President Donald Trump will participate in the upcoming America Reads the Bible event.
Trump will read 2 Chronicles 7:11–22 during theevent, which is commemorating the 250th anniversary of American independence.
The event features 475 American political, cultural, and religious leaders reading the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. It begins Sunday and ends Saturday.
“We needed somebody special to read Second Chronicles chapter seven,” Bunni Pounds, president of Christians Engaged, said, according toFox News.
“As my director and I were praying over different sections of scripture, it came to us that this is such a critical passage for the body of Christ,” she added.
Pounds said verse 14 is a core part of America’s generations of prayer life.
“It comes at a time where the Israelites were experiencing hardship and God spoke and said, ‘If my people that are called by my name would humble themselves and pray,’” Pounds said. “We’ve prayed this scripture for at least the last 50 years of American history on National Day of Prayer and other moments in this country.”
“And so we instantly said — who needs to read that? The President of the United States,” she said. “We set it aside for him and have been praying for that for the last year.”
Verse 14 reads, “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
Pounds said Trump’s participation sends a powerful message in 21st century America.
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