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 entire 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 either side of the aisle there is a need to come back collectively and get one thing constructive achieved for the nation,” mentioned the religion chief who is understood nationwide.
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“And I sense a really upbeat spirit with President Trump,” mentioned Jeffress.
“I talked to him just a few days in the past, and he’s targeted, little doubt about it, on his agenda that he ran on.”
Pastor Robert Jeffress, at left, with President Donald Trump throughout 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 Pictures)
And “he is extraordinarily upbeat and constructive about the way forward for the nation.”
Added Jeffress, “, I believe individuals who anxious or [even] heard that, if he is elected, he will create this dystopian theocracy that is going to oppress folks — I do not suppose 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 nice 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 religious 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 associates. And we keep in frequent contact both via 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 Pictures)
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 should 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 course of the Civil Conflict when our nation was being torn aside.
“Lincoln mentioned, ‘There are some issues we should always be pleased about.’ And I believe that is the important thing to having that coronary heart of gratitude — discovering the nice issues to focus on.”
As thousands and thousands of Individuals have a good time Thanksgiving this week, a famous pastor reminds folks of the necessity to keep grateful for a myriad of blessings. (iStock)
The pastor famous that regardless that the nation has gone via a tense and divisive election season, “we must be grateful that we had the chance to decide on our leaders.”
Sure, “there are financial hardships that many households are going through” — little doubt 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 might be grateful, mentioned Jeffress, “that we had the chance to decide on our leaders.” (Ildar Abulkhanov)
“There are such a lot of issues we will be glad about. And I do know folks typically say to me, ‘Pastor, I do not really feel grateful.’ Properly, I’ve discovered that it is loads 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 purpose this vacation known as Thanksgiving — and never Thanks-feeling.”
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He additionally mentioned, “God is answerable for every little thing that occurs, and we will belief in that. And I might additionally simply remind Christians, particularly, that the Bible teaches that authorities’s duty is to go away us alone as we observe our religion.”
“God is answerable for every little thing that occurs, and we will belief in that.”
He added, “We’re by no means going to result in religious change via authorities. It isn’t 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 got to observe.”
Jeffress is senior pastor of his 16,000-member church in Dallas and is a Fox Information contributor.
His day by 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 all over the world, together with Fox Nation.
He’s the writer of almost 30 books.
Sydney Borchers and Brooke Singman, each of Fox Information Digital, contributed reporting.
