'Jesus, Help Us' - Todd Beamer’s Last Prayer on Flight 93
On 9/11, Todd Beamer led the assault on Flight 93.
He reached an operator on the ground, Lisa Jefferson. Soft-spoken. Calm. He told her three men had taken the plane. He told her his name. He told her he was from New Jersey. He told her he had two boys, David and Andrew, and a wife expecting their third child.
He said, “Oh, Jesus, help us.”
Then he asked her to pray.
They recited the Lord’s Prayer together, start to finish.
"Our Father which art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever.
Amen."
When they finished he said, “Jesus, help me.”
He made her promise: if he did not make it, tell his wife and sons he loved them.
Jefferson later said she knew in that moment that he knew. There was not much left for him to do. So he prayed. Then he went out on faith.
He turned to the men with him.
“Are you ready? Okay. Let’s roll.”
They rose. The plane never reached Washington.
Jefferson kept her promise.
She called Lisa Beamer and told her everything her husband had asked her to say.
❌ Remember - Hollywood cut Jesus from the Flight 93 film. That was not an accident. It was the same war the left has waged for decades - erase God from the story, then wonder why a nation forgets who saved it.
That is a Christian at the end of the world: the prayer Jesus taught, the name of Jesus, love for his family, then the fight.
His widow, Lisa Beamer, in her 2002 book Let’s Roll!: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage, said....
What made Todd different from many other men who are merely religious was not the fact that he was willing to die for his faith; the terrorists did that.
No, Todd was willing to live for his faith. Todd built his life on a firm foundation so that when the storm came on September 11, he didn’t have to check the blueprints to see if everything he had built his life on was going to stand. He knew.
Never Forget.