Trump urges Americans to 'focus on prayer, grow in personal relationship with God' in Easter message
It is great that our President and Vice President are remembering Holy Week and openly taking about our faith and hope in trying times like this. It was heartwarming to see him talk about faith and belief and using faith based charities to help dealing with the pandemic. I’m also glad that Fox News is going all in in covering Holy Week celebrations all weekend. These are the times that try our souls and it’s comforting to know we have hope and know the source of it. Thank you President Trump for all that you are doing to combat the pandemic and now focus on restarting the economy. Thanks for recognizing the role of faith and belief and the works based on them in getting us through this to better times.
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Ahead of the coronavirus task force briefing Friday, President Trump gave an Easter message, urging Americans to “focus on prayer, reflection, and growing in our personal relationship with God” during “this sacred time” as most churches hold services online, and asked Virginia pastor Bishop E.W. Jackson to pray.
“On this Good Friday, Christians from all around the world remember the suffering and death upon the cross of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ,” Trump said at the briefing at the White House. “At Easter Sunday, we will celebrate His glorious resurrection.”
Trump said as people won’t be able to “gather together with one another as we normally would on Easter,” they can “use this sacred time to focus on prayer, reflection, and growing in our personal relationship with God. So important.”
He continued, “I ask all Americans to pray that God will heal our nation; to bring comfort to those who are grieving; to give strength to the doctors, nurses, and healthcare workers; to restore health to the sick; and to renew the hope in every person who is suffering. Our nation will come through like never before.”
Trump assured that the U.S. death toll from the new coronavirus pandemic will be “substantially less” than the last week’s projection of 100,000.
As of early Saturday, there were more than 1.7 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 around the world with 103,257 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University . In the United States, the case count was 501,615 with 18,777 deaths.
The president acknowledged that “many families” have prayed “for me and for my family.” He said, “your prayers are felt, and I am forever grateful.”
Trump thanked “our great Vice President (Mike Pence) and his wonderful wife, who we all know very well, Karen, for the incredible job they do and for their service not only to the country but for their service to God.”
Trump quoted Prophet Isaiah, “Darkness covers the Earth…but the Lord rises upon you, and His glory appears over you…For the Lord will be your everlasting light.”
As America “battles the invisible enemy,” he continued, “we reaffirm that Americans believe in the power of prayer. We give thanks for the majesty of creation and for the gift of eternal life. And we place our trust in the hands of Almighty God.”
Also on Friday, a pro-Israel organization in the U.S., Christians United for Israel, thanked Trump for his leadership.
“We are grateful to President @realDonaldTrump for his leadership during this crisis and join him in rejoicing during this Easter weekend and praying for our country and leaders as well as doctors, nurses, first responses, and the many people affected by this virus,” the group wrote on Instagram . “We are believing God for healing and restoration for our country.”
In his prayer that followed Trump’s Easter message at the White House, Bishop Jackson, senior pastor of Fall Church in Chesapeake, Virginia, thanked the President for including the churches in the relief efforts. “Many churches would’ve had to close down … had it not been for your insightful leadership,” he said.
“Lord, let the death angel pass over. Let there be a mitigation of this plague, this disease. Let medical science come forth,” Jackson continued. “Lord, let us come out with a thriving economy. That silver and gold spoken of in that passage, let it be our portion.”
He also prayed that “the spirit of division” in the nation will be broken. “Lord, let e pluribus unum be a reality in us. Let there be a uniting of America. Heal the divide between race, class, and gender.”
At the White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing , Trump said he plans to attend the online Easter Sunday service hosted by pastor Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Dallas, Texas.
“We have Easter Sunday, and I’m going to be watching pastor Robert Jeffress, who’s been a great guy," Trump said. "And I’m going to be watching on a laptop. Now a laptop is not the same as being in his church or being in another church. It’s not."
Jeffress is also a member of Trump's Evangelical Advisory Board.
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“On this Good Friday, Christians from all around the world remember the suffering and death upon the cross of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ,” Trump said at the briefing at the White House. “At Easter Sunday, we will celebrate His glorious resurrection.”
Trump said as people won’t be able to “gather together with one another as we normally would on Easter,” they can “use this sacred time to focus on prayer, reflection, and growing in our personal relationship with God. So important.”
He continued, “I ask all Americans to pray that God will heal our nation; to bring comfort to those who are grieving; to give strength to the doctors, nurses, and healthcare workers; to restore health to the sick; and to renew the hope in every person who is suffering. Our nation will come through like never before.”.....The president acknowledged that “many families” have prayed “for me and for my family.” He said, “your prayers are felt, and I am forever grateful.”
Trump thanked “our great Vice President (Mike Pence) and his wonderful wife, who we all know very well, Karen, for the incredible job they do and for their service not only to the country but for their service to God.”
Trump quoted Prophet Isaiah, “Darkness covers the Earth…but the Lord rises upon you, and His glory appears over you…For the Lord will be your everlasting light.”
As America “battles the invisible enemy,” he continued, “we reaffirm that Americans believe in the power of prayer. We give thanks for the majesty of creation and for the gift of eternal life. And we place our trust in the hands of Almighty God.”
Pandering to the base, the man has not one religious bone is his body.
It seems the whole experience of running for and being President has changed him as a person as it has many of of those before him. The vast majority of Americans celebrate either Passover or Easter so it’s not about the base at all.
Horseshit
No, when people are dying and his crows about his ratings show what hs truly is and has been an immoral day trader who cares only for himself. At Easter and Passover he is the antithesis of a good Christian.
mass graves in new york city
Bull fucking shit, the man is just pandering
Fucking seriously? Okay, Jesus just told me that he wants you to wire me all your savings, and investment account information. I have been changed as a person and now have a personal relationship with god, and that is totally what he said. He promised you will go to heaven if you do this.
I stand by what I said. He is doing a great job leading our country through this and knows where to get the wisdom and strength from to guide our country through this crisis.
That is clearly not true. Trump has clearly been affected by all the religious leaders and pastors he has been dealing with since he bagan his run for President to the present moment. The things he has done to promote religious liberty and freedom in the country is proof that he has made changes in his life.
Maybe DeBlasio should not have told his citizens to go out, enjoy the city and ride the mass transit platforms, on March 3rd. Maybe if he had not done that, we would not be seeing pictures like this.
But....Orange man bad...
It has been quite an experience, hasn't it. Jesus would say "Forgive them for they know not what they do."
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I'm sorry, I can't. The haters must be punished, but for now let us celebrate this special day at home and remember how it was.
That's possible, but politicians say things they don't really mean to pander to their base every day. If he's saying a nice thing, I'm not going to spend the day worrying about whether or not he "really means it." Just enjoy the nice message.
I can appreciate the sentiment but also acknowledge that he doesn't mean it and is an asshole.
Watching Trump lecture on how to be religious is as funny as watching him blowhard about everything else he is clueless about, which is almost everything. Scamming and conning and lying, he knows though.
His message is a very good one for the country. How many Presidents did not do an Easter proclamation during their Presidency? Passover/Easter combined with this pandemic and getting our economy restarted should be a time for national unity and for all but the most TDS afflicted it is.
How many Presidents did so little for so many to suffer in a Pandemic. NONE
You first. I doubt you can prove tRump as a true Christian.
Obviously we can no longer have a discussion because you are not armed.
I proved Christ died on the cross for our sins. You evidently do not agree.
you first
Except he doesn't even buy his own message. Maybe I was wrong though, perhaps he is a true Christian because he is all about the "good for thee but not for me" concept.
That is not what Christianity is about at all. It does seem that Trump has converted and is growing in his new found faith.
He is NOT converted, he is a lying sack of shit
Ohhhh shit son, you done did it now. Tell me what Christianity is all about, and before you do you need to tell the moderators that you are okay with how viciously I am going to rip you apart.
Mods, if he responds then that is confirmation that he accepts my terms and I should not be banned for my responses.
Judge not lest ye be judged. It’s not our place to decide who God will save or who has repented.
Crooked donnie does not have ONE religious bone in his body
He makes me, a atheist pray that he gets elected for 4 more years so I can keep laughing at the TDS sufferer's. There daily sniveling is the high light of my day.
So you approve of releasing everyone in prison?
The United States is fighting an invisible enemy known as the coronavirus. President Trump and all of America are coming together to prevail. And together we will.
We know the costs in this fight are profound and growing by the day. More than 18,000 Americans have passed in this fight so far, businesses of all sizes are shut down, and unemployment is rising.
In these trying times, America is fortunate to have a president who cherishes the Constitution and its rights enshrined.
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When asked whether states should put in a stay-at-home order, Trump answered, “we have a thing called the Constitution, which I cherish.” The president went on to explain that he would defer to states as they follow the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines while crafting a state-specific response.
This was an important moment for America.
By cherishing the Constitution, Trump and America are signaling to the world that we are best positioned to defeat this virus and to preserve prosperity, liberty, and the opportunity that first made America great.
Our Constitution was designed to protect inalienable rights like life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Such inalienable rights protect faith, freedom and our republic across America.
If our leaders don’t cherish these rights and, by extension, our Constitution, then we would weaken our all-of-America response to defeat this virus. That won’t happen thanks to Trump as he champions freedom, faith, and prosperity at this moment.
Rather than more dependency on government or globalism, exercising our rights is helping beat this virus. Here’s how.
Faith
Faith is essential in America. The power of prayer is seen across all of America in this crisis, as our heroes fight this invisible enemy. In fact, our heroes continue to pray for our nation, as nurses and doctors stand on hospital rooftops to pray over patients and families.
Our founders understood that free exercise of religion is an important element of society because through our faith, we meet moments of crisis with courage and reliance on God. American presidents have always turned our nation back to God in all manner of challenges we have faced and other wars we have endured.
Freedom
In America, freedom to innovate provides the catalyst for us to solve the hardest of problems. Freedom enables our markets to find creative ways to problem-solve and cure. Trump is calling on this freedom to defeat this virus.
The private sector of America’s brilliant enterprise has answered the call to fight in this war. The president has been consistently fighting to bring back manufacturing and jobs to our shores, and through this crisis, America is realizing the wisdom of that policy. We have amazing enterprise and a free market system that encourages innovation.
Democracy
We can keep America great by preserving essential elements of democracy, no matter the moment we face. Trump and his administration are doing just that.
“Democracy is the answer in times of crisis,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said at a press conference. We can’t take the bait of those who claim that less liberty is a better recipe for combatting pandemics. America and our democratic allies are better positioned to defeat this invisible enemy than China, Cuba or Iran. And we are ever stronger in this fight with a president who always puts America first.
In this trying time, Trump is right to cherish our Constitution. Countless examples of Americans exercising their constitutionally protected rights prove that America is better for it. And so too is the world. This is why the American experiment was truly unique and why America has endured and become the beacon of light and liberty to the world.
There is a light at the end of the tunnel — the light of liberty that has shined brightly in many dark moments — and we are grateful that our Constitution remains with the president on this voyage.
God bless America and all of our heroes in this fight.
... by end running them on a consistent basis.
remember that next time you click on the publish box
That’s what Obama did. Trump upholds the constitution
do you have the mistaken idea that care one bit about what you think about something I’m about seed here?
Crooked donnie wipes his ass with the constitution
I watched some of Pope Francis Good Friday mass from St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. It is a huge church and there were about 20 or 30 people there, nuns and clerics, all keeping social distance.
Sad times.
It’s going to be like that here all weekend with tv and internet church or parking lot drive in church. It is sad.
tRump informed us to enjoy Good Friday. The Matthew 23 tRump does not understand that the passion of my Lord Jesus Christ was about suffering to forgive our sins. In a nutshell, Christ died on the cross for our sins to be forgiven. tRump is causing Americans to suffer and many die for his sins.
Did the Westboro Baptists tell you that?
That is just so off base.
Lol oh god, I love religion. There is no other concept in human history where people can be so full of shit and pretend they aren't, and other people will buy into it without question. It actually is amazing to watch.
I am positive that if I said right now that I found Jesus and he is speaking to me personally, there is 1 religious person on this site that would ignore literally my entire history when it comes to religion, and believe me. Fucking amazing.
The power of God to forgive and to change lives as people grow in their relationship with Him is a mighty one.
It is mighty, soooooo fucking mighty. So mighty that Jesus had a beer with me personally and told me that if you give me all your banking and investments info, you have a golden ticket to heaven. Damn that revelation was sooooooooo fucking mighty!
Lol oh godless, I love anti religion. There is no other concept in human history where people can be so full of bleep
and pretend they aren't, and other people will buy into it without question. It actually is amazing to watch.
I am positive that if I said right now that I found Jesus was still in the tomb and he is not risen, there is 1 secular person on this site that would ignore literally my entire history when it comes to religion, and believe me. bleeping amazing.
This is what our President had in mind with his message. A message of inspiration and hope using separation. Simply beautiful.
Wow! That was amazing.
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I’m glad that you liked it.I thought so too and posted as well to Johns inspirational songs seed.