Rededicate 250

 

Just a few of the many wise words spoken at the Rededicate 250 rally in Washington today:

 (from a Facebook post - author unknown)

1.Donald Trump

Donald Trump read from 2 Chronicles 7:

“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.”

 

2. Tulsi Gabbard

Tulsi Gabbard askedAmericans to humble themselves before God.

She reflected on how America’s founders “didn’t stride forward in pride” but instead “knelt” and “asked for God’s mercy” just weeks before declaring independence.

“They asked for his guidance because they knew that the cause before them was beyond their own strength," Gabbard said. “Now, today, exactly 250 years later, we gather here on the National Mall to do the same, to give thanks, to ask for forgiveness, and to humbly ask once more for God's mercy and guidance as we enter the next 250 years of this Republic."

Gabbard also said leaders too often see themselves as “the controllers.”

“We lose sight of the fact that we are tiny, and our time on this planet is extremely short, and yet we see ourselves as the controllers competing with each other over who is number one,” she said. “But the truth is, there's only one number one, and that's God.”

 

3. Vice President JD Vance

Vance said America has “always been” and remains a “nation of prayer”, pointing to George Washington’s 1789 Thanksgiving proclamation, and argued that faith has been part of America’s identity since before the nation’s founding.

“The duty Washington describes to honor, obey, and give thanks to our creator was woven into America's character long before the founding,” Vance said. “… We have always been and still are a nation of prayer. And thank God for that. In times of suffering and in times of triumph, millions of Americans continue to turn to prayer and their faith in God.”

Vance also quoted the late Charlie Kirk while arguing America’s moral foundation is rooted in religion.

“As my dear friend, the late, great Charlie Kirk put it, all law reflects a morality. Neither law nor morality appears in a vacuum, but ultimately come from religion."

The vice president also praised what he described as a growing return to faith among young Americans, saying many are seeking “meaning,” “direction” and “closeness with God. Prayer is not merely something we do in times of crisis."

 

4. War Secretary Pete Hegseth

Hegseth said George Washington and his troops faced cold and starvation while the future of American independence appeared grim when they took refuge at Valley Forge in the winter of 1777.

As men began to desert, Washington wrote to Congress asking for help, writing that the army may starve, dissolve or disperse, according to Hegseth. But Congress could offer little help at that time.

Even Washington’s pastor had lost faith, according to Hegseth, writing to the general that he should surrender and ask forgiveness from the British king.

“But George Washington did not lose faith,” Hegseth said. "We know the painting of him at Valley Forge. One hangs in my office. Kneeling in the deep snow, his hat and sword nearby, Washington bows his head amid all the bleak nights, the loss and despair, the lack of proper support, George Washington performed a profound act. He prayed.”

“Let us pray as he did. Let us pray without ceasing. Let us pray for our nation on bended knee. And let us ask our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, as Washington did on that momentous day.”

 

5. House Speaker Mike Johnson

“Heavenly Father, we thank you," Johnson said. "Thank you so much for this great day that you've given us here, and we remember that your mighty hand has been upon our nation since the very beginning."

Johnson reflected on the Revolutionary War and the founding of the U.S., noting that the Second Continental Congress held a day of “humiliation, fasting, and prayer” before the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

"Just weeks later, Lord, on July 4th, 1776, you gave 56 patriots the courage and the conviction to sign their names to the Declaration of Independence, forming 13 distinct and disparate colonies into a new nation which would become, by your mercy and grace, the freest, most successful, most benevolent nation in the history of the world.”

“Our founders acknowledged and boldly proclaimed the self-evident truth that every single person is created in your image, and that we are endowed by you, our creator, with our unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

 

6. Cissie Graham Lynch, granddaughter of Billy Graham

Lynch said Sunday that America “especially” needs God now, arguing America’s strength comes from faith and prayer with a foundation rooted in the belief “we need God.”

“For 250 years, this nation has returned again and again to the God who created this beautiful country that we get to call home. We do this not because we're perfect people. We're not. But woven into the fabric of America is a deep and persistent belief that we cannot persevere on our own — that we need God,” Lynch said.

Lynch argued America’s “true source of strength” is found “when we humble ourselves before God.”

 

7. Alveda King, niece of Martin Luther King

"This nation was founded on godly principles," King said. “We are one blood” and people of all races “can learn to live together as brothers and sisters.”

She also pushed back on the idea of a strict separation between church and state, saying “It's never a good idea to try to leave God out of anything.”

“It's time for us all to repent — to go to God and say we got it wrong, help us get it right”

 

8. Jonathan Roumie, actor playing Jesus in “The Chosen”

Roumie urged Americans to recommit to faith and the idea of being “one nation under God” and said prayer has been central to both his life and America’s identity.

“At the center of faith lies prayer,” Roumie said. “… Prayer is a kind of heavenly cargo shuttle, lifting our wants, our needs, and our gratitude toward heaven, open to anybody and everybody, willing to humble themselves at the feet of their creator, faithful and fallen alike."

Roumie said faith is essential to playing the role of Jesus “because if God hands you the assignment of portraying on a global stage his own son, the Savior of the world … and you do not have faith, Lord help you.”

“For 250 years we have endeavored to be one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. May we be that nation once more. May we rededicate ourselves to all that the Lord is calling us to these next 250 years. And may we, the citizens of the United States of America, never cease praying for our leaders, for each other, for our nation, and for the world.”

Shabbat 250 and America Re-dedication Day

 

 This is a wonderful article about Shabbat (Shabbat 250) linking this day with  this coming Sunday, May 17 - the day President Trump has designated as America Re-dedication Day and to Shavuot.  Wouldn't it be wonderful, Gail-Friends, if Yeshua our Messiah came during this week?  I'm ready -- and I hope you are, too.

Shabbat Shalom my friends.

 This is the link for the article - at First Fruits of Zion.  I highly recommend their site. 

Shabbat 250 and the Coming Messiah

And here is the link to information about the Rededicate 250 observance on Sunday, May 17.  The event in DC will be aired by Intercessors of America on YouTube:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPqlkz7Ys3Y

Something Big Is Happening

 

 This article is by Yehudah Glick - from Facebook

 

"Something very big is happening.

 

President Trump called on the Americans to dedicate a national Shabbat in honor of America’s 250th anniversary.

 

Charlie Kirk has written a book calling people back to the Sabbath — not as a cultural accessory, not as nostalgia, but as a response to the spiritual exhaustion of our time.

And I don’t think this is small.

I think this is one of the most important religious developments happening in the West right now.

Because Shabbat is not just a “Jewish day off.”

Shabbat begins at the very beginning of the Hebrew Bible.

Before Sinai.

Before the Exodus.

Before the Jewish people are even formed as a nation.

At the end of creation itself, the Torah tells us:

God created the heavens and the earth — and then He rested.

That means Shabbat is built into the architecture of the universe.

It is the weekly testimony that the world has a Creator.

That man is not God.

That productivity is not the purpose of life.

That technology must have limits.

That family is sacred.

That time can be holy.

That the universe is not an accident.

That history is moving somewhere.

For thousands of years, the Jewish people carried Shabbat through exile, persecution, wandering, and darkness.

Every Friday night, in every land, Jews lit candles and declared quietly — sometimes against the entire world — that Hashem is the Creator, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of Israel, Jerusalem, and Zion, the King of the universe.

And now something remarkable is happening.

The nations are beginning to hear the music of Shabbat.

Not perfectly.

Not fully.

Not always with the same language or the same obligations.

But they are hearing it.

They are beginning to understand that a world without Sabbath becomes a world without soul.

A world without Sabbath becomes a world of noise, screens, markets, anxiety, loneliness, and endless motion.

A world without Sabbath forgets its Creator.

And this is exactly what the prophet Isaiah saw.

Isaiah spoke of a future in which the “foreigners who join themselves to Hashem” would honor His covenant and keep Shabbat.

He saw a time when the House of God would be called:

“My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations.”

This is not the erasure of Israel’s unique covenant.

It is the opposite.

It is the light of Israel beginning to shine outward.

It is the nations recognizing that the God of Israel is not a tribal deity, not a private inheritance, not a symbol of the past — but the Creator of heaven and earth, the King of the universe.

That is why this moment matters.

When political leaders speak about Shabbat, when Christian voices call people back to Sabbath, when non-Jews begin to recognize the holiness of sacred time — I see more than a cultural trend.

I see an echo of redemption.

I see the world, tired and broken, slowly remembering the first truth:

“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”

And if the world can remember the Creator, perhaps it can also remember the purpose of creation.

Shabbat is not an escape from the world.

Shabbat is the world as it was meant to be.

Peace.

Faith.

Family.

Holiness.

Creation returning to its Source.

May this awakening grow.

May the nations come closer to Hashem.

May Israel embrace its calling with courage and love.

May Jerusalem and Zion become a light to all peoples.

And may the whole world come to know the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob — the Creator of the world, the God of Israel, the King of the universe.

This is huge.

And I believe we are only seeing the beginning."

 

And I pray it is so, Gail-Friends.  My prayer is for all in Israel, America, and the world to return to Adonai's Word, His Will, and His Ways - and to accept Yeshua as the Messiah and Savior.  

A Mothers Day Letter to America

 

I say "Amen" to this letter.   God bless all mothers.  And God bless General Flynn, a good American who's suffered so much for our country.

A Mother's Day Letter to America

By General Mike Flynn

There are some things a man does not write about until he is old enough to understand what he was given. I decided since it is Mother’s Day, I am setting the news cycle aside for a moment, because some truths are bigger than the daily fight.

I grew up as one of nine children in a small house in Middletown, Rhode Island. My father was a hard man with a soft heart, and he never asked the country for anything he had not first given it. My mother, Helen, held the center of our home together through every season of our lives. She raised nine of us, fed us, clothed us, prayed over us, taught us right from wrong, and somehow still found the energy to fight for her community. She ran for office at the local level at a time when most women her age were told to stay quiet, and she refused to. She taught us to kneel before God and to stand before no man. She taught us that we serve the country that gave us life. She taught us that strength is measured by what we carry, not by what we complain about.

When I look back at every hard day I have ever had, and there have been more than a few, I hear her voice before I hear my own. That is what a mother does. She becomes the first sound in your conscience and the last voice in your prayers.

The Founders understood something that this culture has allowed itself to mock. They understood that the Republic does not begin in the Capitol. It begins at the kitchen table. It begins with the mother who teaches her child to read the Bible before he learns to read a screen. It begins with the woman who tells her son that lying is beneath him and that running from his duty is worse than failing at it.

John Adams said the Constitution was made for a moral and religious people and would be wholly inadequate for any other. The men who built that moral and religious people were trained at home, by their mothers, long before they ever sat in a classroom or stood in a regiment.

We have spent generations laughing at that woman. 

Hollywood mocked her. The universities re-educated her daughters against her. The federal bureaucracy taxed her family until she had to leave the home she wanted to stay in. The technology companies took her children's attention and sold it to the highest bidder. Then the same culture that broke her down turned around and asked why our young people are anxious, fatherless, faithless, and unwilling to defend the country that raised them.

You cannot remove the mother from the Republic and expect the Republic to survive. It is that simple. It has always been that simple.

Fifth-generation warfare, the kind I have written about and warned about for years, is fought for the human mind. The terrain is the heart, the imagination, and the soul of a child. The first defender of that terrain is not a soldier. It is a mother. Every American mother who turns off the poison and reads to her child instead is defending the country. Every mother who walks her family into a church on Sunday is defending the country. Every mother who shows up at a school board meeting and refuses to sit down is defending the country. She is protecting the next generation of free citizens, and she is doing it with greater consequence than most of the officials elected to do the same job.

That is not sentimental language. It is an operational reality. The enemies of this country know it. They have studied it. They target the family because they understand that if the American family falls, the Nation falls behind it. Mothers are the front line. They have always been the front line.

I cannot write this without saying what needs to be said.

For ten years, my family carried a weight no family should ever have to carry. Ten years of investigation, of slander, of legal warfare waged by the most powerful institutions in this country against one American and the people who loved him. My wife, Lori, never broke. My sisters never broke. My daughters-in-law never broke. My mother, watching from heaven, never let me break either. If you have ever wondered what holds a man together when the full weight of a corrupt federal system is trying to crush him, I will tell you. It is not bravado. It is not press releases. It is a wife who looks you in the eye at the end of the worst day and tells you to keep going. It is the women in your life who refuse to let evil have the last word.

Everyone reading this knows a woman like that. Honor her today and every day after.

The Almighty did not make you for comfort. He made you for purpose. There is no purpose more sacred than the one He placed in your hands when He gave you a child.

Almighty God, on this Mother's Day, we thank You for the mothers of this Republic. Bless the mothers raising children in fatherless homes. Bless the mothers who buried a son or daughter in uniform. Bless the mothers who pray through the night for a child who has lost his way. Bless the mothers who walk into school board meetings shaking and walk out unbroken. Bless the mothers in heaven who still watch over us, including my own. Strengthen them, protect them, and use them, Lord, to raise up the next generation of patriots this Nation will need. In Your Holy Name we pray, Amen.

To every mother reading this, thank you. You are the reason this Republic still has a fighting chance.

Happy Mother's Day.

National Day of Prayer 2026

 

 Today, May 7 is the National Day of Prayer, which was declared in 1952.  Let us all praise and thank Almighty God for the blessing of being born and raised in this wonderful country.  The prayer event is being held in Washington D.C. and televised on Fox and other national outlets.  If you cannot see it live, you can see it later on YouTube.

My prayer today is for Americans to return to His Word, His Will, and His Ways. I am 75 years old and went to public schools during the 1950s and 1960s.    How blessed we were to have public schools that had the Ten Commandments on the walls of our classrooms.  How blessed we were to have Bible reading and prayer during our home room sessions.  How blessed we were to have teachers who were not afraid to speak of their faith during their teachings.  How blessed we were to live in an era that respected and honored and obeyed God's Word.

I pray that the future years will be a Golden Era of blessings.  He has blessed me and I pray He will bless us all with health, strength, vision, and purpose in our remaining years on this earth.

I pray and believe in the Name of Yeshua, the Messiah.  Amen

I recommend the International Intercessors of America website for many prayer resources you can use:

https://ifapray.org/blog/national-day-of-prayer-today