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Evangelist Declares White House To Be ‘Holy Ground’ And Commands ‘Demonic Networks To Be Scattered’

Paula White Cain declared “holy ground,” over Donald Trump and the White House during her invocation at the National Day of Prayer event in the Rose Garden on Thursday,

“We thank You for this wonderful White House, for our president, first lady, first family and administration,” Cain said. “We declare it to be holy ground. I will bless the Lord at all times, and His praise shall continually be in my mouth. So as we thank You for the goodness, for the prosperity of our nation, for Your blessing, for Your hand.”

White quoted multiple Scriptures as she prayed and prophesied over the first family.

“You declared in Jeremiah 1:5 that before he was ever formed in his mother’s womb that You had set him apart and ordained him. According to Psalm 139:16, that You ordained all of his days before one of them ever came into being, so not one day take You by surprise. We thank You that You have already given him the victory through Christ Jesus,” Cain said.

She also rebuked any demonic attacks against the family.

“We understand Ephesians 6:12, that we are not wrestling against flesh and blood but against principalities, wickedness and darkness, so we declare every demonic network to be scattered right now. We declare right now that there is a hedge of protection over our president, first lady, every assignment, the purpose they carry and the mantle,” Cain said.

Cain concluded her invocation by praying for Trump to complete the assignment God has called him to do.

“Like the apostle said in Galatians, the apostle Paul said, ‘I was set apart in my mother’s womb and marked off by boundaries.’ Let him fulfill all the will of the Lord and do the assignment God has carried him to do for Your great name, Your great nation and for all Your people in the world. I decree this and declare this in the mighty matchless name of Jesus Christ, and according to Job 2:28, whatever I decree and declare is established. And everybody said, ‘Amen!'”

White-Cain, who delivered the invocation at Trump’s inauguration address, became the president’s spiritual advisor in the early 2000s, after he saw her televised sermons, according to the Guardian. Trump called her unexpectedly, repeated several of her sermons “verbatim,” White-Cain said, and told her she had the “it factor.”

Like Trump, she is on her third marriage, hers to Journey keyboardist Jonathan Cain. Cain was on the White House’s public list of attendees at today’s event, along with the rest of the religious leaders who spoke, but White-Cain was not listed. She did, however, note her appearance on Instagram.

White-Cain’s “prosperity gospel” movement is controversial within the Evangelical factions of the Christian church, because she asks followers for hefty donations, with the promise they will be amply and monetarily rewarded. She and her second husband owned a $3.5 million Trump Tower condo in New York, private jets, and luxury vehicles before their divorce in 2007, Orlando Magazine reported.

Trump’s administration has moved to erase some separations between church and state in the US federal government, and has repeatedly tried to gut the Johnson Amendment, which prevents tax-exempt entities like religious congregations from endorsing political candidates. Today, it rolled out new rules that would allow health care providers to refuse to perform services that their personal religion opposed, which could include filling prescriptions for contraception.

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