REP. JOSH BRECHEEN: I was at National Prayer Service. What I witnessed was disturbing

On January 21st, 2025, President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance attended the Service of Prayer for the Nation astatine the National Cathedral.

As a believer, I attended the work for the intent of praying for our nation, President Trump, the president’s family, and the occurrence of his administration.

I purposely near the supplication work aboriginal aft realizing however the pulpit was being utilized for left-wing activism and not for existent worship unto God, to question His volition and wisdom. Mr. President, what accosted you astatine the supplication work was political–not biblical.

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When we tolerate lies, we are empowering a distortion of the truth. It is clip for each believer to instrumentality a stand, get successful the exit row, and locomotion retired of services wherever the afloat counsel of biblical information is being distorted.

Many cognize of the religion of our Founders and the biblical power connected our nation. Even arsenic precocious arsenic the 1950s, President Eisenhower and Congress declared "In God we Trust" our nation’s motto and added "one Nation nether God" to our Pledge of Allegiance. 

A antheral of faith, President Eisenhower’s bosom was acceptable connected this way from a young property erstwhile supplication saved him from decease aft his limb became infected and required amputation. The Lord answered these prayers, redeeming young Eisenhower’s leg, and thus, our aboriginal president was acceptable connected the trajectory of attending West Point and becoming the Supreme Allied Commander during World War II. This would person ne'er happened had President Eisenhower’s limb been amputated.

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In 1953, President Eisenhower, acknowledging helium wasn’t the archetypal to accidental it, said: "I sought for the greatness of the United States successful her commodious harbors, her ample rivers, her fertile fields, and boundless forests–and it was not there…I looked for it successful her antiauthoritarian Congress and her matchless Constitution–and it was not there. Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits occurrence with righteousness did I recognize the concealed of her genius and power. America is large due to the fact that America is good, and if America ever ceases to beryllium good, America volition cease to beryllium great!"

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Unfortunately, a time aft President Trump promised that his medication "will not hide our God," Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde distorted the information and utilized her presumption astatine the National Prayer Service to question governmental fame and selfish gain. By ignoring biblical teachings that God made humans distinctly antheral and pistillate (Genesis 1:27), that we indispensable spell to idiosyncratic successful backstage earlier accosting them successful nationalist (Matthew 18:15-17), and that we indispensable obey the instrumentality of the onshore (Romans 13:1-3), Budde ignored biblical truth.

In her sermon, Budde cited a Bible verse commonly utilized successful left-wing arguments, that "We are to beryllium merciful to the stranger." To recognize this verse, we indispensable recognize the connection stranger successful its afloat meaning, arsenic taken from the archetypal Hebrew language.

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This peculiar Hebrew connection is specifically utilized to picture a foreigner who afloat submits to the customs and civilization of their state of refuge. Illegal aliens are not submitting to the laws of the land–they’re defying them.

Rev. Mariann Budde leads the nationalist supplication work attended by President Donald Trump astatine the Washington National Cathedral, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, successful Washington.  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Ecclesiastes 8:11 warns america against ignoring laws being broken, saying, successful effect: When the instrumentality is not enforced, the people’s hearts are enticed to bash much evil. Let’s not hide the murders, rapes, and pack unit that the lawless confederate borderline has perpetuated. 

The near often ignores specified teachings, taking Scripture retired of context and utilizing half-truths to warrant their politics. Do not autumn into this trap! A half-truth is ever a afloat lie.

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The pulpit did not occurrence with righteousness during Budde’s sermon but alternatively promoted principles that inherently contradict biblical truth. 

If we are to instrumentality our state to 1 federation nether God, we indispensable talk the information successful love. Love without information is not existent love.