National Day of Prayer

I cannot hide my disdain.

And what does the church look like in Tallarico's Texas? Well, you've got churches with trans bishops, you've got queer reverends, and these are the ones that get invited to do the National Day of Prayer and the prayer breakfast at the White House.

That last soundbite that we had for you? Oh, no, it's coming up.

Hold on one second.

As you're turning there, let me remind you of one final thing.

This coming Tuesday is National Day of Prayer.

There's all kinds of different things happening, even in the county of Bartow.

Bartow County, there's different things happening in different cities.

But the one for Cartersville is at the sort of the historic, what they call the Gold Dome Courthouse.

So the committee for the National Day of Prayer for Cartersville has asked me to do one of the prayers at that day of prayer.

So I would love for you to join us.

me at the Gold Dome Courthouse this coming Thursday.

He's been on here multiple times.

He was promoting the National Day of Prayer multiple times.

And he just really gave back so much to this community.

And it's such a huge loss.

Repentance, which leads to transformation.

2 Chronicles 7.14 is a verse that we quote a lot, especially during political times, or what is it, National Day of Prayer.

And I'm gonna read it, it says, If my people, who are what? Called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and I will forgive their sins and heal their land.

Okay? Now, we read that and we think Old Testament, which, yes, was written in Old Testament times, for sure.

Amen? It's condition.

That's where you start.

And then I go over to another verse that I shared this morning.

It was out of Joshua 24, 15, which everyone knows.

And I believe he wants to use the book, The Daniel Prayer, Daniel's example, to call people to serious prayer.

And at the time the book came out, it was one week before the book came out, I was named the chair for the National Day of Prayer.

And I held that position for one year because then they went to a president and changed their organization.

But But all of that, putting me at that level in the nation as head of the National Day of Prayer, calling people up and moved it into Statuary Hall in the nation's capital, and trying to tap into the network of people there are in this country that are praying, but trying to keep them focused in how we really pray.

It's not just words, but it's the Daniel prayer.

You know, it's a prayer of desperation and And God has taught me a lot about prayer, and I believe, and I'll just get on my little soapbox, but I believe we're living at the end of the age.

And so I believe he's all around the world.

I've been in Jerusalem, as you pointed out.

So that date's significant because it's the first Thursday in May of 2025.

And you all probably know that the first Thursday in May every year is the National Day of Prayer.

So the Religious Liberty Commission was announced on the National Day of Prayer in 2025.

What this EO did was create the commission that is an advisory committee focused on, quote, defending religious liberty for all Americans and, quote, celebrating America's peaceful religious pluralism.

Wow.

We are located in Northwest San Antonio at 7760 Prue Road.

And our website, here it is, three16.org. Now, tomorrow, you may ask, what are we doing tomorrow? Well, tomorrow, I have a special guest, Gene Leffler, who is the organizer for the National Day of Prayer right here in San Antonio.

He's going to be telling us about a very special event that's happening right here in San Antonio for everyone.

Every believer, we're going to pray in downtown San Antonio in the first Thursday of May.

It's when we added "In God We Trust" to some of our currency.

Uh, National Day of Prayer popped up, and so the National Prayer Breakfast.

All of this was 1950s Cold War stuff.

And at the time, Sam Rayburn, one of the folks who approved of this tiny little chapel being built, went on the record to warn against it ever being used in the media or to bring, like, public politics into what's supposed to just be a little quiet place for members of Congress to pray if they choose to.

I'm surprised you haven't done it yet.

So we went to Staff Day of Prayer where they make us go into the woods and

pray.

Did you have to...

I mean, I'm telling you, I was so fired up and so excited.

And I tell you, there were other opportunities from being elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention to being elected president of the National Day of Prayer to being elected president and CEO of the executive committee of the Southern Baptist Convention.

All of those things that God let me do, those were all sunrises in leadership.

And I wanna tell you, I loved them all.