National Day Of Prayer

Today is the 74^th annual National Day of Prayer. Click here to watch the National Day of Prayer Broadcast tonight at 8:00 PM ET.

I just got back from the National Day of Prayer event at the White House. I’ve been to several of these events over the years, and this was one of the best.

I expected to remain in the audience as the event unfolded. I was surprised and honored when President Trump called me personally up to the stage to join him and others as he prepared to sign an executive order creating a new Religious Liberty Commission.

The Commission will develop policies and recommendations to defend religious liberty, with a particular focus on “parental rights in religious education, school choice, conscience protections, attacks on houses of worship, free speech for religious entities, and institutional autonomy.”

America has a deep religious heritage. There have been many calls to prayer in our history. The National Day of Prayer was first established by Congress in 1952. In 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed legislation designating the first Thursday of May as a day of national prayer.

At a prayer breakfast in 1984, Reagan famously warned, “If we ever forget that we’re one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.”

Reagan is right, and President Trump agrees! We won’t be a great nation unless we are Godly again.