Republican Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance recently shared a powerful prayer on social media following the debate between him and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. Vance explained that during a conversation about how nervous he was for the debate, a friend offered a heartfelt prayer which, Vance felt compelled to share with his followers.
“A friend asked me how nervous I was on a scale of 1 to 10. The answer? 11,” Vance began his post-debate. “A priest friend sent me this prayer before I went on stage. I share it in the hopes someone will find it as meaningful as I did.”
The prayer read, “O Ineffable Creator, who, from the treasures of Your wisdom, have established three hierarchies of angels, have arrayed them in marvelous order above the fiery heavens, and have marshaled the regions of the universe with such artful skill. You are proclaimed the true font of light and wisdom, and the primal origin raised high beyond all things.”
It continued, “Pour forth a ray of Your brightness into the darkened places of my mind; disperse from my soul the twofold darkness into which I was born: sin and ignorance. You make eloquent the tongues of infants. Refine my speech and pour forth upon my lips the goodness of Your blessing. Grant to me keenness of mind, capacity to remember, skill in learning, subtlety to interpret, and eloquence in speech. May You guide the beginning of my work, direct its progress, and bring it to completion, You who are true God and true Man, who live and reign, world without end. Amen.”
Vance also posted about the debate, writing, “Last night was fun! Remember: Kamala Harris has been in power for the last 3.5 years. She opened the border. She cast the deciding vote on trillions in new spending. The border and affordability crisis is on her. Donald Trump, by contrast, governed with common sense.”
The Christian Tribune previously reported on recent comments from Vance, detailing how he “felt the touch of God” and came to faith in Jesus Christ. While Vance was raised as a Christian, his faith would eventually falter as he got older.
He said, “While I really believed and I believed quite passionately. There was something a little bit shallow about my faith when I was a kid. And so like a lot of kids, you know, I went off to the military, to college to law school, and somewhere along the way, that faith that had developed and was germinating sort of evaporated. And so by the time that I was in law school, I started to call myself an atheist.”
Vance continued, “But to me, what really brought me back to Christ was finding a wife and falling in love and thinking about my thinking about what was required of me as a husband and as a father, and the more that I thought about those deeper questions, the more that I thought that there were, there was wisdom In the Christian faith that I had completely discarded and completely ignored, but was most relevant to the questions that were presented in my life as a husband and father.”
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