I wrote this prayer on behalf of Charlie Kirk’s family and our nation. I hope it’s helpful.
A Short Prayer for Charlie Kirk’s Family and Our Nation
Father, in Heaven, we are saddened by the horrific murder that took place yesterday. We are saddened that someone who was so relatively young (31 years old) and had a wife and two young children was so brutally murdered. Father, you are a Sovereign God and nothing is a surprise for you. You use all things for good, for the good of those who love you. Even so, we still grieve but not like those who have no hope.
Father, we pray for the Kirk family. We lift up his wife and two kids to you now. We ask, Father, that you would bring comfort and peace to his wife. O Father, show yourself as merciful and gracious towards her. Father, we pray that Charlie’s kids would grow up to profess that same faith that their father had. Please, Father, we ask that you would, in time, bring his children from spiritual darkness to spiritual life.
Father, we pray for our country. We ask that you, Father, would heal the division that is in our land. Father, would you please heal our land? Will you, please, restore to us a love for our neighbor despite our beliefs? Father, we ask that you would drive out the darkness and make the light of the Gospel clearly known. Father, equip Your Church to go into this world and proclaim the Gospel to a lost and dying world that has no hope apart from you.
Father, thank you for Jesus. We long for the day that He will return to make every wrong right. Thank you for the hope of heaven. Father, we are weary and saddened. Sometimes we want to just leave earth and be with you. As long as we have breath, Father, we know that you have a plan and purpose for us. Help us to be faithful. Help us to trust in you in all circumstances. Strengthen us and sustain us.
We pray all this in Christ’s name, Amen.