CONGRESS AND PRESIDENT TRUMAN ESTABLISHED A NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER AS A YEARLY EVENT. AND PRESIDENT REAGAN DESIGNATED THE FIRST THURSDAY IN MAY FOREVER MORE. BUT OUR DEVOUT CATHOLIC COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF RAISED SOME EYEBROWS TODAY BY NOT MENTIONING THE WORD GOD DURING HIS NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER PROCLAMATION. THE FIRST PRESIDENT EVER TO DO SO. PERFECT GUEST TO DISCUSS THE ISSUE JOINING ME NOW REVEREND FRANKLIN GRAHAM. BEFORE WE GET TO THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE DAY, I SAW YOU PUT OUT A FACEBOOK POST JUST MOMENTS AGO REACTING TO THE REALITY THAT JOE BIDEN DIDN'T EVEN MENTION GOD. HOW CAN YOU DO THAT ON THE NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER? >> YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW. I'M NOT SURE THAT HE EVEN KNOWS. IT WAS PROBABLY A STAFF PERSON THAT WROTE IT AND MAYBE NOT EVEN RAN IT BY HIM BECAUSE I DON'T THINK JOE BIDEN WOULD HAVE APPROVED THAT ONE. THIS IS A NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER. OF COURSE WE NEED TO CALL ON GOD. NOT JUST SOME GENERIC GODS OR SOME POWER IN THE AIR ON GOD HIMSELF, THE CREATOR WHO MADE AND CREATED THIS EARTH AND WHO SENT HIS SON, JESUS CHRIST OF HEAVEN TO THIS EARTH TO SAVE MANKIND FROM SIN BY DYING ON A CROSS AND GOD RAISED HIM TO LIFE. AND WE -- THERE IS NO ONE ELSE TO PRAY TO EXCEPT TO GOD. AND FOR JOE BIDEN TO MISS THAT I JUST THINK MAYBE IT WAS A STAFFER THAT DID THAT AND HE WASN'T EVEN AWARE. SO I WOULD LIKE TO GIVE THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT TO PRESIDENT BIDEN. >> Pete: VERY GRACEFUL FROM YOU TO DO SO. LET'S HOPE, INDEED, THAT IS CORRECT. I'M IN THE WRONG CAMERA NOW I'M IN THE RIGHT ONE. REVEREND, REAL QUICK, THE IDEA OF PRAYER, THE POWER OF PRAYER, YOU KNOW, SOME PEOPLE DISMISS IT CHURCH ATTENDANCE IS DOWN. WHAT WOULD YOU SAY TO PEOPLE WHO DOUBT THE POWER OF PRAYER? >> >> WELL, FIRST OF ALL CHURCH ATTENDANCE IS DOWN BECAUSE CHURCHES HAVE BEEN CLOSED BY THE PRESIDENT, BY DIFFERENT GOVERNORS ACROSS THIS COUNTRY. SO, YES, CHURCH ATTENDANCE IS DOWN WHEN YOUR CHURCH IS CLOSED. BUT, WE FOUND THE CHURCHES THAT ARE CLOSED THE ONES THAT WERE ONLINE ACTUALLY HAD MORE PEOPLE WATCHING ONLINE AND GIVING WENT UP. SO, I THINK WE JUST NEED TO LOOK AT MAYBE THIS NEXT YEAR AND SEE WHERE WE ARE. BUT, THE POWER OF PRAYER, NO QUESTION, GOD ANSWERS PRAYER. HE HEARS PRAYER. HE LISTENS TO PRAYER. BUT WE HAVE GOT TO APPROACH GOD IN THE RIGHT WAY. WE HAVE TO CONFESS OUR SINS AND ASK FOR HIS FORGIVENESS. AND NOT GO TO HIM WITH DIRTY HANDS SO TO SPEAK BUT WITH A CLEAN HEART. AND ASK HIM ALWAYS TO ASK THAT YOUR WILL BE DONE BECAUSE GOD WANTS THE BEST FOR US. HE DOESN'T WANT THE WORSE. HE WANTS THE BEST. >> Pete: ABSOLUTELY. >> WE HAVE TO ALWAYS ASK GOD'S WILL TO BE DONE. >> Pete: REVEREND, WE ARE A FLAWED NATION LIKE EVERY, WE ARE ALL SINFUL HUMAN BEINGS IN NEED OF GOD'S REDEMPTION. WOULD YOU BE WILL TO OFFER OF A BRIEF WORD OF PRAYER FOR US ON THE PROGRAM? >> ABSOLUTELY. FATHER, WE PRAY FOR OUR COUNTRY, PRAY FOR THE PRESIDENT. FATHER, WE PRAY FOR ALL THE FOLKS THERE AT FOX NEWS. FATHER, WE THANK YOU FOR THEM. AND WE JUST PRAY FOR PETE AND HIS FAMILY. THANK YOU, FATHER, THAT YOU LOVE US, YOU CARE FOR US, AND THAT YOU SENT YOUR SON, JESUS CHRIST FROM HEAVEN TO THIS EARTH TO DIE FOR OUR SINS AND OUR PLACE AND, FATHER, IT'S MY PRAYER THAT MANY PEOPLE PUT THEIR FAITH AND TRUST IN HIM IN JESUS' NAME REPRAY, AMEN. >> Pete: AMEN. FRANKLIN REVEREND GRAHAM, REVEREND FRANKLIN GRAHAM THANK YOU SO MUCH. THE CRUSADES YOUR FATHER DID BILLY GRAHAM, ONE IN MINNEAPOLIS AND ONE IN NEW YORK CITY HELPED CHANGE MY LIFE AND SHAPE MY WIFE AND I'M GRATEFUL FOR THE MISSION YOU CONTINUE TO DO TO SPREAD THE
