Lift Up America With Prayer

Tomorrow, May 2, 2024, will be the 73^rd annual National Day of Prayer when Americans are encouraged to gather in towns, cities, and state capitals to specifically pray for the seven centers of influence in the nation which include government, military, media, business, education, church, and family.

This year’s theme, “Lift up the Word, Light up the World,” is based on 2 Samuel 22:29-31 which says, “For you are my lamp, O Lord, and my God lightens my darkness. For by You I can run against a troop, and by my God I can leap over a wall. This God – His way is perfect; the Word of the Lord proves true; He is a shield for all those who take refuge in Him.”

The National Day of Prayer is an annual observance created in 1952 by a joint resolution of the United States Congress, and signed into law by President Harry S. Truman, that requires presidents to declare an annual National Day of Prayer. It states, “Whereas the Congress, by a joint resolution approved on April 17, 1952, has provided that the President ‘shall set aside and proclaim a suitable day each year, other than a Sunday, as a National Day of Prayer, on which the people of the United States may turn to God in prayer and meditation’; and whereas I deem it fitting that this Day of Prayer coincide with the anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, which published to the world this Nation’s ‘firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence.’”

Support Canada Free Press