Earlier this year, former Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann revealed that she was inquiring of the Lord whether she should run for the seat in the Senate that had been vacated by Sen. Al Franken.
Over the weekend, Bachmannn told End Times radio host Jan Markell that after much prayer, she has decided that God does not, in fact, want her to make a bid for this seat.
"I'm not going to run for that office," she said. "I had a lot of people contacting me, wanting to give me money and be a part of my team to run for a campaign ... But what I did is I did what I have done on every other time I thought about running: I took it to the Lord in a very quiet way, I took it before the Lord, I prayed, I tried to have my ears open and hear what God was saying to me."
"I considered it for quite a long time," Bachmann continued. "From the very first day when Al Franken had announced his resignation from the U.S. Senate, I went before the Lord and it became very clear to me that I wasn't hearing any call from God to do this."
"I've always prayed and tried to seek out what God's will for me would be," she added, "and each time before, I've had this inner sense that I'm supposed to do this, I'm supposed to run. It doesn't mean a guarantee that I'll win, all it means is that that's what I sensed in my spirit, that God wanted me to run. I had absolutely no sense from the Lord at all that I was supposed to run this time."
"I just had no sense from the Lord that this is something that I should do right now," Bachmann said, "so I'm not going to do it."
