Finding Hope and Purpose in Tragedy and Forgiveness

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God's timing is always on time. We don't understand it, but God's got this thing already mapped out. It hit me for a lot, you know, I had, to be honest with you, I never cried over a loss of anybody else in my life and this might sound cold. I haven't, I've been blessed, I haven't lost a lot of family members or friends, small tier, but I honestly was impacted more from that understanding the spiritualness of what we're facing and where we're heading into, than ever before. [00:09:37]

When we cannot have a conversation at all then the relationship cannot get better. If we do not have relationships with our spouse, with our friends, with our father, as we're called to be in a relationship with Christ our creator, we can't grow that relationship. So that's what they want is they don't want us to come together, they don't want us to realize that hey, we might not agree on everything but we have common ground. [00:13:04]

By trying to assassinate and take Charlie Kirk out he thought he was going to have people run and hide but the opposite happened. The devil overplayed his cards and right now there's such an equipping and a calling on people to rise up and to stand up and to be bold like never before and that's how the spirit of God works and that's what this is. [00:14:49]

John the Baptist paved the way for the coming Messiah. I do believe and I feel it in my core that we are coming to that point. No man knows the season and times, but we were coming to that point. And it does say in the scripture, Matthew 24, verse 14, that when everybody has heard the true gospel. [00:19:45]

Think about that memorial service that was the largest broadcast of the gospel in history in history. How much more if we're on a timeline how much further of a jump did we just make from that happening? How many millions of people heard the gospel that never heard it before? [00:20:03]

To get up there and say I forgive him, I mean, I think if we're honest with ourselves we, I don't know if we could do that, right? That's a, we'd have to have been in that experience and walk through that. But to say if we could honestly do it, that's a difficult thing to say and do if we're honest with ourselves and that heart, you're right, the heart of Christ. [00:22:13]

When you start being open to explore truth you recognize truth. You know the saying real recognize real, truth knows truth. Yeah, and it's just how it is. I love that the shift is happening... I really feel in my spirit that we are called as believers to share truth, to share love, to show grace but to lead with boldness so people understand what real truth is. [00:22:51]

Her faith is so strong there's no doubt that this is her Esther moment that she was born and this is the time for that 100. Her heart is in the right place, it's going to lead a lot of people... From a biblical stance she wants to stay clean, she forgave, she doesn't want to hold any resentment, she doesn't want to aim for something but she's just like when Jesus says give to Caesar what is Caesar she says give to the government what the government. [00:30:49]

We can forgive in our spirit and let the government handle justice because that's what the government's job is because justice will be paid. You know, at the end time we all, God is a righteous judge, he will be just to all of us. And I will say this, this person who's lost, who's demonic, right, can God still reach his soul? 100. [00:31:54]

There is a righteous anger that we should have, even Jesus had anger towards his disciples at times, you know, not to mention the flipping over the tables, but there was a time for that. But also don't let that overpower you to know that you can't forgive somebody and what do you need to speak into this time as healing for yourself and for others. [00:32:59]

When she said what Charlie would say to her every day, how can I love you better, how can I serve you better, love that and that really convicted me because you know I love my wife, I do everything I possibly can but how often do I ask her what is, how does she want me to love her better? Because as men we think we know, right, we think we know everything, let's be honest, right? But that humility of that servitude is really the heart of Charlie Kirk, right, and I think that that is the heart of Christ and that's what we should all seek to improve and get better at. [00:33:34]

Sometimes saying nothing is exactly what we need to say. And I do believe that we need to be, you know, slow to anger, slow to speak. You know, we need we need to pause a second before we just lash out and make sure that we're responding in the right way. Because when you get online, and you're just start going back and forth, and you're you're doing it out of hostility or anger, where's that going to go? Are you going to win that person over? [00:38:17]

We need to go on offense, right? And by going on offense, that means we're in charge, because we are the head, not the tail. That's how we're created. So in sort of just going from an attack, we need to think smart here. And so how can I flip this? So I'm in control where Christ is in control. And I'm speaking from truth. [00:39:13]

If you've never had the opportunity to dive into the word, that's where the Holy Spirit's going to speak to you. And God is going to speak and equip each person the way that you are designed with the talents that he has already placed inside of you, the gifts he's already given you. He wants to use you for such a time as this. [00:40:15]

If you don't know the word of God, if you don't know God, how can you do what he's called you to do? And he's calling on you. He's calling on all of us, but we have to tune in. We have to tap in. [00:41:38]

Prayer, responding in prayer, that is the most powerful thing that us believers can do. And it's not like prayer to me has been misconstrued from a lot of people. It's like you're praying from a lack of weakness. And that's the opposite. It's like the last thing you have to do is pray. All we have left to do is pray. No, that's the first thing we do, because that's the most powerful thing that we have, because that's where God moves and acts. [00:41:48]

God wants to use you in such a mighty way but you have to listen to him, you have to know his word so he can use you to impact whatever environment he's going to lead you and once you start impacting that environment maybe it's your household right maybe it's your school group maybe it's on the bus ride maybe it's your little you're at work maybe you're a bad boy in a grocery store and that cashier next to you doesn't think that way and your actions not just your words your actions and how you respond and how you handle things is what's going to influence and people are going to say that guy's different what is it about that guy. [00:52:36]

Identity is once we know whose we are, we know who we are and why we're created, then we can make that impact, and that's what he is calling all of us to do. Know who we are, know him, seek him, make a difference for him. [01:03:30]

It's how we respond in this repeating is that impact. That's what's going to be made. What's leading us, right? Is it Christ? Are we trying to draw closer to him for his kingdom, for his glory? Or are we seeking after our own fleshly desires? That's an identity check that we all need to have in everything that we do. [01:04:22]

God has everything designed in a perfect order. But we have to find our place in that order, that alignment with him, so we can carry out that assignment. So my first thing would be make sure you're in alignment with him. If you don't know who he is, seek him out. Once you do know him, find out what that assignment is, that alignment. Make sure you're in alignment with his will and glory. And then what's your assignment? What are you called to do? [01:05:22]

What's our dash going to be, right? Because at the end of the day, 100 years from now, 50 years from now, everybody's going to see the day we were born and the day we passed away. You see the billboards going, Charlie, 93, 2025, right? But that dash, his impact, people know. What's our dash going to be? What are people going to know in your environment, wherever God leads you? What did you stand for? Who are you? And did you answer the call? That's really what I think we all need to honestly look at ourselves in the mirror, cry out to God about, and to move forward. [01:07:46]

There's a servitude and the humility that when we realize it's not about us rising to the top, but about glorifying Christ, that's where we're in alignment. And that's what I think we need to be. [01:08:30]

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