This morning I watched the National Prayer Breakfast where President Donald Trump spoke. It was unique in light of his acquittal 24 hours before on impeachment charges. Today’s speech was one of the most encouraging speeches I have heard since Buzz Aldrin read the Bible on the Moon. Here is why.
The National Prayer Breakfast (NPB) was established during the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower who started attending a small prayer group at the Capitol because he was lonely in the White House. That resulted in the NPB. It should remind us to pray for our President and leaders who do have a lonely jobs in many ways. 1 Timothy 2 clearly exhorts us to pray in this way. Two years ago I was humbled to be asked to open the House of Representatives in prayer at our State Capitol in Olympia. It was a blessing to see the representatives stand with hats off for my prayer. It was clear they genuinely did want pray. They do need it.
I am reminded that our country had a significant Christian beginning in spite of what some say. Hear proof of this in Dr. Al Mohler’s interview with author Mark David Hall about his new book entitled Did America Have A Christian Founding? You will be encouraged.
Trump’s 28 minute speech was full of bold statements of change we have not heard from a president for awhile. The primary ones were his statements on God being the author of life and that babies in the womb are made in God’s image. He also spoke of his attempts to turn back the tide on the abortion issue which is indeed a watershed issue in America today.
Recently I mentioned that the number of babies murdered in the womb yearly in the U.S. would be equivalent to about 1,243 Boeing 747 Jumbo Jets crashing every year with no survivors. Each carries about 500 people. The recent crash of the smaller Ukrainian Air flight in Iran with 176 killed or the 9 who died in Kobe Bryant’s helicopter crash in California all cause us to cringe. But we should consider the greater loss through abortions.
My brother, a senior pilot at 85, recently sent me a picture similar to this one of grounded 737 MAX planes on the runway in Moses Lake awaiting repairs and approval to fly safe. Imagine over 1,200 of them going down. That is a year of abortion in the U.S.
Imagine over 600,000+ babies murdered yearly in the U.S.. God has been gracious in withholding judgement on us in this matter. It has been said that if God does not bring judgement for this in America then He will have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 18-19; Matthew 10:15). Pray for our leaders who are working to turn back the tide of abortion. They are making progress but it is not an easy job.
Note what 1 Timothy 2:1-6 says. “First of all, then, I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men, for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity. This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony given at the proper time.”
Pastor Mark