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Father, We ask that You continue placing a hedge of protection around President Trump and his family! Surround him with Your favor and uphold him with Your strength for each day! Draw him close to You and fill him with Your Spirit in Jesus Name!

Retribution Belongs To The LORD! The LORD is our Defender, our Shield, our Protector — He will repay our enemies! To Him belongs retribution! Who has harmed us? Who has secretly devised a plan against us, and carried it out? The LORD knows — He is our Protector! He sees all, and He knows all! Psalm 3:1-8 LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me. Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. But Thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head. I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and He heard me out of His holy hill. I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me. I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about. Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for Thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; Thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly. Salvation belongeth unto the LORD: Thy blessing is upon Thy people. Beloved, David wrote this Psalm to the LORD while being pursued by his enemies! And this wasn’t just any enemy, in this case it was his beloved son, Absalom, and the men who conspired with him against the King, his own father! 2 Samuel 15:12-14 And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counsellor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he offered sacrifices. And the conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom. And there came a messenger to David, saying, The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom. And David said unto all his servants that were with him at Jerusalem, Arise, and let us flee; for we shall not else escape from Absalom: make speed to depart, lest he overtake us suddenly, and bring evil upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the sword. Sometimes our enemies will turn out to be those closest to us! Matthew 10:34-37 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household. He that loveth father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. Absalom’s sin and rebellion against the LORD, and his father, led to his death! It all began because Absalom took matters into his own hands and sought retribution for a sin against someone he loved! His was a spiral downward! He first fled from his father for three years, then his sin turned into rebellion, his rebellion led to pride, and all of this finally led to his death! Beloved, when we take matters into our own hands it will never end well for us! The Word says it is God who repays! Retribution and revenge belong to Him! Romans 12:17-21 Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men. If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men. Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is Mine; I will repay, saith the LORD. Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. Absalom’s death though deserved — grieved the heart of his father! We should not rejoice when our enemies fall either beloved! If the LORD takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked, we shouldn’t either! Ezekiel 33:11 Say unto them, As I live, saith the LORD GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Absalom’s death! 2 Samuel 18:9-10 And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away. And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.

David’s grieves Absalom’s death! 2 Samuel 18:33 And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son! Sin leads us down a tragic path! It may feel good to our flesh to take matters into our own hands, or to fulfill the desires of our flesh, but it leads to death! Don’t let Satan deceive you, it’s not worth it! Don’t be overcome by evil, but overcome evil by obeying His Word! LORD, help us to leave it to You to defend us! Let us not take what belongs to You and seek to repay those who have wronged us! Help us to submit to Your Word and leave our enemies to You! Help us to love our enemies, bless, and do good to them according to Your Word, in Jesus Name! #EyesOnHim

Father, Nothing is hidden from You! You see the schemes of man and You laugh at their attempts to stop your purposes through President Trump! You have called and prepared him for Your purposes for this hour! Thank You that nothing can stop Your plan, or harm him in Jesus Name!

He’s Right Beside You! Do you feel alone? Do you feel like you can’t talk to the LORD, and He can’t hear you? Beloved, Faith in God cannot be based on our feelings! We must believe God’s Word, and act upon His Word — even in times we have no feelings! His Word is Truth! He is doing, and He will do just what His Word tells us! That is an absolute truth that we can be assured of! I’ve relayed this story before, but I’m reminded of it today! I hope it will encourage you that your Father is always by your side! Abba, is the most intimate form of God’s Name, showing us His character as a loving Dad! I never remember having a Dad in my life, not even someone who stepped in to take that role! This caused me to struggle with how I viewed my Father in heaven! I don’t remember my Dad ever holding me or showing me love, in fact I have very few good memories of him! Because of this I felt a void in my life, that can only be described as a hole in my heart. One night as an adult I had a dream. In the dream I saw an old video of my Dad holding me and loving on me. I was about two or so years old in the dream. My Dad was teasing playfully with me, then he said, you’re so pretty! I love you! I burst out crying in my dream when I saw the video! Then I replayed it and burst out crying again!   I now believe that God gave me a dream of something that really happened. Something that I had no memory of! Something He knew I needed! Yet, I still wondered about my Dad since I had no memory of this. A year later I was looking through old photos for a picture. I didn’t find what I was looking for, but I found something He wanted me to see! All my life in the few photos we had of me as a child, I thought my oldest brother was holding me. But, as I looked at them that day, I saw something I’d never noticed. It was my Dad holding me in one photo, and he was holding my hand in the other! It was as if my eyes were opened to see this for the very first time! It made me cry! Could these photos be from the same day as the nonexistent video the LORD showed me? As I thought about this, the LORD reminded me how many times we feel as if He isn’t with us. Do You not know what I’m going through, LORD, my struggles, my needs? Do You not love me? We don’t realize that He is with us! He is holding us, holding our hand, and loving on us! We don’t see it because we are focusing on the wrong things, or so overcome by our feelings, we are blinded! He says He will never leave us or forsake us! So, we know, He is always with us! Beloved, are you feeling like this today — That your Father is so far away, and doesn’t hear you, or see you? He does care — He does see! He is holding you, holding your hand, even when your feeling’s say otherwise! Isaiah 41:13 For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee. He is right beside you! #EyesOnHim

Father, President Trump is in Your care, hidden under the shelter of Your wings! Though his enemies seeks to destroy him, they will not prevail for You are watching over him to stop every plan they devise! You will bring an end to their evil devices in Jesus Name!

And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. And I saw a great white throne, and Him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. If you have received eternal life through His Son, and been born again your mission is to go and tell others! Mark 16:15-18 Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. Matthew 28:19-20 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen. You can give people all the world has to offer, but if you don’t give them the gospel of Jesus Christ, you’ve given them nothing! Matthew 16:25-26 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for My sake shall find it. For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? 2 Corinthians 5:17-21 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the Word of reconciliation. Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. For He hath made Him to be sin for us, Who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. #EyesOnHim

Eternal Life! Do you know that you will live forever? We have been given the Way to eternal life with Him! That Way is through His Son — Jesus Christ! He is the only Way! Acts 4:10-12 Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, Whom ye crucified, Whom God raised from the dead, even by Him doth this man stand here before you whole. This is the Stone which was set at nought of you builders, Which is become the Head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other Name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. Jesus explained this to Thomas when Thomas told Him they didn’t know the way to where He was going! John 14:1-7 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. And whither I go ye know, and the Way ye know. Thomas saith unto Him, LORD, we know not whither Thou goest; and how can we know the way? Jesus saith unto him, I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me. If ye had known Me, ye should have known My Father also: and from henceforth ye know Him, and have seen Him. John 3:14-17 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved. How do we receive this gift of salvation that has been offered to us? Let’s look at what His Word says! Matthew 7:13-23 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. Not every one that saith unto Me, LORD, LORD, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of My Father which is in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, LORD, LORD, have we not prophesied in Thy Name? and in Thy Name have cast out devils? and in Thy Name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from Me, ye that work iniquity. John 4:13-14 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. Romans 6:1-8,22-23 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His death? Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

For if we have been planted together in the likeness of His death, we shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection: Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin. Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him: [22] But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our LORD. Romans 10:9-13 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the LORD Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on Him shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same LORD over all is rich unto all that call upon Him. For whosoever shall call upon the Name of the LORD shall be saved. Acts 2:36-39 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, Whom ye have crucified, both LORD and Christ. Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do? Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the LORD our God shall call. Acts 8:29-39 Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot. And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest? And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him. The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before His shearer, so opened he not His mouth: In His humiliation His judgment was taken away: and who shall declare His generation? for His life is taken from the earth. And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or of some other man? Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus. And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized? And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him. And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the LORD caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way rejoicing. We have set before us two choices! Eternal Life or — Eternal damnation! Beloved, if you have not already done so — Will you choose Life today? You don’t know if you will have tomorrow! Deuteronomy 30:19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live. The Word of God is clear, when we die we don’t just cease to exist! We will live eternally! Will it be in heaven or hell? 2 Thessalonians 1:7-9 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the LORD shall be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our LORD Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the LORD, and from the glory of His power. Revelation 20:10-15

Father, There is a field of land mines around President Trump! The enemy seeks to destroy him at every turn. But You, Lord go before him to clear his way! You see to his enemies and turn them back; You set confusion upon them and cause them to fall in the trap they set, in Jesus Name!