I Used to Hate Donald Trump. Then God Spoke.

I was raised in a liberal state in a God-acknowledging but Democrat household. My parents had my siblings and I memorize the Ten Commandments, but like many minorities: African American, Jewish, or Latino, we believed the Democratic Party was for us and the Republican Party was a group of racists who were against us.

I knew of Donald Trump from television, but it wasn't until his aspirations turned political that I began to loathe him, as all Democrats did.

Nobody thought he would win the first election. When he did, it was a complete shock. I was depressed for days and was sure America was done, as everyone said it would be.

But nothing bad happened. Those four years, I spent like most democrat did: ridiculing President Trump at every turn. Every press release, every tweet, was an opportunity to mock him. That's how we coped.

In my personal life, though, things were spiraling. They were worse than they'd ever been and I was without hope.

I cried out to God one day and had an encounter with Yeshua. I got saved. Really saved, not in a memorizing verses saved, but for the first time, I had a relationship with God through the Messiah who I knew loved me, died for my sins, rose, and lives now.

I was on fire for God and was delving deep into scripture and committing myself to understanding the Word. I spent most of my free time listening to sermons and worship music.

Then the next election time came. Nothing has changed for me in terms of what I saw as a prideful, embarrassment of a president. I was ready to vote Democrat again until one day, I can’t remember if it was a voice or strong knowing or a stirring in my spirit, but God told me to vote for President Trump.

I know it sounds crazy, but I knew. He told me.

I was shocked, afraid, and disappointed. I didn't tell anyone for fear or sounding crazy. But I couldn’t deny what I’d heard. I knew what God wanted but couldn’t understand.

Him? The one who had said all those horrible things? Who has all of those horrible accusations pointed at him (most of which sounded true to me)? What about his haughty way of talking, his rudeness, his...everything.

But God didn’t change His directive.

I’d moved out of the county but still voted by absentee ballot. Selecting him down as my absentee vote, I felt like someone else. But God had just pulled me out of a season of my life that had tried to kill me. Yeshua had revealed to me who He is. He had revealed Himself as the Lord who loved me and turned my life around.

I wasn't about to disobey Him for anything.

God never explained Himself to me, but He would allow me to see how the media would twist President Trump's words. I remember one press conference where a woman asked a question. The President in his classic rough delivery asked her if she was part of the "Chinese media."

When she said, "No, I'm Korean," the media went wild and accused him of racism.

Days later, it came out that her newspaper was in fact owned by a Chinese media outlet. He had been right, but no one apologized. He'd been right, but it was so easy to make him look evil because he tends to call things out in a not-so-gentle manner.

That was the beginning of a journey where God started to show me all isn't always what it seems like and much of what I had been taught to believe was wrong.

When President Trump lost the election I was shocked. Why would God have me vote for someone who would lose? I called my father, who I don't talk to often. The strangest thing I never could have imagined happened. He told me God had told him to vote for President Trump as well. He didn't sound happy either. He didn't like the man. I was shocked because my father doesn't speak like that.

My father is a lifelong Democrat and still is. He still believes most republicans are racist and would never, ever, vote for one. But he does fear God.

I never told him God told me do the same thing, but I knew in that moment that all of the claims that the election was stolen were probably true.

If God has spoken to two Democrats (although, I no longer consider myself a Democrat), who else had he talked to?

I have since walked with Yeshua for some years and know a few things to be true:

1) the enemy hates the United States of America the same way he hates Israel.

2) The Democratic party is not the altruistic party it pretends to me.

3) President Trump is not a perfect person or the Messiah, but he is the one God has chosen.

We serve a God who uses the foolish things to confound the wise as it say in 1 Corinthians 1:27.

When Samuel went to Jesse's house to see who the new King would be, Jesse was so convinced it would be one of his big, strong sons he didn't even call in David from the field.

If CNN had existed when King David was around, the headlines would have been terrible. Adulterer. Murderer.

What about Sha'ul (the apostle Paul)? His headlines would have him down as an accomplice to murder at the very least.

God uses whom He chooses.

"As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts." Isaiah 55:9

Many Jewish people could not and still cannot swallow the idea of Yeshua being the Messiah. He just didn't fit the bill of who they believed the Messiah would be. Even though He fulfilled so many prophecies in Isaiah and Micah, He didn't do what the people wanted.

He didn't destroy the Romans. He wasn't striking like Saul. He was humble. He hung out with the wrong people. He offended the religious. He wasn't rich. He didn't come from an impressive neighborhood ("Can anything good come from Nazareth?" John 1:46)

"My servant grew up in the Lord’s presence like a tender green shoot, like a root in dry ground. There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance, nothing to attract us to him." Isaiah 5:32

He let Himself die a humiliating death.

And yet, it was Him.

"We preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness." 1 Corinthians 1:23

So often, God does not choose who we would choose. He doesn't look at the outside, He looks at the heart. He sees the unseen things. He knows who is right for the job even when it offends our sensibilities.

I don't know much about the man President Donald Trump, but I do know God's hand is over him. I know he is the man God has selected for the job. I know political insiders hate him for it. I know many have been conditioned to hate and fear him.

I know he has been targeted in a way that would break the average person and that it must be Jesus strengthening him.

Because if God is for you, who can be against you?

I regret the days I spent hating him and have repented of that. As believers, we are not called to hate anyone, and I judged wrongly. If you follow Yeshua and find your voice joining with the world's against this man, I would take it to the Lord for direction because I was once there and have been corrected.

The devil is a liar.

I'm praying for the families of those slain in the July 13th assassination attempt.

And I'm praying for you, President Donald Trump. There are many who see the truth now. God Bless you.

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