Trump's inauguration preacher Pastor Lorenzo Sewell goes viral for larger-than-life prayer

A preacher who helped present the benediction astatine President Trump's inauguration has gone viral aft giving an explosive performance. 

Lorenzo Sewell, elder pastor of the 180 religion successful Detroit, Michigan, made remarks during the ceremonial connected Monday morning. 

In his three-minute prayer, Sewell was incredibly patriotic and pro-Trump, arsenic helium thanked God for redeeming the 78-year-old from an assassination effort past year. 

He besides appeared to marque aggregate references to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's celebrated 'I person a dream' speech, who's nationalist vacation coincided with the inauguration. 

Sewell started: 'Heavenly begetter we are truthful grateful that you gave our 45th and present our 47th president a millimeter miracle.

'We are grateful that you are the 1 that person called him for specified a clip arsenic this. That America would statesman to imagination again.'

Sewell prayed that America continues to beryllium a nation 'where we volition not beryllium judged by the colour of our tegument but by the contented of our character'.

He spoke loudly passim his supplication and lifted his hands to the entity arsenic helium called for 'freedom to ringing 'throughout America successful a nonstop transcript from Dr. Luther King Jr. 

Sewell said: 'My country, 'tis of thee, saccharine onshore of liberty, of thee I sing; Land wherever my fathers died. Land of the pilgrims' pride. 

'From each mountainside, fto state ring.' And due to the fact that America is called to beryllium a large nation, we judge that you volition marque this travel true. 

'From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, fto state ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, fto state ring. From the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania, fto state ring. 

'From the snowcap Rockies of Colorado, fto state ring. From the curvaceous hilltops of California, but God, we're asking you not lone that; fto state ringing from Stone Mountain, Georgia. Let state ringing from Lookout Mountain, Tennessee. 

'Let state ringing from each elevation and each molehill successful Mississippi, from each state, each city, each colony and each hamlet. 

'And erstwhile we fto state ring, we volition beryllium capable to velocity up that time wherever each of your children, Black men and achromatic men, Protestant and Catholic, Jew and gentile volition beryllium capable to sing successful the meaning of that aged Negro spiritual, 'Free astatine last, escaped astatine last. 

'Thank you God almighty, we are escaped astatine last.' If you judge with the Spirit of the Lord, determination is liberty. Come on, enactment your hands unneurotic and springiness your large God large glory.'

On societal media, Sewell has rapidly gone viral for his animated supplication with users praising him. 

One idiosyncratic posted: 'President Trump invited Pastor Lorenzo Sewell from Detroit to commune astatine the Inauguration, and helium did NOT disappoint. God is backmost successful America.'

Another said: 'This Pastor made my time I’m not of this spiritual denomination Who cares It was a circuit de unit On a Sunday Inauguration Day MLK Remembrance Day.'

Someone other added: 'Great to spot religion being represented astatine the Inauguration Trump bringing backmost accepted values to the White House is simply a enactment of caller aerial America is reclaiming its spiritual roots, acknowledgment to leaders similar Trump and Pastor Sewell.'

One different commented: 'He was great!! A young pastor similar that tin person a almighty impact.'

Sewell archetypal met Trump successful June erstwhile the pastor hosted him astatine his religion amid a run stop. 

According to MLive, earlier turning to God, helium had worked arsenic a cause trader earlier a calling to instrumentality up being a pastor successful 1999. 

He told the outlet that helium is simply a lifelong Republican and had supported Trump successful 2016 and 2020.