"PRESIDENT TRUMP'S NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER DECLARATION" - CBN News, 05-03-2018; http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/2018/may/president-trumps-national-day-of-prayer-declaration [AS I SEE IT: While today, May 3, is the official National Day of Prayer, is there any question that our nation needs our prayers EVERY DAY. The evidence that too many are living indpendent rather than dependent on God is so overwhelming as we look at the state of our nation on so many levels. It's way past time believers CALLED OUT to God for His forgiveness that we might again see Him BLESS AMERICA! "...if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land." - 2 Chron. 7:4 - Stan]
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 3, 2018
NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER, 2018
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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
On this National Day of Prayer, we join together to offer gratitude for our many blessings and to acknowledge our need for divine wisdom, guidance, and protection. Prayer, by which we affirm our dependence on God, has long been fundamental to our pursuit of freedom, peace, unity, and prosperity. Prayer sustains us and brings us comfort, hope, peace, and strength. Therefore, we must cherish our spiritual foundation and uphold our legacy of faith.
Prayer has been a source of guidance, strength, and wisdom since the founding of our Republic. When the Continental Congress gathered in Philadelphia to contemplate freedom from Great Britain, the delegates prayed daily for guidance. Their efforts produced the Declaration of Independence and its enumeration of the self-evident truths that we all cherish today. We believe that all men and women are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Prayer sustained us and gave us the strength to endure the sacrifices and suffering of the American Revolution and to temper the triumph of victory with humility and gratitude. Notably, as one of its first acts, our newly formed Congress appointed chaplains of the House of Representatives and Senate so that all proceedings would begin with prayer.
As a Nation, we have continued to seek God in prayer, including in times of conflict and darkness. At the height of World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt called for prayer "for the vision to see our way clearly to see the way that leads to a better life for ourselves and for all our fellow men and to the achievement of His will to peace on earth." Decades later, following one of the darkest days in our Nation's history, President George W. Bush offered this prayer for our heartbroken country, mourning the precious souls who perished in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001: "We ask Almighty God to watch over our Nation, and grant us patience and resolve in all that is to come. We pray that He will comfort and console those who now walk in sorrow. We thank Him for each life we now must mourn, and the promise of a life to come."
America has known peace, prosperity, war, and depression and prayer has sustained us through it all. May our Nation and our people never forget the love, grace, and goodness of our Maker, and may our praise and gratitude never cease. On this National Day of Prayer, let us come together, all according to their faiths, to thank God for His many blessings and ask for His continued guidance and strength.
In 1988, the Congress, by Public Law 100-307, as amended, called on the President to issue each year a proclamation designating the first Thursday in May as a National Day of Prayer, "on which the people of the United States may turn to God in prayer and meditation at churches, in groups, and as individuals."
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim May 3 as a National Day of Prayer. I encourage all Americans to observe this day, reflecting on the blessings our Nation has received and the importance of prayer, with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities in their houses of worship, communities, and places of work, schools, and homes.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this third day of May, in the year of our Lord two thousand eighteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-second.
[italics emphasis mine]
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"The Difference a Year Makes: Johnnie Moore on Freedom of Religion in the Age of Trump" - Steve Warren, 05-02-2018; http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/2018/may/the-difference-a-year-makes-johnnie-moore-on-freedom-of-religion-in-the-age-of-trump
"Moore explained that President Bush observed the day with ceremonies in the east wing of the White House. President Obama issued proclamations. He didn't do formal events. He celebrated the day privately. But President Trump has decided to honor the day differently.
'For the second year in a row, President Trump has had a ceremony actually in the Rose Garden, which is just steps outside the Oval Office,' Moore noted. 'The only other president to do this was Ronald Reagan, one time in 1982. The whole ceremony was only eight minutes long and it was a meaningful thing. But it was just in and out. As it was last year, I think this year we are going to take our time praying for the country.'
'Just one year has passed since President Donald Trump signed his religious freedom executive order, but Moore says it's made all the difference in the world.' 'I think the principle thing is...the purpose of that executive order which I think has been effectively done, was to order the various departments of the government to assess where their policies were causing a problem for religious freedom across the board,' Moore said. 'We were really facing an existential moment as it relates to religious freedom. Practically speaking in various parts of the government. It has affected funding decisions. It's affected a number of court cases. There has been a lot of these material steps.'
'Moore says one of his critiques of the both the Bush and Obama administrations is that when religious liberty intersected with difficult cultural questions the administrations were too willing to forsake religious liberty rather than to sit down and talk about it.' ' "We just can't get rid of the first clause of the first sentence of the First Amendment. This has to exist," Moore explained. "No one would question religious liberty by this administration."
Office of the Press Secretary
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 3, 2018
NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER, 2018
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
On this National Day of Prayer, we join together to offer gratitude for our many blessings and to acknowledge our need for divine wisdom, guidance, and protection. Prayer, by which we affirm our dependence on God, has long been fundamental to our pursuit of freedom, peace, unity, and prosperity. Prayer sustains us and brings us comfort, hope, peace, and strength. Therefore, we must cherish our spiritual foundation and uphold our legacy of faith.
Prayer has been a source of guidance, strength, and wisdom since the founding of our Republic. When the Continental Congress gathered in Philadelphia to contemplate freedom from Great Britain, the delegates prayed daily for guidance. Their efforts produced the Declaration of Independence and its enumeration of the self-evident truths that we all cherish today. We believe that all men and women are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Prayer sustained us and gave us the strength to endure the sacrifices and suffering of the American Revolution and to temper the triumph of victory with humility and gratitude. Notably, as one of its first acts, our newly formed Congress appointed chaplains of the House of Representatives and Senate so that all proceedings would begin with prayer.
As a Nation, we have continued to seek God in prayer, including in times of conflict and darkness. At the height of World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt called for prayer "for the vision to see our way clearly to see the way that leads to a better life for ourselves and for all our fellow men and to the achievement of His will to peace on earth." Decades later, following one of the darkest days in our Nation's history, President George W. Bush offered this prayer for our heartbroken country, mourning the precious souls who perished in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001: "We ask Almighty God to watch over our Nation, and grant us patience and resolve in all that is to come. We pray that He will comfort and console those who now walk in sorrow. We thank Him for each life we now must mourn, and the promise of a life to come."
America has known peace, prosperity, war, and depression and prayer has sustained us through it all. May our Nation and our people never forget the love, grace, and goodness of our Maker, and may our praise and gratitude never cease. On this National Day of Prayer, let us come together, all according to their faiths, to thank God for His many blessings and ask for His continued guidance and strength.
In 1988, the Congress, by Public Law 100-307, as amended, called on the President to issue each year a proclamation designating the first Thursday in May as a National Day of Prayer, "on which the people of the United States may turn to God in prayer and meditation at churches, in groups, and as individuals."
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim May 3 as a National Day of Prayer. I encourage all Americans to observe this day, reflecting on the blessings our Nation has received and the importance of prayer, with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities in their houses of worship, communities, and places of work, schools, and homes.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this third day of May, in the year of our Lord two thousand eighteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-second.
DONALD J. TRUMP
[italics emphasis mine]
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"The Difference a Year Makes: Johnnie Moore on Freedom of Religion in the Age of Trump" - Steve Warren, 05-02-2018; http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/2018/may/the-difference-a-year-makes-johnnie-moore-on-freedom-of-religion-in-the-age-of-trump
"Moore explained that President Bush observed the day with ceremonies in the east wing of the White House. President Obama issued proclamations. He didn't do formal events. He celebrated the day privately. But President Trump has decided to honor the day differently.
'For the second year in a row, President Trump has had a ceremony actually in the Rose Garden, which is just steps outside the Oval Office,' Moore noted. 'The only other president to do this was Ronald Reagan, one time in 1982. The whole ceremony was only eight minutes long and it was a meaningful thing. But it was just in and out. As it was last year, I think this year we are going to take our time praying for the country.'
'Just one year has passed since President Donald Trump signed his religious freedom executive order, but Moore says it's made all the difference in the world.' 'I think the principle thing is...the purpose of that executive order which I think has been effectively done, was to order the various departments of the government to assess where their policies were causing a problem for religious freedom across the board,' Moore said. 'We were really facing an existential moment as it relates to religious freedom. Practically speaking in various parts of the government. It has affected funding decisions. It's affected a number of court cases. There has been a lot of these material steps.'
'Moore says one of his critiques of the both the Bush and Obama administrations is that when religious liberty intersected with difficult cultural questions the administrations were too willing to forsake religious liberty rather than to sit down and talk about it.' ' "We just can't get rid of the first clause of the first sentence of the First Amendment. This has to exist," Moore explained. "No one would question religious liberty by this administration."
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