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• Saturday, August 1

  The Department of Health and Human Services released a joint statement with the State Department on ending gain-of-function research. Congress ultimately determined that the coronavirus pandemic was the result of U.S. government-funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan biological lab in China.

  

  The federal agencies stated, “The release of the United States Government Policy for Stopping High-Risk Life Sciences Research fulfills President Trump’s commitment to ensure that federally supported life sciences research serves the interests of the American people.”

  The statement continued, “This policy stops dangerous gain-of-function research that has the potential to threaten lives, disrupt communities, strain public health systems, and undermine America’s economic and national security if not properly restricted and controlled.”

  “Scientific leadership requires both innovation and responsibility. The United States will continue to support biomedical research that develops vaccines, therapeutics, diagnostics, and other lifesaving medical countermeasures while ensuring that the highest-risk research is subject to rigorous safeguards,” the agencies added. “We encourage our international partners to join us in ending dangerous gain-of-function research and adopting strong biosafety and biosecurity standards that make the world safer, more secure, and better prepared for future biological threats.”

  As the Lord Leads, Pray with Us…

  • For Secretary Rubio as he encourages international partners to end gain-of-function research.
  • For Secretary Kennedy as he oversees efforts to ensure health research protects American lives.
  • For the president and his Cabinet officials to be discerning in their actions and decisions regarding public health and safety

• President’s Today Schedule • August 1, 2026

  • 8:00 AM ET: The President participates in Executive Time

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• Trusting Heart

  Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act.  – Psalm 37:5

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  Many believers have either consciously or unconsciously tried to manipulate the Lord to heed their requests in the way they pray. Jesus commented on an approach of non-believers, saying, “And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him” (Matthew 6:7-8). You may think you are initiating a conversation rather than responding to one. However, God was reaching out to you long before you said yes to Him.

  While it is vital to bring your requests to the Lord in prayer, your priority should be your relationship with Him. Humble yourself and exalt Him as you pray, worshiping His majesty, His glory, His faithfulness, and His marvelous love (Psalm 25:9, 96:9, 99:9, 100:5; James 4:10; 1 John 4:10). When you place yourself unreservedly in the grace of God’s Son, you can trust that you have the Father’s ear continually, as Christ Jesus did. In His divine wisdom, He knows the right path. The simple heart prayer the Lord always responds to is, “Not my will but your will be done” (Luke 22:42).

  Pray simply from a trusting heart that God will move in the United States and the world today. Ask that many from across the nations will dedicate themselves to relationship with the Father through Christ the Son. Cultivate trust in Him so that your heart’s desire becomes only to see His will accomplished. Yield your heart and will to Him today, and let the Lord guide and strengthen you.

  Today’s Verse: Psalm 37:5

  Commit your way to the Lord;
      trust in him, and he will act.

  All Scripture quotations and audio are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

  Recommended for further reading: 1 John 5:1-15

  Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him. ² By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. ³ For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome. ⁴ For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. ⁵ Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

  ⁶ This is he who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. ⁷ For there are three that testify: ⁸ the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree. ⁹ If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, for this is the testimony of God that he has borne concerning his Son. ¹⁰ Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son. ¹¹ And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. ¹² Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.

  ¹³ I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life. ¹⁴ And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. ¹⁵ And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.

  All Scripture quotations and audio are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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