Prayer asks God to improve Trump's moral failings as president stands feet away

A Democratic congressman shamed President Donald Trump during a prayer from just feet away.

Rep. Jonathan Jackson (D-IL) spoke Thursday morning at the bipartisan National Prayer Breakfast, where he cited scripture in his intercession asking God to open the 79-year-old president's heart to greater compassion and to follow Christ's teachings, as Trump stood by shifting his weight from foot to foot behind him.

"We also be reminded that we ask for theword of God, our good and gracious God, we pray forthe health and deliberationsof the president of the United States," Jackson said, "and we praythat you would be the final arbiter of whateverdecisions he endeavors to make, that you wouldincrease the stature of his wisdom, because withoutyou, none of us can adjudicate the overwhelmingdetails of leadership and lifetoday we pray for America and we pray for allparliamentarians around the world."

"The Book ofTimothy teaches us that you have been entrustedwith leadership today we pray for the future ofthis nation and that you would leave this presidentinto greater levels of compassion for your namesake," Jackson continued. "We pray that you would protect him from theiniquities of evil and that you would give himgreater clarity, greater courage and greatercapacity to do what is right and foreverchallenges. Today we remind him that the lives ofmillions of people are in his hands and that he hasthe power to turn mourninginto dancing or to reduce the country into cosmicelegy of chaos and suffering, and it is because ofthis that we pray that the best of this presidentwould rise among us for the sake of this nation,for the sake of this world, we pray that goodnessand mercy would announce themselves in his life in new and powerful ways."

"We pray thathe would be mindful of the poor and that the good,and that he would be invested in the elevation, thealleviation of suffering happening on farms in theMidwest and the families preparing to bury theirloved ones in Minneapolis remind him that we areall Americans," the congressman added. "All made in the image of God and that none of usare free unless all of us have our freedomsprotected. Many people are not lazy, many peopleare simply tired, many people simply are not okay.Matthew 25 teaches us thatfaith, that our gifts are given from God and thatwe should show them with compassion towards others.But most of all we pray that you would work outyour will in his life. May we all do more for thegreater glory of God, because when it is all saidand done,we pray as Jesus taught us to pray, we ask that wesurrender our all to Jesus. To all hope I give himfreely, I will ever love and trust him and in hislife and presence, live daily. Thy kingdom come,thy will be done on Earth as it is in heaven."