Trump’s National Day of Prayer against Coronavirus
By Julio Severo
On two March 13, 2020 tweets, President Donald Trump said,
“It is my great honor to declare Sunday, March 15th as a National Day of Prayer. We are a Country that, throughout our history, has looked to God for protection and strength in times like these. No matter where you may be, I encourage you to turn towards prayer in an act of faith. Together, we will easily PREVAIL!”
He also declared a national emergency because of Coronavius, or Covid19.
Prayer is always good.
I do not understand all the hype on Coronavirus, because there are bigger problems deserving more attention. But there are unanswered questions.
On a March 9, 2020 tweet, David Burke said,
“646,000 people die worldwide every year from the flu; 60,000 die in the U.S. alone, WITH vaccines. Yet barely a news headline. Reports indicate that that the #COVID19 virus has a less than 0.4% fatality rate. So why is the media hyping the #Coronavirus?”
And on a March 13, 2020 tweet, Bryan Fischer said,
“Obama’s first year, Swine flu: 60 million Americans infected in a 10-month period, 300,000 hospitalized, 18,000 deaths. Panic: zero. All depends on who the president is, eh?”
I have no understanding about what is happening and why, but I understand that God answers prayers from repentant hearts.
In the U.S. history, national prayer went hand in hand with fasting and repentance. Even George Washington, the first U.S. president, prayed on his knees and urged the early America to pray on her knees in fasting and repentance. I wonder how he would urge present America, soaked in the blood of the yearly butchery of almost 1 million unborn babies in abortion mills, to repent and pray.
Even though I think that it is positive for Trump to ask America to “look to God for protection and strength,” these should never be the first steps. If Washington’s America needed to repent before thinking in God’s protection and strength, what about the current America?
Besides, while Washington expelled homosexuality from his administration, Trump has embraced in his administration homosexuality and its adherents.
While Washington expelled homosexuals, Trump has promoted Richard Grenell and other homosexualists. And Grenell, with Trump’s blessings, is leading the Trump administration in the infamous effort to legalize homosexuality around the world — the same goal socialist President Barack Hussein Obama had.
How then does Trump’s America intend to “look to God for protection and strength” without repenting from abortion and homosexuality?
Trump has absolutely nothing to learn from me. But he has a lot to learn from George Washington and the Founding Fathers, who learned from the same Book I always learn from: The Bible.
By understanding America and her history, Trump would declare a National Day of Prayer, Fasting and Repentance for the Sins of Abortion, Sodomy, Unnecessary Wars. By no means this is a complete list, but a starting point.
May evangelical leaders in Trump’s inner circle lead him to such prayers.