Posted on 10/13/2017 10:32:05 AM PDT by ForYourChildren
In May, Robert Jeffress, a Southern Baptist preacher from Texas perhaps best known for attacking Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith, stood among a host of Christian ministers in the White House Blue Room and addressed President Trump.
“Mr. President, we’re going to be your most loyal friends,” Jeffress said then.
That prediction was accurate. At some of Trump’s lowest moments over the past few months, conservative religious leaders have materialized at the White House to literally lay hands on him in prayer.
The photos of these moments have a powerful resonance for many American Christians who are steeped in a fundamentalist form of the faith that is individualistic, populist and places a high value on outward forms of religiosity. Their faith practice is characterized by a fascination with emotional experience and with big, dramatic gestures and story lines. The extraordinary is often valued over the ordinary, novelty over tradition, speaking in tongues over creeds, prophecy over liturgy.
And Trump has been eager to harness that emotional energy on his own behalf, especially at low points in his presidency.
When the damaging news broke in July that Donald Trump Jr. had met during the campaign with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer and had been eager to receive information about Hillary Clinton from the Russian government, a group of evangelicals prayed over Trump that very evening in the Oval Office.
“Such an honor to pray within the Oval Office for @POTUS & @VP,” tweeted Johnnie Moore, a former aide to Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr.
" Such an honor to pray within the Oval Office for @POTUS & @VP . pic.twitter.com/JrDOSJyFeN "
— Johnnie Moore ن (@JohnnieM) July 12, 2017
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Yahoo! has a Senior Political Correspondent? Who knew?
God hears all sincere prayers. This resonates with this non-evangelical too. God Bless America. Let us bring her back to glory under the God of Nature and Nature’s God.
Condemn Secularism, Marxism, Leftism and Atheism and all those religions which would destroy our Constitution.
This utter slanderous piece posing as legitimate news managed to take true Christian love and fellowship and drag it through their ugly interpretation.
Truly so called journalists today are Trump derangement haters!
Thankfully President Trump does have good, righteous men nurturing and praying over him.
Aaannnnd.....
Judge Roy Moore will be heading to the Senate.
Love it, drammatic change from the obumbler years.
When I look at that first picture, I think of my family and friends that are prayerful. I’m just some small speck of nothing compared to God, but I ask him routinely to bless our POTUS and his team. Glad to see those I’m praying for are asking the same.
prayer helps one marshal one’s forces, focus one’s efforts to get the job done, get through a stormy time. this allows God to act through us-
The author fails to control their own passive aggressiveness.
It is good that Trump seeks guidence from God.
They can’t stand it.
I’m not evangelical, but I am profoundly grateful that our President is praying with pastors and that they have committed to supporting his faith.
There is DIVINE POWER in the the laying of hands in prayer and operating in the gifts of the HOLY SPIRIT. BELIEVERS have within us the Resurrection Power of JESUS CHRIST, Who gives the VICTORY!
HEBREWS 6:1-3
So let us stop going over the basic teachings about Christ again and again. Let us go on instead and become mature in our understanding. Surely we don’t need to start again with the fundamental importance of repenting from evil deeds and placing our faith in God. You don’t need further instruction about baptisms, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. And so, God willing, we will move forward to further understanding.
I pray for President Trump, his family, and those who serve this nation and its citizens with integrity several times a week.
The photos of these moments have a powerful resonance for many American Christians who are steeped in a fundamentalist form of the faith that is individualistic, populist and places a high value on outward forms of religiosity. Their faith practice is characterized by a fascination with emotional experience and with big, dramatic gestures and story lines. The extraordinary is often valued over the ordinary, novelty over tradition, speaking in tongues over creeds, prophecy over liturgy.The arrogance and ignorance of some people is simply astounding.
This is the MANTRA that is being taught to students in public schools and universities throughout the nation. BRAINWASHING.
Praise God! Never hurts to ask for help in HIGH PLACES.
“The arrogance and ignorance of some people is simply astounding.”
yes, it is.
And they are demeaning the 63M deplorable, bitter clingers that voted for POTUS DJT!
May The Lord guide and protect him and all his patriotic efforts for good and for the Republic’s honorable interests.
There was a newspaper article published after the Civil War about George Washington's vision.
The link below is the best I could find.
There are/will be three great trials for the United States:
1. The American Revolutional War
2. The American Civil War
3. And the third will be the greatest peril for the United States
The best link I could find:
George Washington's vision at Valley Forge
NOTE: Basically a woman first appears to Washington. She disappears and then an angel appears.
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In the vision, the angel writes out the word UNION for the 2nd trial, and writes: Remember ye are brethren
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