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Still Issued: Prayer Proclamations
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| Wow. | |
| How many prayer proclamations has the current government issued, I wonder? | |
| Do you know? | |
| When you look right now, there are certain prayer proclamations that have to be issued by law. | |
| Every year, you're going to, by federal law, have a proclamation for the National Day of Prayer. | |
| Every year in September, you're going to have a proclamation by federal law for days of prayer and remembrance regarding 9-11. | |
| And those are things done by the president, correct? | |
| Done by the president and by states as well. | |
| Governors will issue times of prayer. | |
| But it's interesting that in this COVID thing, a number of the governors who are faith governors called for days of prayer to help see the COVID thing break. | |
| So we literally know that there have been literally tens of thousands of official calls to prayer by governors, by mayors, by presidents, by Congress. | |
| While there were 1,400 by 1815, there have been thousands since then. | |
| So many, and it still goes today. | |
| Well, and one of the reasons too that probably most people are not really aware of it is because the news doesn't talk about it. | |
| It's a day. | |
| And it used to be that if a president had a prayer proclamation, every newspaper printed the president's prayer proclamation in the newspaper so that every American citizen could see that proclamation and know how they should be praying based on what that proclamation was. | |
| And today, the news media doesn't report on this. | |
| And so even though there's still every year our National Day of Prayer, there's going to be a presidential prayer proclamation for the National Day of Prayer. | |
| The news media doesn't talk about it. | |
| They don't highlight it. | |
| So most Americans don't even know this happens, which also means that most Americans are not intentionally praying on that day for the things in that prayer proclamation. | |
| This is where it's very different from early American history because in early America, they would release a proclamation a month, maybe even two months in advance, so that everybody would have time to be aware of it. | |
| It would be printed in the paper so everybody knew, hey, guys, on this day, whatever it was, right? | |
| So maybe it's May 3rd, May 4th, whatever the day was, everybody knew on this day, we are calling on our entire state to go to God and pray and ask God for these specific things. | |
| The news media doesn't do that anymore. | |
| And so people really aren't aware that it still happens, but it does still happen today. | |
| And going to what Tim said, I was looking at some of the presidents recently, and George W. Bush had more than 40 prayer proclamations he issued nationally. | |
| Now, can you think back to how many of those you heard in the media? | |
| Not 40. | |
| Maybe four, maybe two, maybe none. | |
| And that goes to the fact that we still have people with a heart to seek God, but it's never told the people. | |