A Prayer for Our State and Nation
By: Gov. Larry Rhoden
April 18, 2025
We’re at the Easter holiday. It’s a great holiday to celebrate traditions with family and loved ones. I remember when I was a child, the day before Easter we would dye eggs that we’d just gathered from the chicken coop. You rarely see real eggs at Easter egg hunts anymore! To this day, my wife Sandy hides Easter baskets outside for everyone to find – adults included.
But Easter is about far more than just egg hunts, good food, and time with loved ones. As I write this column, it’s Good Friday, the day that we reflect on our Savior’s sacrifice for the entire world. Easter comes in a few days to reflect on our Savior’s resurrection.
I’d like to take this opportunity to offer a prayer for our state and nation, particularly for the leaders who serve in positions of public service. If you’ll join me in prayer:
Dear Savior Jesus Christ,
About 2,000 years ago, the government of one of the most powerful empires in history sent you to the cross.
Today, Christians across the world reflect on your sacrifice for us that day: Good Friday. And we celebrate that which is to come this Sunday: Easter, when you rose from the grave and conquered death.
Lord, you bestow an incredible trust on those of us who serve our people in Government.
In 1 Peter 2:13, you tell us to “Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human authority.”
You also share countless examples in your Scriptures of what it means to be a good ruler – or a bad one. Give us the wisdom to know the difference.
Give us the insight to follow that path that will make us good leaders of your people. Give us the knowledge to make the best possible decisions for those that we lead. And when these gifts fail – give us the humility to trust in your will – not our own.
Be with President Donald J. Trump, our congressional delegation, and our state legislators. Be with the leaders in our cities, counties, and communities. And Lord, I ask that you be with me, with Lieutenant Governor Venhuizen, and with our whole administration.
All authority comes from you. So help us to exercise our authority as you would – for the good of your people.
In your name we pray – Amen.
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Well said, Governor. Well said.
Governor Rhoden is a man of integrity. God grant him strength, wisdom, and humility that he may govern well.
Then there is this holiday message from our President…
“Happy Easter to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics who are fighting and scheming so hard to bring Murderers, Drug Lords, Dangerous Prisoners, the Mentally Insane, and well known MS-13 Gang Members and Wife Beaters, back into our Country. Happy Easter also to the WEAK and INEFFECTIVE Judges and Law Enforcement Officials who are allowing this sinister attack on our Nation to continue, an attack so violent that it will never be forgotten! Sleepy Joe Biden purposefully allowed Millions of CRIMINALS to enter our Country, totally unvetted and unchecked, through an Open Borders Policy that will go down in history as the single most calamitous act ever perpetrated upon America. He was, by far, our WORST and most Incompetent President, a man who had absolutely no idea what he was doing — But to him, and to the person that ran and manipulated the Auto Pen (perhaps our REAL President!), and to all of the people who CHEATED in the 2020 Presidential Election in order to get this highly destructive Moron Elected, I wish you, with great love, sincerity, and affection, a very Happy Easter!!!”
You Trump disciples can go on pretending that this guy is God’s gift to the world. I’ll pass. That kind of message… on Easter… is evil.
You using this day to attack your political opponent is no different than what you are upset about.
Yeah comparing a citizens behavior to that of the leader of the free world really is logical.
Ten years ago, if you were all reading that same Easter message, 95 percent of you would have joined me in saying… it’s demented.
Well, I haven’t changed.
Thanks for your constancy elk – Trump is a lying crook – he will never NOT be the 2020 LOSER – and the 2021 TRAITOR. Happy Easter even to him too. May Trump know the reason for the season someday.
We can look it up in the bible in his own image he tried to sell!
And he will never NOT be the 2024 WINNER. Get over it and get your TDS addressed.
thx for playing
Want to discuss how wrong you have been in the past? Didn’t think so.
Election was stolen. Has to be! That’s what we do now, right? Just claim everything we don’t like isn’t true and demand alternate electors? You know, like sane people?
Well, according to enquirer the 2024 election was stolen…oh, I’m sorry, President Trump didn’t win a fair election.
look who has tds
Then explain to us how it wasn’t fair…oh that’s right, you can’t, as usual.
Batting almost 1000 there big fella.
lol you can’t stop yourself!! thanks for playing!
LOL!! You can’t back up any of the ridiculous claims you have made!! Care to try? I can post some of them here if you can’t remember old fella.
Your deflection is consistent.
i predict you’ll never be able to resist posting when my name appears. you have no control over yourself. even if you don’t post something after this in an effort to prove me wrong, you’ll still wander around your moms basement muttering and punching walls lmao
HA ha ha! And you will still be wrong and unable to back your statements as you always have been unable. In other words, you have never proven yourself correct.
You make it so easy to get under your skin.
Come on man! Scratch that itch. You know you want to.
Nice. You found a guy who claimed that. The current President claimed it in 2020 and tried to lead a scheme to seat alternate electors. Now tell me what Enquirer did and why this is the same.
Father God
In Jesus’ name we confess our sins, and accept the gift of your son’s sacrifice to wash away our sins, and humbly thank You for forgiveness we receive for His sake, from Your mighty hand.
Help us to seek Your will first in all things, and treat each other as we would have others treat us.
Help us to extend grace and generosity to the foreigner in our midst.
Help our leaders, close at home and at the far citadels, to rule with humility, wisdom and love for mankind.
We read in Your word that nations get the leaders their people deserve, in each era of history – the brave and strong leader for a humble people – and the weak and evil leader to bring a haughty nation its trial in the refining fires of fear and downfall.
We pray that You turn hardened hearts back to Your loving ways, and that You ignite in us a new thirst for truth, simple honesty and brotherly love. We pray that You continue to bring the multitudes to humble repentance and lead us along better paths.
May You keep our cities, states, nations and world safe in Your hands, and watch over those we love.
In Jesus’s name we pray, Amen
Anonymous 11:47 , 1:22.
You, are being intellectually dishonest if you can look in the mirror and tell yourself that DJT is not one of the Sh*ittiest human beings.
If the previous administration pulled the crap that you MAGA circus fleas seem to condone, your heads would have exploded.
And you know it.
I’m trying to imagine Jesus on the southern boarder in a red MEGA hat. Arms outstretched, looking at the immigrants saying “Brothers, Sisters, go back to the cesspool from which you came. You are not welcome here.”
I’m trying to imagine ANY liberal democrat wearing a LBGTQLMNOPWTRY@@!!++ hat and wearing a “Defund ICE” shirt standing in their yard with arms outstretched looking at the immigrants saying “Welcome to my home! Pitch your tent wherever you would like and feel free to let yourself into my home and help yourself to all I have and relieve yourself in my yard when you feel the need.”
The post seemed to be about the teaching of Jesus, not liberal democrats. Stay focused!
The post is pointing out the hypocrisy of liberal democrats…maybe follow your own advice.
So if you don’t want people camping in your yard, it’s hypocritical to let them in the country? Tell me: when you started writing this, did you pat yourself on the back because of your devastating logic? Did you wipe the drool from your lip after?
The vast majority of immigrants did come here to live in my yard. They came here to make a better life for themselves and their families. But good job parroting the president’s unchristian rhetoric. So, you can pat yourself on the head while you wipe the DJT semen off your lips.
Reread what I wrote. I argued against Trump, not for him
Typical liberal turd. It’s just fine and dandy for tens of thousands of immigrants to come here illegally…as long as it is several hundred miles away and you don’t have to see or deal with them directly. But ask a liberal to put up with and provide for illegals on a more personal basis well then, OH NO!! WE CAN’T BE EXPECTED TO DO THAT!
Not my problem you can’t see the hypocrisy of your cult of morons called the democrats.
You’re moving the goalposts. Are you asking them to be within 100 miles of my community or in a tent city in my front yard? You’re all over the place.
Wow, your reading comprehension is stellar…not really, that was sarcasm. Genius people like you are why the words “do not eat” are printed on the silica pouches.
All I know is we generally have an orderly border system. People come, people go. Then it’s election time, and suddenly everything is a leaky broken hellscape – Trump demands kingly powers and obedience or WE ARE GONNA LOSE OUR COUNTRY!! And the red-hat faithful bow down deep. And each day the border is the same old border, just some days with Kristi Noem and a loaded assault weapon, and some days not. Some days with dead people on barbed wire, some days not. That’s all most of us see. But please continue fearmongering, it makes you all red-faced and shouty, which you seem to enjoy. Pump up them numbers.
Guess you haven’t paid much attention to the latest numbers…
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-releases-march-2025-monthly-update
Looks like President Trump was right, all we needed was a new president.
Mmmm more like you needed a super-prison in El Salvador and a crazed cos-play Secretary of Homeland Security going all Annie Oakley on Fox News.
15 months ago Trump stopped Congress and Biden from FIXING THE BORDER – Trump created Bidens problems.
The bill that was voted against by a majority was a garbage bill that did nothing to stop illegal immigration.
Trump created the problem of immigration for Biden? Sure, everything is Trump’s fault. Biden’s first mistake was to put an incompetent fool in charge of the border; you know Kamala the kackling hyena? Biden mess started immediately after his inauguration by cancelling Trump policies. Maybe take a look:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2024/02/11/trump-biden-immigration-border-compared/
And then look what happened after President Trump was inaugurated in January. The illegal immigration dropped off a cliff. Did he need Congress to pass another worthless law? No, all President Trump needed to do was to allow CBP and ICE to enforce laws that already existed. And it’s only been 3 months and illegal immigration has dropped off by over 95%.
So by all means, do whatever it takes to make yourself feel better and keep blaming others for your man Biden’s failures.
Whatever
Whatever.