Heavenly Father,

Holy is Your Name. I thank You that everything You do and everything You make is good. Your ways, Your laws, and Your righteousness hold Your creation together. In You and You alone, we find order, peace, joy, rest, and abundant life. Apart from You, there is only chaos, despair, and death.

I am grieved, Lord. I see a people in this land who are rebellious and full of pride, with an excess of food and prosperous ease. Who celebrate the death of your righteous ones. They are a selfish people who do whatever is right in their own eyes. They take Your name in vain, Jesus, calling themselves “Christians” yet living however they please or see fit, using Your precious blood as a license to sin. These are people who twist Your words to justify their lifestyles. They are not humble or teachable; they follow their own desires and look for a multitude of teachers who will tell them whatever their itching ears want to hear.

There is no fear of You, no heed to Your righteousness—the righteousness You laid as the foundation of Your creation. O Lord, chaos abounds in the land because Your people have not wholeheartedly sought or followed You, King Jesus. We choose which ways we want to follow You and justify ourselves in other ways where we need not obey, proving ourselves to be double-minded in everything we do.

These rebellious people have used and twisted words like “love” and “compassion” to mean “tolerance” and “acceptance,” even though You have shown us that love means dying on a cross for a sinful people who would have been separated from You forever had You not gone up on that cross!

You did not tolerate our sins. The irreconcilable debt of our sins, rebellion, and stubbornness to go our own way—You paid for it, and the price was Your blood! Jesus, we praise Your name forever! You died for all, so that those You saved would no longer live for themselves but for You, who died and rose again. We owe You our lives, Jesus.

Too many “Christians” say they believe in You, Jesus, but have not fully counted the cost. We say, “I believe!” but have we fully repented of our way and fully lived for You?

Charlie Kirk counted the cost. He spoke of Your righteousness unapologetically throughout the land. He called men “men” and women “women” as You created us. He championed the sanctity of marriage, Your invention at the beginning of time, which You made holy in Your sight between one man and one woman for life. Charlie taught this young generation about sexual purity, to save themselves for blessed marriage, and he defended the little ones You created at conception, whom You formed in their mothers’ wombs, fearfully and wonderfully made. He taught that guns are not the issue, but that murderous, bitter, envious, angry, and hostile hearts without God and without hope are the issue. Blessed is Charlie, who was persecuted and murdered for defending the righteousness of God; the kingdom of heaven belongs to him.

You wicked generation, when will you repent and turn to Jesus? The blood of a martyr is upon your head.

Lord, I do not pray for the sons of the world, the unrepentant, who will read this and scoff, for they are already condemned along with their father, Satan. Instead, I pray for Your children, the born-again, the sold-out followers of Jesus in the land today. I ask that You would keep us from the evil one and from the sin that so hardens the heart.

I also ask for a fresh outpouring of Your Spirit across the land today. We pray for revival and a great harvest in our time. By your great power, draw those who are teetering between the world and You, Jesus, to repentance and new life. Use us to snatch them out of the fire, and save them from a multitude of sins, just like You saved us! We ask boldly in Your name, Jesus, that You would give us the same spirit of boldness to speak the truth of Your righteousness, just as Your servant Charlie so courageously did. Like Charlie, we count the cost and look earnestly toward the reward of eternity with You!

We ask You, Heavenly Father, to protect and keep Charlie’s beautiful family, that You would comfort and provide for Erika and their two kids. Help them through this devastating loss with Your constant Presence and Shalom Peace.

In Your Wonderful, Glorious, and Powerful Name, Jesus, we pray,

Amen.