Dear God,
I thank you for raising up, Charlie Kirk. I thank you for empowering him to follow The Call you placed in his heart for You and for Your Kingdom to redeem what our culture and the enemy has stolen from our young people, even though it seems from our view, his life was cut so short. But we choose to embrace the truth that your plan is different from ours. Remember God has a plan. He tells us in Isaiah 55:8-9, “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. 9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.”
Know—Serve—Do. Charlie Kirk lived this every day. Martin Luther King Jr. entitled his speech, “I Have a Dream.” Charlie also had a dream, and he lived it out every single day. I believe that in this horrific event, Charlie’s impact will be greater than we could ever imagine. In that sense, as painful as it is, we are confident that You God, will redeem this awful, horrendous, miserable disaster to do what Your Word Charlie sent it forth to do.
It appears that Satan won this one—he did not—we cannot see what God sees, and we do not understand what God understands. But we do know that God is in control and Satan is defeated. We can ask the question, “Why?” But we will probably never get an answer. Perhaps the better question is “What now?”
Our warriors pay the ultimate price by giving their life, on real physical battle grounds on soil in faraway places, to answer the call to defend our great nation and keep the freedoms of our United States of America. Charlie gave the ultimate sacrifice, his life, the ultimate sacrifice on the spiritual battlefield, between good and evil, on our own soil. It was God’s call that moved him out into the spiritual battlefield in the exchange of ideas where evil raged and the battle was clear and defined, knowing the risk. The battlefield of spiritual warfare.
God has always desired to use His people to work in the world on the spiritual stage between good and evil. It may appear to some that evil won. But we know better. We know this because we know that God is sovereign and God is still on His throne and God is still in control. God allowed! God allowed! God allowed! That is a hard concept to grasp and embrace. But God is sovereign, and He has a much bigger plan that we cannot see nor understand.
Erika and his children also paid the ultimate price to fight an invisible enemy so these young people can be set free from the slavery and the lies they believe. This was Charlie Kirk’s dream. That our future, the younger generation, would rise up and stand to reclaim our great nation. It has been said, Charlie Kirk was this young generation’s Rush Limbaugh—perhaps—as Charlie’s message carried a resounding clarion call to point them to Jesus’ sacrifice for every one of those young people to be set free from the lies and deception Satan and our culture has perpetrated on them. Thank you, Jesus; we know you will redeem this for your perfect plan and the furtherance of your gospel of grace and truth. Charlie said if he was remembered for anything, he would want to be remembered for having courage for his faith. I believe that happened. We will see many more young people come to their knees and embrace the gospel of salvation. We have already heard of several who are heart broken and Charlie’s words are sinking deep into their hearts. One young lady grieving Charlie’s death was saved in the parking lot of a church. The ears of her heart were opened and she believed the message Charlie spoke.
God we are asking that You will show Yourself in this dark hour in Erika’s shattered heart, in the dark hour of his children’s hearts as they come to understand this awful tragedy, in the dark hour in his parents’ heart, in the dark hour of his friends, in the dark hour of our own broken hearts and in the dark hour of our nation. We are told that Charlie asked his wife daily, “How can I serve you today?” He took on the mantle of Jesus Christ and he served Erika daily. I pray every man will take on this mantle to serve their wife.
We do not understand. We are heartbroken that Charlie’s children will not know their dad. We do not have to understand. If we could figure it out, God would not be God. James Dobson stated, “When you cannot see His hand, follow His heart.” We also know that God is for us. “If God is for us, then who can be against us, Romans 8:31. There may be evil to rise up against us, but that evil will not prevail. We will stand with Him, and He will win.
When God says that His Word will not return to Him void, we understand that God is sovereign. The promise is that God’s Word will accomplish what He wants it to, not necessarily what we want it to. Like the wind that “blows wherever it pleases,” the Holy Spirit moves in mysterious ways (John 3:8). And God may use His Word in surprising ways, at surprising times, and in surprising people. Likewise, it may be disappointing, and devastating, as in this tragedy. We can’t predict exactly how God will use His Word since He is God, and we are not.
God is for Erika; God is for their children.
God is a good God. God is a good, good Father. God is for all of us. God will redeem this. We are fully confident; God will redeem this, of that we are fully confident—truly confident. God is—God is in control.
Thank you, Jesus. Amen and Amen.
I thank you for raising up, Charlie Kirk. I thank you for empowering him to follow The Call you placed in his heart for You and for Your Kingdom to redeem what our culture and the enemy has stolen from our young people, even though it seems from our view, his life was cut so short. But we choose to embrace the truth that your plan is different from ours. Remember God has a plan. He tells us in Isaiah 55:8-9, “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. 9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.”
Know—Serve—Do. Charlie Kirk lived this every day. Martin Luther King Jr. entitled his speech, “I Have a Dream.” Charlie also had a dream, and he lived it out every single day. I believe that in this horrific event, Charlie’s impact will be greater than we could ever imagine. In that sense, as painful as it is, we are confident that You God, will redeem this awful, horrendous, miserable disaster to do what Your Word Charlie sent it forth to do.
It appears that Satan won this one—he did not—we cannot see what God sees, and we do not understand what God understands. But we do know that God is in control and Satan is defeated. We can ask the question, “Why?” But we will probably never get an answer. Perhaps the better question is “What now?”
Our warriors pay the ultimate price by giving their life, on real physical battle grounds on soil in faraway places, to answer the call to defend our great nation and keep the freedoms of our United States of America. Charlie gave the ultimate sacrifice, his life, the ultimate sacrifice on the spiritual battlefield, between good and evil, on our own soil. It was God’s call that moved him out into the spiritual battlefield in the exchange of ideas where evil raged and the battle was clear and defined, knowing the risk. The battlefield of spiritual warfare.
God has always desired to use His people to work in the world on the spiritual stage between good and evil. It may appear to some that evil won. But we know better. We know this because we know that God is sovereign and God is still on His throne and God is still in control. God allowed! God allowed! God allowed! That is a hard concept to grasp and embrace. But God is sovereign, and He has a much bigger plan that we cannot see nor understand.
Erika and his children also paid the ultimate price to fight an invisible enemy so these young people can be set free from the slavery and the lies they believe. This was Charlie Kirk’s dream. That our future, the younger generation, would rise up and stand to reclaim our great nation. It has been said, Charlie Kirk was this young generation’s Rush Limbaugh—perhaps—as Charlie’s message carried a resounding clarion call to point them to Jesus’ sacrifice for every one of those young people to be set free from the lies and deception Satan and our culture has perpetrated on them. Thank you, Jesus; we know you will redeem this for your perfect plan and the furtherance of your gospel of grace and truth. Charlie said if he was remembered for anything, he would want to be remembered for having courage for his faith. I believe that happened. We will see many more young people come to their knees and embrace the gospel of salvation. We have already heard of several who are heart broken and Charlie’s words are sinking deep into their hearts. One young lady grieving Charlie’s death was saved in the parking lot of a church. The ears of her heart were opened and she believed the message Charlie spoke.
God we are asking that You will show Yourself in this dark hour in Erika’s shattered heart, in the dark hour of his children’s hearts as they come to understand this awful tragedy, in the dark hour in his parents’ heart, in the dark hour of his friends, in the dark hour of our own broken hearts and in the dark hour of our nation. We are told that Charlie asked his wife daily, “How can I serve you today?” He took on the mantle of Jesus Christ and he served Erika daily. I pray every man will take on this mantle to serve their wife.
We do not understand. We are heartbroken that Charlie’s children will not know their dad. We do not have to understand. If we could figure it out, God would not be God. James Dobson stated, “When you cannot see His hand, follow His heart.” We also know that God is for us. “If God is for us, then who can be against us, Romans 8:31. There may be evil to rise up against us, but that evil will not prevail. We will stand with Him, and He will win.
When God says that His Word will not return to Him void, we understand that God is sovereign. The promise is that God’s Word will accomplish what He wants it to, not necessarily what we want it to. Like the wind that “blows wherever it pleases,” the Holy Spirit moves in mysterious ways (John 3:8). And God may use His Word in surprising ways, at surprising times, and in surprising people. Likewise, it may be disappointing, and devastating, as in this tragedy. We can’t predict exactly how God will use His Word since He is God, and we are not.
God is for Erika; God is for their children.
God is a good God. God is a good, good Father. God is for all of us. God will redeem this. We are fully confident; God will redeem this, of that we are fully confident—truly confident. God is—God is in control.
Thank you, Jesus. Amen and Amen.
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