As President-elect Donald Trump assembles his new Cupboard, Pastor Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, has a message not simply of hope and therapeutic because the nation strikes ahead after the presidential election but in addition for Thanksgiving and all the vacation season.
“We did have a really contentious election,” Jeffress informed Fox Information Digital in an unique on-camera video. (See the video on the prime of this text.)
“We have had many contentious elections all through historical past. However I believe now that the election is over, now that President Trump has been re-elected, I actually sense on each side of the aisle there is a want to come back collectively and get one thing constructive performed for the nation,” stated the religion chief who is understood nationwide.Â
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“And I sense a really upbeat spirit with President Trump,” stated Jeffress.Â
“I talked to him a couple of days in the past, and he’s centered, little doubt about it, on his agenda that he ran on.”
Pastor Robert Jeffress, at left, with President Donald Trump through the first Trump administration. Stated Jeffress of Trump this week, “He is extraordinarily upbeat about the way forward for the nation.” (Olivier Douliery/Bloomberg through Getty Photos)
And “he is extraordinarily upbeat and constructive about the way forward for the nation.”Â
Added Jeffress, “You understand, I believe individuals who frightened or [even] heard that, if he is elected, he will create this dystopian theocracy that is going to oppress folks — I do not assume any of that’s true.”
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“I’ve seen and I’ve identified the president for 10 years,” he continued. “And I believe he is ready to transcend political variations and in a position to work on what’s finest for America. So I hope all People will pray for him and provides him an opportunity to do what he promised to do.”
“That is the important thing to having that coronary heart of gratitude — discovering the great issues to focus on.”
Will Jeffress advise Trump in any formal approach on religion or prayer issues as the brand new administration prepares to take workplace?
The pastor responded, “Again in 2016, when President Trump ran for the primary time, his marketing campaign created a non secular advisers committee. As soon as he received that 2016 election, that ended and it morphed right into a extra casual group of people that talked with the president when he requested that.”Â
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Added Jeffress, “So I believe that can proceed. I’ve identified President Trump, as I stated, for 10 years, and we have been associates. And we keep in frequent contact both by textual content or telephone calls.Â
“And I look ahead to that friendship persevering with for a few years,” he stated.
President-elect Trump arrives to talk throughout an election night time occasion on the Palm Seaside Conference Heart on Nov. 6, 2024 in West Palm Seaside, Florida. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Photos)
This Thanksgiving, the pastor stated his message for all “would actually be God’s message from Scripture. It is present in I Thessalonians 5:18, through which Paul stated, ‘In every thing we must always give thanks.’”
Jeffress went on, “Most individuals do not know that the primary proclamation for Thanksgiving was issued by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, proper in the course of the Civil Struggle when our nation was being torn aside.Â
“Lincoln stated, ‘There are some issues we must always be pleased about.’ And I believe that is the important thing to having that coronary heart of gratitude — discovering the great issues to focus on.”
As tens of millions of People have fun Thanksgiving this week, a famous pastor reminds folks of the necessity to keep grateful for a myriad of blessings. (iStock)
The pastor famous that though the nation has gone by a tense and divisive election season, “we needs to be grateful that we had the chance to decide on our leaders.”
Sure, “there are financial hardships that many households are dealing with” — little doubt about that, he famous.Â
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“However the truth is the typical household of 4 making $50,000 a yr is wealthier than 89% of the remainder of the world.”Â
And sure, whereas “there are hurricanes and floods, these are the exceptions more often than not,” he stated.
People might be grateful, stated Jeffress, “that we had the chance to decide on our leaders.” (Ildar Abulkhanov)
“There are such a lot of issues we will be glad about. And I do know folks generally say to me, ‘Pastor, I do not really feel grateful.’ Properly, I’ve discovered that it is so much simpler to ‘act your self’ into a sense than to ‘really feel your self’ into an motion.”Â
In spite of everything, he added, “there is a purpose this vacation known as Thanksgiving — and never Thanks-feeling.”
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He additionally stated, “God is answerable for every thing that occurs, and we will belief in that. And I might additionally simply remind Christians, particularly, that the Bible teaches that authorities’s duty is to depart us alone as we apply our religion.”
“God is answerable for every thing that occurs, and we will belief in that.”
He added, “We’re by no means going to result in non secular change by authorities. It is not authorities’s job or skill to vary the hearts of individuals. Solely the Gospel of Jesus Christ can try this. And that is one thing we’ve to apply.”
Jeffress is senior pastor of his 16,000-member church in Dallas and is a Fox Information contributor.Â
His every day radio program, “Pathway to Victory,” is heard on greater than 1,400 stations nationwide.
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His weekly tv program is seen in 195 nations all over the world, together with Fox Nation.Â
He’s the writer of almost 30 books.Â
Sydney Borchers and Brooke Singman, each of Fox Information Digital, contributed reporting.Â
