves is an invaluable tool for those experiencing the distance and heartache of a loved one deployed. This book is a gem for those facing a situation that may leave them feeling powerless and afraid for what their loved one may be facing in the war theater. With these prayers, Melson not only holds the hands of military families, she kneels with them seeking guidance, wisdom, and counsel!

Ronie Kendig, best-selling, award-winning author of
the Quiet Professionals

No one knows what it means to pray for a loved one in the military like someone who has lived through it. While your loved one serves to protect Americas freedom, Edie Melson will guide you with prayer, offering comfort through Scripture and a reminder that God is as close to you as He is to your soldier.

Eva Marie Everson, best-selling author of Five Brides

The reality of death and destruction isnt mere concept to men and women in the military. Its a fact of life. For parents, spouses, family, and friends left behind, that reality can be paralyzing. As the mother of a former Marine, Edie Melson knows that feeling first-hand. In her newest book, While My Soldier Serves: Prayers for Those with Loved Ones in the Military, Edie shares real-life prayers, written from her heart, directed to the Creator and Protector of all.

Vonda Skelton, author of Seeing Through the Lies,
speaker, and wife of disabled veteran

Author Edie Melson lives her passion for supporting military families. While My Soldier Serves exemplifies her dedicationand her ability to use her personal experience to embrace others who are struggling with fear and anxiety and seeking to support loved ones who are in harms way. The book also provides powerful insight for those of us who do not have family in active service. Reading it brought me into the world of the prayerful parent, wife, sibling, or child and gave me the opportunity to reflect on the debt we owe those who serve our country both abroad and at home. While My Soldier Serves is an invitation to empathy and a glimpse into the power of faith.

Anne Kelly Tromsness, education director, The Warehouse Theatre
(South Carolinas only Blue Star Theatre)

In light of recent blockbuster movies that give us a look into the lives of military families and the dark hole they enter, Edie Melson addresses those needs in this book of prayers designed to strengthen those at home who hold the ropes for these brave soldiers. As one who has been there, she offers honesty, hope, and comfort as she nourishes you in Gods Word and carries you into His presence through the power of prayer.

Ginny Dent Brant, author of Finding True Freedom:
From the White House to the World

God hears our prayers, but His heart pours out to the prayers of a loving mother. Especially when her prayers are pleas for the safety of her child. Melson has put pen to her own heartfelt and sometimes desperate cries in prayer to the God of all creation. These prayers will warm your soul, offer you guidance as you pray, and focus your heart to the feet of Jesus. A touching book of sweet words over the men and women who defend our country.

Cindy Sproles, author of Mercys Rain and New Sheets

Drawing from her experience as a military mom, Edie Melson equips you to be your loved ones spiritual ground support. She pens the words that help you pray instead of worry. Within the pages of While My Soldier Serves you will find the words to help you turn anxiety into powerful intercession.

Beth K. Vogt, wife of a former Air Force officer who served for 24 years,
and author of Somebody Like You (selected by Publishers Weekly
as one of its Best Books of 2014)

About Christ, the Bible says there is no greater love than Christs willingness to lay down his life for his friends. Likewise, our brave men and women in the military are willing to show that Christ-like love on our behalf if it comes to that. The least we can do to repay that eternal debt is to lift them and their loved ones in prayer.

Steve Deace, nationally syndicated radio host

Edie brings the service of a warrior and the sacrifice of the military family home to readers. This book will open your eyes to what the great men and women go through who keep our nation free. This book is also a reminder that Jesus is our High General who has everything well under control, even during times of war.

Major Jeff Struecker, retired, Black Hawk Down veteran

While My Soldier Serves draws the reader into the courts of Gods presence with honesty and tenderness. All those who pray for the love and protection of a soldier or one serving actively in law enforcement will find the heartfelt supplications to God providing peace to the soul.

DiAnn Mills, award-winning author

Edie Melson has put her finger (and her heart) on something desperately needed, especially today. We live in a world that is in turmoil and war is all around us. We all know at least one person affected by war. While My Soldier Serves is an incredible book that will encourage, inspire, and comfort those who have a loved one serving in the military. It also will serve as a reminder for those who dont, that the greatest gift we can give right now may be the gift of prayer.

Jack Eason, executive director, Crossover Ministries International

This book is a must have for those who want to pray deeply and specifically for a deployed loved one. I wish I had this book when my husband was deployed. I look forward to recommending this book as a valuable resource to the military community.

Ginger Harrington, ministry leader for Planting Roots:
Strength to Thrive in Military Life

WHILE
MY SOLDIER
SERVES

Copyright 2015 by Edie Melson

Published by Worthy Inspired, an imprint of Worthy Publishing Group, a division of Worthy Media, Inc. 134 Franklin Road, Suite 200, Brentwood, Tennessee 37027.

WORTHY is a registered trademark of Worthy Media, Inc.

HELPING PEOPLE EXPERIENCE THE HEART OF GOD

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Melson, Edie.

While my soldier serves : prayers for those with loved ones in the military / Edie Melson.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-61795-589-1 (hardcover : alk. paper)

1. Armed Forces--Prayers and devotions. I. Title.

BV273.M45 2015

242'.88--dc23

2015008828

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