BY: Dr. John E. Warren
While the daily media has us focusing on the dismantling of America’s institutions,
healthcare, and services both here and abroad, we see that the issue is not Trump as
much as it is those who sit silently and allow his breaking of every law and oath he
swore to “protect and defend” as President of the United States. The Members of
Congress, both the House and the Senate, also took the same Oath of Office as the
President when elected. Clearly, their refusal to act as required under the separation of
powers provided in the Constitution makes them complicit with the President in the
usurping of powers, breaking of laws, and the placing of unqualified and destructive
people in positions of power being used against the American people.
The solution to all this is prayer. Prayer for and by a Nation that was founded on
Christian principles; a people who really meant it when we put “In God We Trust”
on our currency; a people whose very Pledge of Alliance” speaks of being “One Nation
Under God”. We as a nation need to go beyond the National Day of Prayer, which has
become a ritual. We need to pull out our Bibles, dust them off, and read 2 Chronicles
7:14 which says:
“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 sins, and
Will heal their land.”
We don’t need organized daily prayer groups, although that could be powerful if the
people are earnest and serious with their prayers. We just need individuals to start
praying against the evil of those in power, remembering Ephesians 6:12:
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but
against principalities, against powers, against
the rulers of the darkness of this world, against
spiritual wickedness in high places.”
It was prayer that got us through the Civil Rights Struggle. It is prayer that should fuel
our protest marches each day against this Administration, and against those men and
women who swore allegiance to protect and defend the Constitution of the United
States. It is prayer that will lead us to their replacements in the weeks ahead, but we
must not be afraid to speak truth to power.
As our Black newspapers print truth, as in this editorial, You, the reader, must not be
afraid to respond to this call to prayer as an action against the assault on us and our
values. Protect the papers that are not afraid to print this truth. Pray first, then protest
and vote. We have so little time and so much to do.
Dr. John E. Warren is publisher of The San Diego Voice and Viewpoint.
