Reading Time: 4 minutes
Today the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case against former President Trump for involvement in the events at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The question before the court is whether Trump is immune from prosecution. The justices asked important questions about the nature and scope of presidential immunity.
Trump had hoped to attend the Supreme Court hearing, but he was required to appear in another courtroom, in another state. Trump was in a New York court for the ongoing criminal trial involving alleged hush-money payments. These are just two of six cases being brought against him.
These seeming legalized attempts to keep Trump from being elected president again constitute what many now call “lawfare.” What is lawfare? The online Collins dictionary defines it as “the strategic use of legal proceedings to intimidate or hinder an opponent.” In other words: It’s the weaponization of our nation’s laws to hinder a political opponent who can perhaps not be defeated otherwise.
IFA has prepared a special report about lawfare in election politics and how we can pray about it. Download it here.
How You Can Pray About Lawfare
Lawfare may look like a mere political tug of war, but it goes much deeper than that.
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places (Ephesians 6:12).
The deliberate abuse of the law is a spiritual reality. Demonic forces are behind it, eroding absolute truth, justice, basic fairness, and the knowledge of right and wrong. This will ultimately bring a nation to its knees, especially one founded on the Christian principles of freedom and justice.
Pray that the Supreme Court justices and other judges overseeing these cases would make wise and right decisions.
Much has been spoken, written, and posted about the potential bias of the many judges involved in Trump’s cases, as well as that of the prosecutors and attorneys. But have you considered praying for these representatives of law? Below is a list of the justices and judges involved in the current cases. Intercede for all these judges by name, so that their decisions would be founded on true wisdom, and not come from any place of personal ambition or self-seeking.
Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by good conduct that his works are done in the meekness of wisdom. But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic. For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace (James 3:13–18).
- Chief Justice John Roberts
- Justice Clarence Thomas
- Justice Samuel Alito
- Justice Sonia Sotomayor
- Justice Elena Kagan
- Justice Neil Gorsuch
- Justice Brett Kavanaugh
- Justice Amy Coney Barrett
- Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
- Judge Juan M. Merchan – acting justice of the New York State Supreme Court – hush money case
- Judge Scott McAfee – Fulton County Superior Court – GA RICO case
- Judge Aileen Cannon – District judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida – classified documents case
- Judge Tanya Chutkan – District judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia – Jan 6 case
- Judge Arthur Engoron – Judge serving on the Manhattan Supreme Court – property values case
Pray that everything hidden in darkness will be brought into the light.
Here’s an example of some hidden things that are being brought to light. White House guest logs show that Nathan Wade, one of the attorneys in the Georgia racketeering case, was at the White House for meetings the day before special counsel Jack Smith brought the charges in the case being heard in the Supreme Court today. Wade was later discovered to be having an adulterous relationship with Fani Willis, the Fulton County, Georgia, district attorney.
God is bringing things to light.
Pray that God would protect our election processes from any legal wrangling that gives advantage to one party over another and further undermines trust in government.
These cases are impacting the nation in many ways. Even the ultraliberal Washington Post ran a commentary that includes this admission: “Millions of Americans now think Biden is trying to retain power by putting his main opponent in jail.”
Pray for the triumph of justice and righteousness in every one of these cases.
Download the new special report for a list of all the cases against President Trump. Bring each case to the heavenly tribunal and plead with the Judge seated there for justice worthy of the name.
Pray for a fear of God to so overcome this nation as to forbid our courts of law from ever being abused again.
Law courts are established as a place for rulings of justice, fairness, and righteousness — not as a combat zone for the promotion of sick and corrupt political ambitions. Ask God to mercifully restore our courts and our land.
Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter (Isaiah 59:14).
IFA has prepared a special report about lawfare in election politics and how we can pray about it, including summaries of the key lawfare cases going on right now.
Share this article to mobilize prayer against lawfare!
(Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America – Donald Trump, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons)