April 21, 2026
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This Week America Reads the Bible
We are living in a very important season regarding America’s turnaround. The changes we have requested of the Lord for decades are occurring. From revival breaking out on our campuses, to prayer and worship in the White House, from a call for the reading of the Scriptures over our nation, to the Rededication of America as one nation under God, significant events are taking place. It is critical that the church supports and partners with these changes.
“America Reads the Bible”
An endeavor to exalt God’s Word over our nation began last Saturday. The reading actually began on Sunday.
The organizers state:
“Just as Ezra read the Word aloud to the people of Israel (Nehemiah 8:1–3), awakening revival and repentance, inspiring them to rebuild the temple, and working with Nehemiah to mobilize the people to rebuild Jerusalem’s walls, America Reads the Bible is a sacred opportunity to call our nation back to its spiritual foundations. Through a public, continuous reading of the entire Bible in our nation’s capital by our national leaders from all spheres of influence, we believe God can spark revival in individual hearts and inspire Americans to carry the Word forward in their lives and communities into the next 250 years of our national story...
“In honor of the 250th birthday of the United States, America Reads the Bible serves as a spiritual celebration of our nation’s founding ideals and a call to rediscover the truth that still anchors us today.”(1)
500 leaders from across America will read a passage of Scripture. On
Tuesday evening, President Trump will participate and read from 2 Chronicles 7.
You can find out how you can see and agree with this amazing reading through the Bible online by going to AmericaReadstheBible.com. Pureflix is carrying these seven days of reading, and you can watch for free. More about how to do this is on the AmericaReadstheBible.com website.
National Day of Rededication
Four months prior to the signing of the Declaration of Independence, on March 16, 1776, the Second Continental Congress issued a resolution designating Friday, May 17, 1776, as a Day of Humiliation, Fasting, and Prayer to seek divine favor for the colonies. The text advises colonists to confess sins, repent, and ask God to bless the American cause, preserve the colonies, and restore peace.
Without realizing they were doing so, President Trump and his team chose the exact same date - May 17 - for this year’s “National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise, and Thanksgiving,” rededicating America as one nation under God. What an incredible confirmation of God’s providential hand leading our President and his team to conduct this gathering. I believe it is an announcement from the Lord that our many prayers, solemn assemblies, and days of fasting over the past 40 years are coming to fruition.
This all-day gathering on the Washington Mall will highlight the country’s 250 years of providential history, emphasizing the role of faith in America’s founding and history, and rededicate the nation as “One Nation Under God.” It will absolutely be a once-in-a-lifetime event. I wouldn’t miss it for anything.
Here is a portion of the 1776 resolution:
“In times of impending calamity and distress; when the liberties of America are imminently endangered by the secret machinations and open assaults of an insidious and vindictive administration, it becomes the indispensable duty of these hitherto free and happy colonies, with true penitence of heart, and the most reverent devotion, publicly to acknowledge the over ruling providence of God; to confess and deplore our offences against him; and to supplicate his interposition for averting the threatened danger, and prospering our strenuous efforts in the cause of freedom, virtue, and posterity…
“Desirous, at the same time, to have people of all ranks and degrees duly impressed with a solemn sense of God’s superintending providence, and of their duty, devoutly to rely, in all their lawful enterprises, on his aid and direction, Do earnestly recommend, that Friday, the Seventeenth day of May next, be observed by the said colonies as a day of humiliation, fasting, and prayer; that we may, with united hearts, confess and bewail our manifold sins and transgressions, and, by a sincere repentance and amendment of life, appease his righteous displeasure, and, through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ, obtain his pardon and forgiveness; humbly imploring his assistance to frustrate the cruel purposes of our unnatural enemies; and by inclining their hearts to justice and benevolence, prevent the further effusion of kindred blood.”(2)
The Lord heard their prayer and gave them freedom from Britain. This May 17, we will rededicate our nation to Him, and He will hear again, granting grace and mercy.
Pray with me:
For our prayer today, we will read passages from 1 Kings 8 describing Solomon’s dedication of the Temple.
“Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven. He said, “O Lord, the God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven above or on earth beneath, keeping covenant and showing lovingkindness to Your servants who walk before You with all their heart,
“‘Yet have regard to the prayer of Your servant and to his supplication, O Lord my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which Your servant prays before You today; that Your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, toward the place of which You have said, “My name shall be there,” to listen to the prayer which Your servant shall pray toward this place. Listen to the supplication of Your servant and of Your people Israel, when they pray toward this place; hear in heaven Your dwelling place; hear and forgive.
“‘If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight or mildew, locust or grasshopper, if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is, whatever prayer or supplication is made by any man or by all Your people Israel, each knowing the affliction of his own heart, and spreading his hands toward this house; then hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive and act and render to each according to all his ways, whose heart You know, for You alone know the hearts of all the sons of men, that they may fear You all the days that they live in the land which You have given to our fathers.’
“When Solomon had finished praying this entire prayer and supplication to the Lord, he arose from before the altar of the Lord, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread toward heaven. And he stood and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying:
‘“Blessed be the Lord, who has given rest to His people Israel, according to all that He promised; not one word has failed of all His good promise, which He promised through Moses His servant. May the Lord our God be with us, as He was with our fathers; may He not leave us or forsake us, that He may incline our hearts to Himself, to walk in all His ways and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His ordinances, which He commanded our fathers. And may these words of mine, with which I have made supplication before the Lord, be near to the Lord our God day and night, that He may maintain the cause of His servant and the cause of His people Israel, as each day requires, so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the Lord is God; there is no one else. Let your heart therefore be wholly devoted to the Lord our God, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments, as at this day.’
“Now the king and all Israel with him offered sacrifice before the Lord. Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to the Lord, 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the sons of Israel dedicated the house of the Lord.” (1 Kings 8:22-23, 28-30, 37-40, 54-63)
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