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When Pastor Paula White-Cain walked to the podium in Amway Center in Orlando, Florida, on June 18, 2019, the stands were filling, and the crowd was teeming with excitement, though it would be another two hours before President Trump would announce his reelection bid. She quoted Trump as saying, “We worship God, not government,” as a segue into her prayer. After invoking the name of Jesus and thanking God for the “great United States,” the president and God’s blessings, she prayed, “Father, You have raised President Trump up for such a time as this,” invoking blessings from Psalms and the book of Daniel about revealing “the secrets and the deep things” to the president. Then she began to pray against “principalities and powers”—terminology rarely heard or understood outside the walls of a charismatic or Pentecostal church.

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“Let every evil veil of deception of the enemy be removed from people’s eyes in the name which is above every name, the name of Jesus Christ,” she prayed. “You said in Your Word … in Ephesians 6:12, that ‘We are not wrestling against flesh and blood but against principalities, powers, against rulers of darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.’” The respected charismatic Bible teacher Dutch Sheets, who watched the rally via livestream, told me: “I have never seen anything like that on TV. I literally sat there with my mouth hanging open. I couldn’t believe she had the boldness to do that or was allowed to do it. It was as if she drew a line in the sand spiritually.”

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Light versus darkness. Good versus evil. God’s plan versus the enemy’s destructive initiatives. The Spirit-breathed plans of God versus the enemy’s deceitful agenda. This binary worldview, held by virtually all Spirit-filled Christians, played a major role in electing Donald J. Trump as our nation’s president in 2016. Now, four years later, the spiritual battle lines have been drawn, and the stakes are even higher.

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