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Love and prayers are surrounding you Tulsi and Abraham. 🙏🙏🙏

Ken Blacwell prays for Tulsi Gabbard and Abraham Williams. He mentions Tulsi's history and character, and he sends a powful message to people who responded tp Tulsi's resignation.

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Tulsi Gabbard walked away from one of the most powerful jobs in Washington this week to go take care of her husband. The left responded with contempt.

I want every American to see that clearly.

Lord, we ask Your mercy and healing over Abraham Williams. We ask You to surround him with strength he cannot manufacture on his own.

We ask You to hold his wife, Tulsi, in the palm of Your hand as she steps away from public service to stand at his side.

And Lord, we ask You to remind all of us, in this loud and contentious moment, that family is sacred. That vows are sacred.

Ecclesiastes 4:9 says, “Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up.” Tulsi Gabbard lived that verse this week.

I have watched Washington for a long time.

I have seen it reward ambition and punish principles.

I have seen men and women compromise who they were just to stay in the room.

So when I see someone walk away from power to honor their spouse and their family, I see character.

Tulsi Gabbard showed character.

Now, before I talk about her record, I want to tell you something about that streak of gray in her hair.

A lot of people have noticed it over the years.

Some have mocked it.

Some have compared her to a cartoon villain.

She never dyed it.

She never hid it.

Because that streak is not a style choice.

It started coming in during her first deployment to Iraq. She was a soldier with the Hawaii Army National Guard. She watched the cost of war up close.

She watched her fellow soldiers pay a price that never fully comes home with them.

And she made a decision, right then, that she would carry that reminder on her body every single day for the rest of her life. “I keep it,” she said, “as a remembrance of those who we lost there and the cost of war and why we fight so hard for peace.”
Washington is full of people who hide their scars.

Tulsi Gabbard put hers on display every single day. In a city full of people who wear medals they did not earn and claim credit for things they did not do, here is a woman wearing her sacrifice on her face and refusing to cover it up.

She looks into the mirror every morning and sees Iraq. She sees the fallen. She sees the cost.

That tells you who she is. Everything else flows from there.

She served as Director of National Intelligence for a year and a half.

She took the job knowing it would put a target on her back.

She walked into the intelligence community, one of the most powerful and entrenched institutions in all of American government, and she started asking the questions that her predecessors were too comfortable, too cautious, or too compromised to ask.

Scripture tells us in Ephesians 6:12 that “our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world.”

That verse was written two thousand years ago. It reads like a headline today.

The deep state is not a ghost story. It is a real set of institutions, populated by real people, who have used the awesome power of American intelligence to advance their own agendas. Tulsi Gabbard walked into that struggle.

She named it.

She fought it.

She created the Director’s Initiatives Group, a task force built around restoring transparency to an intelligence apparatus that had been used as a political weapon.

She fired the top officials running the National Intelligence Council after whistleblowers described them as radically opposed to the sitting president of the United States.

She revoked the security clearances of 37 officials who had abused the extraordinary trust that a clearance represents.

She declassified documents the previous administration wanted buried.

She referred leakers to the Department of Justice and told them plainly that accountability was coming.

Micah 6:8 commands us “to act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.”

Tulsi Gabbard went to Washington to act justly. She acted against powerful people who did not want justice. She accepted the cost of that.

And now she is accepting a different cost: stepping away from power to sit beside her husband while he fights for his life.

I want to be clear about who Tulsi Gabbard is, because the people attacking her right now are counting on you to forget.

She is a combat veteran.

She served in the United States Army Reserve.

She deployed.

She wore the uniform, accepted the risk, and bore the marks of it in her own hair.

When you have done that, when you have put your body between your country and its enemies, you have earned the right to speak plainly about what you see in the halls of power.

She was also a Democrat.

For years, she represented the state of Hawaii in Congress. She sat on the House Armed Services Committee.

She ran for president and exposed Kamala Harris as a fraud.

She resigned from the Democratic National Committee rather than stay silent while she watched it put its thumb on the scale.

She endorsed Bernie Sanders when the establishment wanted her to fall in line.

Proverbs 27:5 says, “Better is open rebuke than hidden love.”

Tulsi Gabbard rebuked what she believed was wrong, on the left and on the right. She paid for it both times and she kept going anyway.

Over time, she saw clearly that her political home had moved away from her.

She became an independent.

She joined the Republican Party.

The people who once called her a hero called her a traitor. The people who cheered her dissent when it was aimed at Republicans suddenly found it intolerable when it was aimed at the left.

That tells you everything you need to know.

Their praise was never about principle. It was about utility.

A patriot cannot be sorted into usefulness. A patriot serves the republic and follows the truth wherever it leads, regardless of which party benefits.

Now I want to say something about the response to her resignation.

Because it troubled my spirit. And it should trouble yours.

Her husband Abraham has been diagnosed with an extremely rare form of bone cancer. She wrote in her resignation letter: “I cannot in good conscience ask him to face this fight alone.”

She resigned from one of the most powerful positions in the American government to sit beside her husband through the hardest fight of his life.

Before Abraham had even begun his treatment, the attacks started.

Senator Adam Schiff went to social media and wrote that her “only positive contribution to our nation’s national security” was her resignation.

A former intelligence official went on CNN and made a joke out of her title. Senator Schiff did not offer opposition.

He offered contempt, aimed at a woman whose husband has cancer.

We should name it for what it is.

Romans 12:15 commands us to “rejoice with those who rejoice and mourn with those who mourn.”

That is not a complicated verse. It asks one thing: when a fellow human being is in pain, respond with humanity rather than opportunism.

A wife is going home to care for her husband. He has cancer. And sitting members of Congress rushed to their platforms to score points.

Psalm 46:1 tells us that “God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.”

The world watched Tulsi Gabbard leave her office to go be that refuge for Abraham.

And the response from her political opponents was mockery.

We should name that for what it is: A lack of character. A failure of basic human decency. And a reminder of exactly why the American people have lost faith in so many of their institutions.

I believe Tulsi Gabbard would have kept fighting. The people celebrating her departure today are celebrating because they know the hard questions she was asking will be more difficult to answer now.

Every American who believes in accountability, regardless of party, should understand what that means.

Isaiah 40:31 promises that “those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.”

Lord, there is a man named Abraham Williams who is facing a battle that no career, no power, and no title can fight for him.

His wife has chosen him.

She has laid down something rare and given it to him.

Please meet them in that sacrifice.

Please give Abraham strength.

Please give Tulsi peace.

Please renew them both.

I have seen a lot of people leave Washington.

Most of them leave angry, or defeated, or quietly.

Tulsi Gabbard left to go love her husband.

I will be praying for them. I hope you will too. 🙏🏾