No matter what your background maybe or might have been I'm here for you. It doesn't matter to me what faith you belong to or even if you don't have a faith. I just want to be here for you in your time of need, crisis, disaster, trouble, pain, loss, feelings of worthlessness and unworthiness.
I spend most every day of my life fighting all the problems that most people cannot endure in the battlefield of their mind. Their past mistakes, their dreams, their fears, their faults and failures. But my job is to be an ear to here your pain, your side of the story and pray that the God who created us all as humans will speak to you and help you in your time of need. I'll pray for anyone who wants prayer no matter what it might be. I beleive one of the greatest powers that has been given to humans is prayer. Prayer moves all kinds of moutains in life. It can move the moutain before you. But maybe you have come to the place in life were you realize the moutain you are facing is to big for just you to move. Let me help by prayer and fasting and let's see if God will show you He is the real deal of LIFE. GOD IS LIFE ITSELF. Everywhere you see life, you really see a little measure of God. Now the wrongs that people do cannot always be understood, but they can be overcome with help from the Chaplain. Welcome aboard. Hope you stay around and get some benifits from visiting me and the links on this page.
Whether you are a veteran of a war or at war, War is a lifetime of hell! It is amazing how I drowned my experiences with work for almost 20 years before i snapped and went back to Vietnam. The world around my vehicle that day began to move in slow motion and i began to weep and could not hold it together. I managed to drive to a station and just sit there and shake and weep for hours dazed, bewildered, having no clue what was happening to me.
I had been in full time ministry for 20 years and was totally sold out and committed to my cause of helping people in life. here I sat needing help and did not know where to turn. I believe some people who will read this website can relate to that feeling of isolation. I had insulated my pain, rejected, abuse, and many other wounds you cannot see from the outside by spending all my time trying to patch everybody else up.
In Vietnam I was young, strong, proud and after a couple of weeks me and another marine were in a bunker beside a bridge we had to take shifts to protect from being blow up by the VC. the marine fired up a joint and then looked at me and said; "We think you are a nark and if you don't smoke this with me you are not going to come back the next time we go out on patrol. We patroled the blue line. A river were the NVA would cross over and penetrate into vietnam nam. I took a tok off the joint and 250 pound bomb blew the bridge up we were suppose to be guarding. I told him I was not going to smoke their dope while bombs and bullets were going off around me.
Then on patrol as we took a brake a sniper began to beam in on me and i could here the bullets bouncing off the rock on both sides of me. I had become the rocket launcher because the two marines before me had put their hand at the back of the 3.5 rocket launcher to open it and because we stayed in the water all the time, when they pulled the rocket open it went off and blew their hand and part of their arm off.
I was a grunt to start with and we patroled about 10 to 12 miles a day through the jungle. My secound job I became a a gunner for the machine gunner and carried all the ammo plus my rifle and my ammo. On Christmas day some VC shot at us and we opened fire and ended up killing him and his whole family by accident. he used his family to hide behind. I then became the law man and they took my rifle and gave me a 45. I'm very familiar with a 45 because it is one my choices as a handgun. But one day we did not go 10 or twelve miles but went 3 kilts and went into a village and as I found my spot to settled down and took off all the rockets and took my 45 to load a round in the chamber the barrel bussing flue off and the gun went off and put a hole through my left knee and hand.
I thought it was a simple accident until I realized what that marine said they would do to me if I did not smoke dope with them. I love the marines. My daughter is a marine. My son-law is a marine. But I had a choice to rat or keep my mouth shut and i chose to keep my my shut. A Lt. came aboard the navy hospital ship in Danang and asked me how it happen. I said it was an accident. It was not an accident. I've owned over a dozen 45's in my life and never has one of the fell apart when Ihave slide the pistol back to chamber a round.
In boot camp in Parris Island, SC. We went through 3 sets of drill instructors. The first set kicked a recruit and some colenel saw his bruises and we were all called into a room one by one and ask what did we see. Only 3 of us out of 74 men did not rat on those drill instructors. They were court martialed and the next set of drill instructors we got decided to pay us back for what we did to the first 3. Only qualifying day at the firing range only two people in the entire company qualified. me and one other marine. They told us to go down stairs and stay there until someone called us. they went in a turn the showers on hot and took that company fully dressed inside there and pt them until they strated fainting, throwing up and getting sick. Those drill instructors were also court-martialed and the 3rd set treated us fair and we finally finished boot camp. But I never ratted then in boot camp and I did not rat in vietnem either.
I've seen heads blown off and three marines playing pocker one day in a hooch a girl walked in with a bag and bom it killed them all. They think this 9/11 and Irag and other stuck is Terrorism. We were fighting it in Vietnam.
No-body has every welcomed me home. My own friends distance themselves from me. If it wasn't for God stepping into my life in 1975 and giving me a choice, Heaven or Hell. He made me choose right then and there to whether I would surrender my life to Jesus Christ or not. I was drinking a fifth of liqouir a day and sometimes a case of beer. My life was going no where. I gave my whole heart and life to Jesus Christ on a kitchen floor and I know the moment my heart was changed. Suddenly the fear that had gripped my heart all my life left and a peace i could understand, but actually feel flooded my heart.
So when you ask me for prayer it will be kept private, confidental, and the person praying for you hasn't even touched the surface of what he has been through in life. But I've been through a lot and since I'm still going shows me that greater is he that is in me than what i'm facing.
My biggest enemy is myself. Always has been. No father, no real mother, no real love. Abandoned from the womb, rejected by parenst, society, friends, in peace and war and yet I've been called and driven to be a chaplain and help those who are having to face the same life's issues. You don't have to face them alone. I'm real and I really care more about your well being than my own. I believe some-how thats whats kept me going all thses years. Even when I was totally broken down, collapsed, burned out and done wrong, God still brought me out and turned all those bad events into learning lessons to help others.
So if you need someone to talk to, or to pray for you I'm here. Love is a deed, not a thought, not even a feeling. I thank God for feelings, but Love unconditional is the God who lives in me for others.
Email me with your prayer requests or questions? at chaplainbutler@yahoo.com
Has anyone has ever told you that God loves you and that He has a wonderful plan for your life? Be honest! "If you were to die this very second, do you know for sure, beyond the shadow of a doubt that you would go to heaven?" Many good people think that by their good deeds they are ready to go to heaven, but if they do not confess that they know Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior and that they are born again I just go ahead and preach the good news of Jesus to them and try to get them to say the prayer of asking Jesus to save them. "One person said I cannot do that here, I've got to go to church to get saved."
No my friend you can get saved anywhere, any place, if you are ready to seek God with all your heart and surrender your will, your heart and life to him. Jesus died on the cross and shed His own precious blood for the forgiveness of all your sins. All you have to do is open your heart and give yourself to him. Jesus alone is the Savior of our souls. Jesus came to seek and save that which was lost.
"The Word of God declares that we are all born into this world lost and we all have sinned and come short of the Glory of God and that there is none of us righteous no not one." The gospel also says that the wages of sin is death, but THE GIFT OF GOD is eternal life through Jesus Christ. And whosoever shall call upon the name of Jesus Christ shall be saved."
We'll I'm a whosoever and so are you. Dear God please bless the person that is reading this right now in their body with healing and with a long and blessed life. Lord Jesus please do a quick work in their heart right now and show them that you love them and that you are real.
Now pray this prayer outloud right now and mean it with all your heart.
"Say, Dear Lord Jesus, come into my heart right now. forgive me of all my sins. Wash me and cleanse me. Set me free Lord Jesus. Jesus I thank you that you died for me on the cross. I beleive that you have risen from the dead and that you are coming back again for me also. Jesus fill me with the Holy Spirit. Give me a passion for the lost, a hunger for the things of God and a Holy boldness to tell others about you. "I confess that I'm saved, I'm born again, I'm forgiven and I'm on my way to heaven because I just asked you Lord Jesus to come into my heart."
Now were is Jesus? IN YOUR HEART!!! If you really mean't that prayer because Jesus did not come to destroy peoples lives but to save them. You have just asked Jesus to come into your heart and His Word says that he will in no wise cast you out. Now can you begin to say, "Thank you Jesus for coming into my heart and life."
"Now as a minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ I tell you that if you really mean't that prayer that all your sins are now forgiven. Always remember to run to God and not from God because he really does love you and has a wonderful plan for your life."
If you would like to know more please email me that you prayed and asked Jesus into your life and i will send you some free literature and a DVD that will help you start your new life. Receiving Jesus is a brand new start and i pray that Jesus by the Holy Spirit will seal this decision you have made right now and keep you in His love for ever."