Mike Huckabee to President Trump: ‘I Believe You will Hear from Heaven’

by Paul Batura | June 19, 2025 | Culture

It’s not too often that the public is afforded an opportunity to see the private correspondence between the President of the United States and a senior administration official.

But that’s what happened earlier this week when President Trump shared a text he received from Mike Huckabee, who is currently serving as United States Ambassador to Israel.

Here was the text:

Mr President, God spared you in Butler, PA to be the most consequential President in a century—maybe ever. The decisions on your shoulders I would not want to be made by anyone else. You have many voices speaking to you Sir, but there is only ONE voice that matters. HIS voice. I am your appointed servant in this land and am available for you but I do not try to get in your presence often because I trust your instincts.
No President in my lifetime has been in a position like yours. Not since Truman in 1945. I don’t reach out to persuade you. Only to encourage you. I believe you will hear from heaven and that voice is far more important than mine or ANYONE else’s. You sent me to Israel to be your eyes, ears and voice and to make sure our flag flies above our embassy. My job is to be the last one to leave.
I will not abandon this post. Our flag will NOT come down! You did not seek this moment. This moment sought YOU! It is my honor to serve you!”

It’s not clear how President Trump responded, but Ambassador Huckabee, who has been married to his wife, Janet, for 51 years, is known for his deep Christian faith. A former pastor of several churches in Arkansas, Governor Huckabee attended Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Coming under fire while running for president in 2016, Mr. Huckabee stated, “Life, marriage and family issues aren’t bargaining chips or political considerations. They are moral issues. I will never apologize for my faith in Jesus Christ, my convictions or my values. Period.”

As Christians, we’re commanded to pray for our leaders – and in doing so, we’re asking the Lord to influence and inform their leadership.

Writing to Timothy, the apostle Paul urged, “First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way” (1 Timothy 2:1-2).

We pray for our leaders because we’re commanded to do so – and because we all benefit when those leading us are divinely guided. We want our leaders to hear from heaven.

Of course, the Lord can communicate with anyone anyway He chooses to – but He most often seems to speak with us via His Holy Word, prayer, and also through the counsel of others.

It might be politically incorrect for a president to admit that he’s seeking God’s guidance, but there is plenty of precedent for doing so. We know George Washington prayed daily, as did John Adams.

After Abraham Lincoln died, John Hay, one of his secretaries, found this written in the 16th president’s own hand. It was dated September, 1862 – right in the middle of the Civil War:

The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God’s purpose is something different from the purpose of either party — and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose. I am almost ready to say that this is probably true — that God wills this contest, and wills that it shall not end yet. By his mere great power, on the minds of the now contestants, He could have either saved or destroyed the Union without a human contest. Yet the contest began. And, having begun He could give the final victory to either side any day. Yet the contest proceeds.

Lincoln was praying earnestly to learn and follow God’s will.

A video surfaced on Twitter of a pastors’ gathering at the White House just yesterday. Those assembled were praising and worshipping the Lord. This is a very good thing.

Over 163 years later, we pray that President Trump and all our elected leaders will similarly and earnestly seek to hear from heaven in these fragile and consequential days.