Please Pray for Senate Chaplain Dr. Barry Black

United States Senate Chaplain Barry Black is hospitalized and recovering from a subdural hematoma – a brain bleed.

Dr. Black, age 76, has been serving as the Senate chaplain for 21 years. Prior to his current role, the Maryland native was a Rear Admiral in the Navy and its Chief Chaplain.

According to reports, the Seventh-day Adventist pastor was prompted to go to the hospital after receiving a call from Dr. Brian Monahan, the attending physician of the United States Congress.

The longtime chaplain told his friend, Pastor Ted Wilson, who is the president of the Seventh-day Adventist World Church, that he believes God had “miraculously intervened in his life to spare him from a potentially much more difficult health situation.”

Pastor Wilson said Dr. Black’s prognosis was promising.

“He is now on the road to recovery. It appears that Chaplain Black may be able to join his family for the Christmas season in a few days. Obviously, God impressed Dr. Monahan to make that phone call to Chaplain Black to save him from a much worse scenario.”

It’s the wise Christian who responds to promptings from the Holy Spirit. Distinguishing between the earthly and the Divine can sometimes prove challenging, but prayer and maturity will help you develop a keen sense of spiritual discernment.

Speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast back in 2017, Dr. Black stressed the many benefits of bringing our cares to the Lord in prayer:

“When we pray humanity cooperates with divinity,” he said. “My friends, there are things we will never get, except by request only. There are blessings that hang on silken cords that we will never receive, except by request only.”

He then ended by quoting the words of a hymn written by Edward Mote, a former British cabinet maker turned pastor who ministered in the middle of the 19^th Century.

“My hope does not rest in the various branches of government: executive, legislative, or judicial,” Black told those gathered. “My hope does not rest in the alliances that we build. My testimony is simply this: ‘My hope is built on nothing less Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness I dare not trust the sweetest frame But wholly lean on Jesus’ name On Christ the solid Rock I stand All other ground is sinking sand.'”

Please join us in praying for the full and complete recovery of our friend and Senate chaplain, Dr. Barry Black.