Posted on 09/30/2018 7:49:10 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
As most of the world knows, Judge Brett Kavanaugh has been going through Hades during his nomination process to the American Supreme Court.
His wife, Ashley, and their two daughters have also been put through much unnecessary harassment and abuse.
Ashley Kavanaugh has asked people to pray for them and for the nation, specifically by praying Psalm 40. Some of my readers prefer the King James Version below:
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DLW @Dlw20161950 Sep 28, 2018
To the prayer warriors. Ashley Kavanaugh (Judge Kavanaugh’s wife) is from Abilene, Texas. She has asked her Christian Family and friends to pray Psalms 40 over her family and also pray it for the nation. I am passing this along to you and hope you pass it to other saints who pray pic.twitter.com/FCa7v80LL4
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Praying for Judge Kavanaugh, Ashley and daughters. pic.twitter.com/8RaI9aKoiZ
— Evelyn McQuary (@EvelynMcquary) September 29, 2018
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Others might prefer the English Standard Version (ESV):
My Help and My Deliverer
To the choirmaster. A psalm of David.
40 I waited patiently for the Lord; he inclined to me and heard my cry. 2 He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure. 3 He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the Lord.
4 Blessed is the man who makes the Lord his trust, who does not turn to the proud, to those who go astray after a lie! 5 You have multiplied, O Lord my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us; none can compare with you! I will proclaim and tell of them, yet they are more than can be told.
6 In sacrifice and offering you have not delighted, but you have given me an open ear.[a] Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required. 7 Then I said, “Behold, I have come; in the scroll of the book it is written of me: 8 I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.”
9 I have told the glad news of deliverance[b] in the great congregation; behold, I have not restrained my lips, as you know, O Lord. 10 I have not hidden your deliverance within my heart; I have spoken of your faithfulness and your salvation; I have not concealed your steadfast love and your faithfulness from the great congregation.
11 As for you, O Lord, you will not restrain your mercy from me; your steadfast love and your faithfulness will ever preserve me! 12 For evils have encompassed me beyond number; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I cannot see; they are more than the hairs of my head; my heart fails me.
13 Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me! O Lord, make haste to help me! 14 Let those be put to shame and disappointed altogether who seek to snatch away my life; let those be turned back and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt! 15 Let those be appalled because of their shame who say to me, “Aha, Aha!”
16 But may all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; may those who love your salvation say continually, “Great is the Lord!” 17 As for me, I am poor and needy, but the Lord takes thought for me. You are my help and my deliverer; do not delay, O my God!
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O Lord, please thwart the attempts of the Kavanaugh family’s foes. May their pernicious deeds be brought to light and to justice, whether in the Senate chamber, at home or at school.
Please also preserve the Great Republic, the United States of America, today and always.
We ask this humbly through Jesus Christ our Lord who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen.
Both Kavanaughs are active Catholics and often refer to their faith.
Pinging. Saw you refer to this in the America Vigil thread.
I like this one better:
Psalm 64
For the director of music. A psalm of David.
1 Hear me, my God, as I voice my complaint;
protect my life from the threat of the enemy.
2 Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked,
from the plots of evildoers.
3 They sharpen their tongues like swords
and aim cruel words like deadly arrows.
4 They shoot from ambush at the innocent;
they shoot suddenly, without fear.
5 They encourage each other in evil plans,
they talk about hiding their snares;
they say, “Who will see it[b]?”
6 They plot injustice and say,
“We have devised a perfect plan!”
Surely the human mind and heart are cunning.
7 But God will shoot them with his arrows;
they will suddenly be struck down.
8 He will turn their own tongues against them
and bring them to ruin;
all who see them will shake their heads in scorn.
9 All people will fear;
they will proclaim the works of God
and ponder what he has done.
10 The righteous will rejoice in the Lord
and take refuge in him;
all the upright in heart will glory in him!
I’ve been praying for Judge Kavanaugh and his family since he was nominated. I will keep praying for them as long as it takes.
Amen. Thank you for posting this.
Amen.
Again, I’m joining others in prayers for Judge Kavanaugh and his family. May the Lord protect them through this latest trial.
Amen and Amen
By multiple accounts, Mrs K is a very nice person and a devoted wife and mother. I can’t remember anything in politics (not even the despicable conduct of the Clintons) that has made me angrier than the way the Kavanaugh family has been treated over the past few weeks. I don’t know them, have never met any of them, but I feel personally outraged by what has been done to them. There was an article within the last couple days that proposed the idea that the Left is very much doing this to send a message and flex its muscles: if they can demonize and destroy the squeaky clean, mainstream, inoffensive Kavanaughs, then they can do it to anyone.
Amen
We can see spiritual warfare by the wicked in government in what is going on against the Kavanaugh family. We need to pray for God’s protection of the Kavanaughs and our country from these evil people.
There is a verse from Genesis repeated from HipnChips that really resonates with the Kavanaugh trauma:
“You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.”
— Genesis 50:20
Time 11:14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMGg6QiLIyk&t=988s
God’s will never take you where His love cannot protect you. Or something like that.
Saving of many lives. Unborn children come to mind. And the hope of Roe v. Wade reversal.
Is it any wonder why Satan is pulling out all the stops?!
a lady reminded us at church yesterday about this request...
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD. Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered. Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart. have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest. I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.
Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me. For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.
Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me. Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil. Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.
Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified. But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.
Psalm 40:1-17
Thank you so much CondoleezzaProtege. :D
Powerful prayer. I’m going to keep this close in general! ;D
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