Mayor Eric Adams compared himself to the Bible’s long-suffering Job and asked a local bishop to “pray for me” when at two Brooklyn churches Sunday — days after the feds targeted some of his top lieutenants.
Adams hit the Power and Authority Evangelical Ministry on Sheffield Avenue and then the Changing Lives Christian Center on Linden Boulevard and spoke at both houses of worship about the Book of Job, calling it “my favorite story.”
“I had many Job moments in my life,” Hizzoner said at the Power and Authority Church, giving a nod to the famously persecuted Biblical character and comparing the story to his own struggles with learning disabilities, dyslexia and diabetes. “These are Job moments. When your faith becomes stronger.
“This is where I get my strength from,” the mayor later added to reporters. “This is the source of my energy.”
A reporter asked Adams if he felt as if he was being persecuted because his police commissioner, Edward Caban, and other close allies had the feds at their doors, waving warrants and seizing their electronics, last week.
“If that’s all you got out of that sermon, you’re missing it,” the mayor replied. “We all go through things.”
Then he walked to his car, and shook hands with Power and Authority Bishop Rotimi Onabanjo.
“Pray — pray for them all,” Adams said. “Pray for me.”
A spokesperson at the scene clarified that he wasn’t asking reporters to pray for him.
Despite the mayor’s recent run of trouble, many churchgoers backed him.
“I’m a fan — he seems down to earth,” Pamela Green, a 40-year-old mom who was coming out of Changing Lives with her two young children, told The Post.
Elizabeth Armstrong, a 62-year-old nurse, said she tends to agree.
“I have been reading about the investigations on him, yes,” she said. “But to me, when you are in the political life and the limelight, you are gonna’ have things thrown at you. And it makes his job a little bit harder.”
Latoya Bass, 46, added of Adams’ sermons, “It was a good message.
“We are happy to have him in the house of the Lord. And I hope that the Lord recovers him and guides him so he will direct us, the city, in the right direction.
“You have to start everything with the Lord,” she continued. “If it is not done this way, it won’t work.”
