Ken Paxton went to church on Sunday, and his son-in-law prayed over him for God to give him victory over Democrat James Talarico and “the kingdom of darkness” in November’s U.S. Senate race.
Daniel Hayworth serves as campus pastor at Vintage Church in Harker Heights, Texas. Paxton, the current Texas attorney general and Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, showed up Sunday and shared the stage with Hayworth, who is married to Mattie Paxton, daughter of the politician and his now-divorced wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton.
Vintage Church is a nondenominational congregation with multiple campuses in South Central Texas, centered in Belton.
“I am grateful, Lord, that you elect and help people find positions of influence so that they can make a difference in your kingdom, God, whether it’s pastors in the pulpit or politicians who go up and they pass policy. God, you use each and every one of us that will humble ourselves before you for your purposes.”
Paxton is in a tight race with Talarico, an ordained Presbyterian minister who preaches social justice and equality. Conservative evangelicals have rallied around Paxton despite his track record of controversy and alleged criminal activity that led him to be impeached by the Republican-led House of Representatives but not convicted by the Texas Senate after Donald Trump intervened.
Hayworth prayed that God would “put your Spirit upon Ken, that you would put your words in his mouth, that you would give him a courage that is unlike anything that’s ever been seen, that he would be bold like a lion like your word says, that he would be able to continue to go out and find victory in this race as he runs against someone who takes your word and twists it to try and serve their own purposes in the kingdom of darkness.”
The pastor concluded his prayer by telling God Paxton is “doing what’s right” and this church is “gonna stand for truth of the Bible no matter what anybody else says.
“We pray that you give him peace and victory in the name of Jesus.”
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