What You Seek to Perpetuate, Should Be Worthy to Celebrate

As we celebrated President’s Day on the third Monday ofFebruary, did you give any time to think and pray for our current president as well as ponder the names and accomplishments of our past presidents? This holiday was first established to honor George Washington’s birthday and was later moved to a day that would sit on the calendar between George Washington’sFebruary 22^nd birthday and Abraham Lincoln’s February 12th birthday to honor all Presidents of the United States of America.

As we celebrated America’s 250^th birthday we are experiencing an increase in conversations and information about our Founding Fathers and especially how their faith and practice of prayer guided their decisions and guarded their hearts. Our 2026 National Day of Prayer theme artwork is a portion of the famous “Prayer at Valley Forge” painting. We are so grateful to the First Freedom Art Company for gifting the licensing to us during this year of great reflection and celebration. This powerful painting prompts us to remember the humility and heart of then General Washington and eventually President Washington. He and his men had been defeated and depleted in this War for Independence. The freezing weather, sickness, starvation and lack of supplies seemed to mean the end of all hope for victory, but George Washington walked by faith and not by sight. His humility and faith is captured in this painting, and history records repeatedly how he and so many others sought the Lord in prayer and gave God thanks and praise corporately on many occasions, and various leaders were found seeking God daily in the study of Scriptures and personal prayer.

This year on May 7^th we will celebrate the 75^th observance of The National Day of Prayer and give God glory for the Presidential Proclamations put forth every year that have praised God, His Word and called America to prayer every year since 1952 when The National Day of Prayer was established into law. We get to celebrate the written history, even before our Independence, of leaders, pilgrims, families, preachers, and all kinds of faith-filled God-fearing followers who forged through new territory and difficult, even deadly circumstances and overcame tribulations that even today spark celebrations. Nations and generations, praise God and have celebrated His goodness and guidance, upon remembering how His heart and hand moved for them and still moves for us each day. This reality should prompt us to seriously consider our own decisions and behaviors so that whatever we perpetuate will cause others to give God glory and celebrate Him today and maybe even in generations to come.

Would you please join us in prayer now?