National Day Of Prayer

Today is the 75th annual National Day of Prayer. It began in 1952 when Reverend Billy Graham stood on the steps of the United States Capitol and challenged Congress to pass legislation creating a national day of prayer in America. Congress did so just two months after Graham’s challenge. 

In 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed legislation designating the first Thursday of May as the National Day of Prayer. 

For more than a decade, Vonette Bright organized the annual observances. In 1991, she handed the leadership of the National Day of Prayer Task Force to my friend, Shirley Dobson. Jim and Shirley Dobson worked diligently for 25 years expanding National Day of Prayer events across the country. 

Today’s observance began this morning in Washington, D.C., with Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner leading a service in Statuary Hall inside the Capitol Building. 

Speaker Johnson said the Capitol Building is full of “reminders of the deep religious heritage of our country.” He noted that our national motto, In God We Trust, was engraved above the speaker’s chair in the House chamber “as a rebuke to the Soviets” and their godless philosophy of Marxist communism.

Pointing to the Declaration of Independence as proof of America’s religious heritage, Speaker Johnson said:

“We boldly proclaimed the self-evident truth that our rights do not come from government. They come from God Himself. That He is the one that has endowed us with our inalienable rights. That among those are the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Right there in the second paragraph in the nation’s birth certificate, it summarizes our national statement of faith.”

Secretary Turner, a former pastor and one of the most articulate Christians in the administration, spoke about the faith of the Founding Fathers and God’s blessing on America. Turner said:

“Look at how many storms God has led us through over the last two and a half centuries. A war of Independence. We won against all odds. A destructive civil war. The Great Depression. Two world wars. A decades-long Cold War against communism and more. We survived and thrived despite all these trials because of the grace of our sovereign God and the same sovereign God the Founding Fathers believed in. . . 

“The Founding Fathers could not have known everything the next two centuries would bring when they signed the Declaration that created our great nation. It would be hard for them to imagine that the newly born United States would one day become the most powerful country on earth. But they did know that they served a mighty God.” 

Tonight at 8:00 p.m. ET, Kathy Branzell, Will Graham, Os Guinness and others will lead the National Day of Prayer Broadcast. You can watch it here.

“Tell His Glory”

President Trump issued a statement recognizing the 75th National Day of Prayer. The president declared:

“This National Day of Prayer, we proudly recommit to our magnificent birthright of faith. I encourage all Americans to come together today in prayer, reflecting on the many blessings God has given our Nation and asking for His continued protection, with ceremonies, events, and programs in their houses of worship and places of work, schools, and homes. 

“Above all, we pledge that America will always, as it is written in Psalm 96, ‘Tell His glory among the nations’—and that we will never forget God’s role in creating, protecting, and sustaining the freest, strongest, most prosperous, and greatest country the world has ever known.”

The secular Left claims that today’s events are nothing more than Christian nationalists forcing our religion on the country. The Left ignores our history. Our best presidents regularly called for days of prayer. 

In 1789, George Washington called for a day of prayer and thanksgiving. As America was ripped apart during the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln called for a day of prayer in 1863 to “recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.”

Lincoln was particularly concerned that too many Americans had abandoned their faith. In the same call to prayer, Lincoln wrote:

“But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. 

“Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!”

Barack Obama forgot God whenever he quoted the second paragraph of our Declaration of Independence. (Joe Biden just forgot the whole thing.) Obama infamously blocked Franklin Graham from speaking at a National Day of Prayer event at the Pentagon. Graham spoke anyway on a sidewalk outside the Pentagon. 

Sadly, I believe many Christians still do not understand that there is an intentional effort to rip God out of America or to turn God into just another woke socialist. The Left will destroy the American Republic if it succeeds. 

At a prayer breakfast in 1984, Ronald Reagan warned, “If we ever forget that we’re one nation under God, we will be a nation gone under.”

Media Malfeasance 

Yesterday afternoon, FBI agents raided the office of Virginia Senate President Louise Lucas (D). Agents also raided her business—a marijuana dispensary located right across the street. 

Every media story referred to Lucas, who rammed the hyper-partisan 10 to 1 Democrat congressional map through the legislature, as “a leader of the effort to ensure fair elections.” It was all part of the Left’s narrative to portray Donald Trump as a dictator trying to destroy democracy. So, he sent his FBI “storm troopers” to raid this poor 80-year-old Black lady’s business. 

Here’s the truth: Lucas has been implicated in corruption for most of her political career. And the FBI investigation into her corrupt activities actually started under the Biden administration.

In related news, Democrats are growing increasingly nervous that Lucas’s super gerrymandered map may not survive legal scrutiny. 

It’s been ten days since the Virginia Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the legality of the referendum on the new map. The fact that the justices have not issued a decision yet and the fact that they upheld a lower court order blocking for now the certification of the vote suggests that the Democrats’ case is far from a slam dunk.

Raid Her Office, Too!

The FBI needs to pay a visit to the office of Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA). She felt secure enough to publicly tell everyone that she is working to break the U.S. blockade of Communist Cuba. She is actively undermining the foreign policy of the United States to the benefit of a designated state sponsor of terrorism.

We have gotten very lax when it comes to dealing with people engaged in open insurrection against the duly elected government of the United States.

The Great Replacement

The Left’s America Last mentality was obvious at the latest California gubernatorial debate. Every Democrat candidate promised to take the tax dollars of American citizens and use those dollars to subsidize the health care of illegal aliens.

During the debate, former Congresswoman Katie Porter made two stunning admissions in one statement. She actually said that California needed illegal aliens because they are “one of the only ways that our state has been growing in recent years.”

First, she’s admitting that Americans are fleeing California because years of Democrat control have ruined the state. 

Second, she’s confirming what her party insists is a “conspiracy theory”—that the Left is using mass migration to replace the current population of America.

Some people will say, “America isn’t an ethnic group. It’s an idea. And if immigrants are coming to support the idea of America, then there won’t be any difference in our country.” Except that’s not the reality staring us in the face. Just look at California.

The state that gave us Ronald Reagan is now overrun with Third World migrants, and it’s a total basket case. They’re rioting in the streets, waving the flags of foreign countries and mocking America. The conservative movement in California is on life support. 

There’s a huge difference between Ronald Reagan and Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris!

The American people aren’t stupid. They know what’s going on. The latest poll from the Associated Press finds that 61% of Americans are concerned that native-born citizens are “losing their economic, political and cultural influence in this country” because of mass immigration.

That’s not because 61% of Americans are “racists.” It’s because the country is being “fundamentally transformed” by a massive influx of people many of whom do not share the values of America.

Hamill Turns To The Dark Side

Barack Obama has been busy promoting his new presidential library. He enlisted Star Wars actor Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker) this week to produce a video for social media. 

Yesterday, Hamill posted a picture of President Trump dead, in his grave, with the caption “If only.” Does Barack Obama think that is acceptable?

Hamill and Obama should be ashamed of themselves! It hasn’t been two weeks since Cole Allen tried to assassinate President Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. 

The hate-filled Left doesn’t care. They will keep churning out this bile that invites violence as they blame Donald Trump for dividing the country.