Donald Trump inaugurated totally new multifaith National Day of Prayer, especially against coronavirus, with his charismatic adviser Paula White prophesying “you will recover all”
By Julio Severo
President Donald Trump inaugurated a totally
new multifaith National Day of Prayer, where Sikh, Muslim, Buddhist,
Zoroastrian, Hindu, Jain, Unitarian Universalist, Christian and Jewish leaders
made their prayers for those suffering from the coronavirus, the families who
had lost loved ones and the healthcare workers leading the battle against the
disease.
It is the first time in the U.S. history
that leaders from different religions hold together the National Day of Prayer,
departing from its evangelical origin and predominance.
“On this National Day of Prayer, America
is engaged in a fierce battle against a very terrible disease. Throughout
our history, in times of challenge, our people have always called upon the gift
of faith, the blessing of belief, the power of prayer, and the eternal glory of
God. I ask all Americans to join their voices and their hearts in spiritual
union as we ask our Lord in Heaven for strength and solace, for courage and
comfort, for hope and healing, for recovery and for renewal,” Trump said during
the ceremony on May 7, 2020 in the White House Rose Garden.
“We’re also profoundly grateful to be
joined by many faith leaders,” he added.
During the event, Trump allowed
evangelicals, Catholics, Hindus, Muslims and other religious leaders to lead
their prayers. Pujari Harish Brahmbhatt, invited by Trump, made a Vedic mantra
or prayer derived from the traditional Hindu mantra Yajurveda.
Trump also invited Jews and Catholics to
pray.
One of those offering prayers was the
charismatic televangelist Paula White, who is Trump’s adviser and serves as the
chair of his evangelical advisory board. She is hated by some because she is an
advocate of the Prosperity Gospel.
Trump said, “Pastor Paula White, please
come up. Thank you, Paula.”
White said:
What an honor to be here with you,
President and First Lady, Vice President, Second Lady. It’s a beautiful
day to lift up our Lord and Savior. He is a certain God in uncertain
times. And the Bible says, if two or three of us agree as touching
anything, it will be done.
Job 22, verse 28 says: If you decree a
thing and declare a thing, it will be established. So, God, we come in
agreement with your Word and with your Name — the name of Jesus.
Psalm 40, verse 17 says: You are my help
and my deliver. Do not delay, Oh God. I declare no more delays to
the deliverance of COVID-19. No more delays to healing and a
vaccination. No more delays to restoration of this great nation, the
United States of America.
For Psalm 71:2 says: In your
righteousness, deliver us and rescue us, incline your ear and save us.
Psalm 107 says: You deliver us out of the
stress and out of destruction.
Your Word will not return void, according
to Isaiah chapter 55, verse 11. So I declare your Word. I declare
divine intervention and supernatural turnaround. You will restore this
land.
According to Psalm 118:25: Save our
nation, oh Lord, and send prosperity now.
For Deuteronomy 28:8 says: Command your
blessing upon this land. You said in Deuteronomy 8:9 to bring us into
good land without any lack.
For your word declares in Psalm 33:2:
Blessed is the nation whose God is Lord.
So I declare you right now to be Lord over
this nation, over the United States of America, and we receive your blessing
over any plague, over any economic distress.
You will stay the hand of the enemy,
according to Second Samuel chapter 21, verse 16: When 70,000 men died by a
plague, David cried out as he covered himself in prayer. And the Lord
answered and said, “It is enough.”
Stay now thine hand. Lord, let that
be the cry today, and let that be your answer. Lord, enough coronavirus,
enough to death, enough to fear, enough to poverty. Stay thine your hand.
We pray over President Trump and First
Lady, Vice President and Second Lady, and this administration. I declare
Psalm 89, verse 21: Let your hand establish President Trump, and let your arm
strengthen him. I declare Psalm 98:1 that your right hand and your holy
arm will give Him victory. We declare victory in the name of Jesus.
Isaiah 58:11 says: Guide him
continually. And you said in Psalm 78:72 that you would guide him by the
skillfulness of your hand.
You declared in Psalm 43 that send out
your light and truth and let him lead his household, his administration, in the
name of Jesus.
Now, Lord, we pray for your mercies, for
they are new every single day. And every morning, your mercies are
new. Your steadfast love never ceases. I declare new mercies for
hospital workers, new mercies for doctors and nurses, moms and dads, pastors
and clergies, CEOs and employers, for the President and Vice President.
God, your love is steadfast and it endures
forever. So right now, wrap your arms of love around every person who is hurting,
every person who is confused, scared, tired, weary sick, lonely. Let them
know your love. Let them know that you will never leave them and you will
never forsake them.
And in conclusion, I declare Isaiah
chapter 43, verse 19: I ask the Lord to do a new thing in our nation by giving
waters in the wilderness and streams in the desert.
Malachi 4:2 says: Jesus, arise over the
nation with healing in your wings.
President, one last word: Like David, who
had had victory, after victory, after victory, after victory, would face his
biggest battle — it was called Ziklag. And they would take his wives and his
children, and the city would be burned down. And he cried and he wept,
and he began to pray out to God. And God gave him a word.
And through fasting and praying, I believe
this is the word for you and for this nation: The Lord spoke to him and
said: Pursue and go after them, and you shall, without fail, recover all.
Sir, the word of the Lord, I believe, for
this nation and for this administration is: You will recover all.
Trump thanked televangelist Paula White by
saying: “Well, thank you very much, Paula. Incredible, Paula. Thank you.”
It was not correct for Trump to turn the
National Day of Prayer, which was created by evangelicals and was a predominantly
evangelical event to call upon Jesus Christ, into a multifaith event with
non-Christian and anti-Christian religions, to call upon all kinds of gods and
demons. But White should not reject the invitation to pray for America and
Trump.
The National Day of Prayer, first marked
by Democrat President Harry Truman under the inspiration of evangelist Billy
Graham in 1952, has become a yearly White House tradition.
Because Trump opened the way, now the
National Day of Prayer will not be any more a predominantly evangelical event.
It will be a multifaith event. It will be an event to pray to many gods and
spirits.
This
is religious confusion. It is religious Babylon. In 1985 Rev. David Wilkerson said that
America is modern Babylon. It is very hard now to doubt it.
The difference between the old Babylon
and the modern Babylon is that in the old Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar, a pagan king,
used to gather together different pagan religions because he was not a
Christian. In the modern Babylon, why is Trump, who a Protestant president, beginning
to gather together pagan religions?
In my 2015 article “Conservative
Babylon in ‘Persecuted’: Hybrid Televangelist Framed by Pagan Neocon, and the
Free Speech or Patriotic or Equality ‘Gospel’ Replacing the Gospel of Jesus
Christ,” I warned about a conservative movie portraying a televangelist
with Catholic and evangelical characteristics:
“Persecuted” pleases Catholics and
evangelicals by creating a hybrid Catholic-evangelical conservative: a “Billy
Graham” with a rosary. Why not a hybrid Catholic-Orthodox-evangelical-Jewish
conservative? My worry is that this dangerous trend can lead to a future hybrid
Muslim-Christian-Hindu-Buddhist conservative, and all of us know how America is
prone to “diversity.”
The hybrid religious future of the
National Day of Prayer is here, with Trump’s approval. What kind of benefit and
answers prayers and mantras to several gods and spirits are going to bring to
the U.S. is something that remains to be seen.
Portuguese
version of this article: Donald Trump inaugurou Dia Nacional de Oração totalmente
novo, de várias religiões, especialmente contra o coronavírus, com sua conselheira
neopentecostal Paula White profetizando “você recuperará tudo”
Source: Last Days Watchman
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