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In his inaugural speech, President Trump vowed ‘we will not forget our God’. On retaking the White House, Trump has already acted on his promise to stand for Christian values. Check out his day one reforms here and learn how you can pray for the incoming administration.

“Just a few months ago, in a beautiful Pennsylvania field, an assassin’s bullet ripped through my ear. But I felt then and believe even more so now that my life was saved for a reason. I was saved by God to make America great again.”

It was one of many moments during President Trump’s inaugural address that prompted a thunderous standing ovation.

Donald Trump is back — and the energy is electric.

On just his first day, the 47th US President undertook more than 200 executive actions, gave three historic speeches, and fielded 60 minutes of press questions even while signing piles of documents at the Resolute Desk.

But it was his inaugural address, delivered in the US Capitol Rotunda, where Trump really shone — and where America’s spiritual identity was reaffirmed by the nation’s Commander-in-Chief.

‘We Will Not Forget Our God’

Donald Trump is no saint. But whether in or out of office, he has consistently given glory to God, underscored the importance of faith, and pointed Americans back to their Christian heritage.

Trump has done this even as the Biden-Harris administration jailed pro-life activists, promoted castration for children, denigrated America’s Christian legacy, honoured far-left radicals, and mainstreamed Marxist sexual ideologies, even in the name of religion.

That godless agenda is finished, Trump declared on Monday night, during a half-hour address in which he wholly dismantled the disastrous record of his predecessors, who were forced to endure the spectacle from front row seats.

In words that reverberated globally and poignantly summed up his message, Trump resolved, “We will not forget our country, we will not forget our Constitution, and we will not forget our God.”

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Read the transcript of President Trump’s inaugural address here.

President Trump’s Day One Achievements

In the hours that followed, Trump wasted no time, holding a freewheeling press conference from the Oval Office while signing a raft of executive orders which:

• Made biblical and biological reality the official policy of the US federal government by declaring that there are only two genders, male and female
• Banned the cult of transgenderism in the military
• Ceased federal funding for sex changes and transgender therapies for prison inmates
• Eliminated all Marxist diversity, equity and inclusion programs, jobs and funding in the federal government
• Revoked the security clearances of the 51 former intelligence officials who interfered in the 2020 election by pretending that Hunter Biden’s laptop — which exposed the crimes of the Biden family crime syndicate — was Russian “disinformation”
• Withdrew the United States from the notoriously corrupt World Health Organisation (which is currently led by a revolutionary Marxist)
• Demanded the end of all censorship of protected speech by the federal government, including under the guise of fighting “misinformation”
• Pardoned American citizens who were being held as political prisoners of the Biden-Harris administration, including pro-life activists like Christian wife and mother Bevelyn Williams, and January 6 protesters, some of whom had been forced to make false confessions, others who were held without trial for over four years, and still others who were driven to suicide by their unjust treatment
• Declared a national emergency at the southern border, designated Mexican drug cartels as terrorist groups, and evoked birthright citizenship for illegal immigrants
• Triggered a review of all potential political weaponisation and misconduct within the Department of Justice and US intelligence agencies over the past four years

Watch Trump’s press conference and his signing of executive orders here:

The Trump-Jehu Connection

For good reason have many Christian commentators likened Donald Trump to the biblical figure Jehu, who was anointed by the prophet Elisha to become king of the northern kingdom of Israel, and whose story is told in 2 Kings 9–10.

During his long, dramatic and tumultuous reign, King Jehu enacted many successful reforms for the Kingdom of Israel. He was commended for his zeal in executing God’s judgment against a prior king, Ahab, who had been one of Israel’s most corrupt rulers.

King Jehu was a ruthless character, vengeful and uncouth. In order to secure the throne, he first had to overthrow a corrupt and entrenched royal family led by Queen Jezebel and King Joram, who belonged to the Ahab dynasty.

While King Jehu was not a particularly spiritual man himself, he saw it as his mission to root out idol worship and replace it with worship of the true God.

In perhaps the most dramatic episode of his reign, Jehu destroyed the temple of Baal in Samaria — an icon of Ahab’s dynasty — and turned it into a latrine.

Importantly, despite his many imperfections, King Jehu enjoyed the support of God’s prophet, Elisha. Jehu’s reign was a mixture of zealous reform and personal political ambition. His major shortcoming was that he did not abandon all idolatrous practices — a grave mistake that ultimately led to further idolatry and national decline.

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Pray for America and President Trump

President Trump’s ambitious national reforms were perhaps best captured in this segment of his inaugural address:

The United States will once again consider itself a growing nation — one that increases our wealth, expands our territory, builds our cities, raises our expectations, and carries our flag into new and beautiful horizons.

And we will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars.

Ambition is the lifeblood of a great nation, and, right now, our nation is more ambitious than any other. There’s no nation like our nation.

Americans are explorers, builders, innovators, entrepreneurs, and pioneers. The spirit of the frontier is written into our hearts. The call of the next great adventure resounds from within our souls.

Our American ancestors turned a small group of colonies on the edge of a vast continent into a mighty republic of the most extraordinary citizens on Earth. No one comes close.

Americans pushed thousands of miles through a rugged land of untamed wilderness. They crossed deserts, scaled mountains, braved untold dangers, won the Wild West, ended slavery, rescued millions from tyranny, lifted billions from poverty, harnessed electricity, split the atom, launched mankind into the heavens, and put the universe of human knowledge into the palm of the human hand. If we work together, there is nothing we cannot do and no dream we cannot achieve…

In America, the impossible is what we do best.

Please pray for America and for President Donald Trump as he seeks to revive the national spirit and restore Christian values to Washington D.C.

Politics is far from everything, but good political leadership can have a significant impact on the spiritual and religious outlook of a nation, and God can use leaders mightily to achieve His will on earth.

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