Family Life

02.06.13 | Sarah Harnisch

The National Prayer Breakfast is tomorrow morning in Washington D.C. Several lawmakers spoke about their faith on the house floor this week in advance of the breakfast. Oklahoma Congressman James Langford gave his testimony before all of his colleagues this week. He said "at 8 years old I remember extremely well, sitting on the balcony of our big church-- and realizing 'there is a God, and I don't know Him.' And I spent the rest of the day thinking and processing through 'what does it mean to know God'? And as an 8 year old boy, I laid in bed that night and I prayed to Jesus for the first time in my life that I'd be forgiven of my sin, and I'd begin a relationship with this God who made me." Langford said the breakfast is critical, because prayer is critical. "The National Prayer Breakfast is a great reminder to us as a nation, just to be able to slow down, not as Republicans or Democrats, but as Americans. To be able to come together and do what we always do: to pray."