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Show 8 TimEs February 10, 2011 HILLTOP TIMES BATTLE the back of that humvee, God started to remind me of a few things that I'd known all along but it just never really sank in like it did at that moment," he said. "You see, he started to remind me that my life is in his hands. There's nothing that I can do to protect it, there's nothing that I can do to lose it. All that I need to do is to simply trust in the sovereign God with my future. "Then he started to remind me that my eternity — whatever happens to me after life on this Earth is over with — that was secured once and for all 2,000 years ago when my Savior paid the price for my sins. This changed how I fought for the rest of the night. "From that moment forward, I had a perfect peace about what was going to happen ..." Struecker said calmly. "That gave me the courage to go back out to the city streets — not once but twice — and ultimately to stay out there until 9:30 in the morning the next day in humvees From page 6 down over the city. They were to load the humvee back up and head back into the battle to rescue any survivors they could find. As Struecker prepared the humvee for its return to battle, he faced what he called "hands down, the most terrifying moments of my life." "Every fiber of my being was saying, 'No, don't do this. This is crazy, it's a suicide mission!" he said as he recalled those moments alone at the back of the humvee. Still, he could not abandon his brothers and knew full well that, as an Army Ranger, he would never leave a fallen comrade behind. "So I did at that point what any Christian, what any man or woman of faith, would do: I started to pray," Struecker said. "God I'm in big trouble and I need your help.' "As I was standing at that were shot up and riddled with bullet holes until we could round everybody up and bring them back to the base." Struecker described how the day after really changed his point of view. As friends and fellow soldiers walked up to him and asked questions about his faith and what had happened, he began to realize that God had a different plan for him than kicking in doors as an Army Ranger. "Most of them were saying, 'Jeff, there was something different about you last night. I could hear it on the radio, I could see it in your eyes. You have something that I don't have," Struecker said as he described the reactions of his friends. For the next 24 hours, he had a line of Soldiers, Airmen, SEALs and others lined up at his door, waiting to hear his answers to their questions about Christianity, faith and how prayer can lead you through even the toughest of times. 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