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10 Women Bringing About Change | [View online]( [Give Now]( Advertisement [Christianity Today Connection]( [Home]( [Our Latest]( [Subscribe]( Wednesday, June 5, 2019 [David Platt Asks God to Grant Trump ‘All the Grace He Needs to Govern’]( [David Platt Asks God to Grant Trump ‘All the Grace He Needs to Govern’]( The “radical” pastor prayed for the president during an unannounced stop at his suburban DC megachurch. Kate Shellnutt David Platt did not publicly sign on to Franklin Graham’s [day of prayer]( for President Donald Trump. He is not a member of his White House faith advisors, he did not endorse him, and he is not known for weighing in on day-to-day political happenings. But yesterday afternoon, when the president made a surprise visit to McLean Bible Church, the DC-area megachurch where Platt has served as teaching pastor for the past two years, the Southern Baptist preacher prayed for him from the stage. Platt ... 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