FIRST ON FOX: 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 additionally for Thanksgiving and your complete vacation season.
“We did have a really contentious election,” Jeffress instructed Fox Information Digital in an unique on-camera video. (See the video on the high 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 need to return collectively and get one thing constructive performed for the nation,” mentioned the religion chief who is thought nationwide.
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“And I sense a really upbeat spirit with President Trump,” mentioned Jeffress.
“I talked to him a number of days in the past, and he’s targeted, little question about it, on his agenda that he ran on.”
Pastor Robert Jeffress, at left, with President Donald Trump in the course of 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 Photographs)
And “he is extraordinarily upbeat and constructive about the way forward for the nation.”
Added Jeffress, “, I believe individuals who fearful or [even] heard that, if he is elected, he will create this dystopian theocracy that is going to oppress individuals — I do not assume any of that’s true.”
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“I’ve seen and I’ve recognized the president for 10 years,” he continued. “And I believe he is ready to transcend political variations and capable of work on what’s finest for America. So I hope all Individuals 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.”
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Added Jeffress, “So I believe that can proceed. I’ve recognized President Trump, as I mentioned, for 10 years, and we have been buddies. And we keep in frequent contact both by textual content or cellphone calls.
“And I sit up for that friendship persevering with for a few years,” he mentioned.
President-elect Trump arrives to talk throughout an election evening occasion on the Palm Seaside Conference Heart on Nov. 6, 2024 in West Palm Seaside, Florida. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Photographs)
This Thanksgiving, the pastor mentioned his message for all “would actually be God’s message from Scripture. It is present in I Thessalonians 5:18, by which Paul mentioned, ‘In every little 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 midst of the Civil Struggle when our nation was being torn aside.
“Lincoln mentioned, ‘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 Individuals have fun Thanksgiving this week, a famous pastor reminds individuals of the necessity to keep grateful for a myriad of blessings. (iStock)
The pastor famous that despite the fact that 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 question about that, he famous.
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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.”
And sure, whereas “there are hurricanes and floods, these are the exceptions more often than not,” he mentioned.
Individuals could be grateful, mentioned Jeffress, “that we had the chance to decide on our leaders.” (Ildar Abulkhanov)
“There are such a lot of issues we are able to be glad about. And I do know individuals typically say to me, ‘Pastor, I do not really feel grateful.’ Nicely, I’ve discovered that it is quite a bit simpler to ‘act your self’ into a sense than to ‘really feel your self’ into an motion.”
In spite of everything, he added, “there is a cause this vacation is known as Thanksgiving — and never Thanks-feeling.”
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He additionally mentioned, “God is in charge of every little thing that occurs, and we are able to belief in that. And I’d additionally simply remind Christians, particularly, that the Bible teaches that authorities’s accountability is to go away us alone as we observe our religion.”
“God is in charge of every little thing that occurs, and we are able to 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 means to vary the hearts of individuals. Solely the Gospel of Jesus Christ can try this. And that is one thing we’ve to observe.”
Jeffress is senior pastor of his 16,000-member church in Dallas and is a Fox Information contributor.
His each 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 world wide, together with Fox Nation.
He’s the creator of practically 30 books.
Sydney Borchers and Brooke Singman, each of Fox Information Digital, contributed reporting.
