 Our first president, George Washington, led his armies to victory, but not until first he had taken time alone to invoke God's blessing upon their cause. In the most difficult hours of the Constitutional Convention, when it seemed that this little nation would not come into being after all, and the minds of these leaders were enmity with each other, they felt compelled to resort to prayer. And God heard their prayers. Down through our history, many of our nation's leaders carried their plans and hopes to God in prayer.