Hello, thank you for joining me today for Give Him 15.

The title of our post is honoring Charlie Kirk.

Today's post is going to be a little different.

As you probably know by now, yesterday, conservative leader Charlie Kirk was killed by an assassin's bullet on the Utah Valley College campus.

Like many of you, I gave much of my afternoon and evening praying for Charlie Kirk and his family.

Then my friend, Gene Bailey, contacted me asking if I could be on a special edition of Flashpoint honoring Charlie's life.

I feel that for today I want to continue the focus on Charlie and pray for his family and our nation.

Charlie was an amazing young man, only 31 years of age.

Yet, because of the voice God gave him, he spoke to 100 million young people on social media

every month.

It was probably Charlie's influence that turned so many of the young generation toward Donald Trump in the recent presidential election.

It is no exaggeration to say that because of this, he helped change and shape the course of America's political history.

Before it was announced that Charlie did not survive the shooting, I had a sense that this would be the case.

I prayed earnestly and fervently for his survival, but as I did, Holy Spirit kept

taking me to Acts, Chapter 7, which is the account of Stevens' martyrdom. I couldn't help but be

reminded of how God had spared our president with a supernaturally motivated nod of his head.

Why not Charlie? I wondered.

As I meditated on this passage while praying throughout the afternoon,

the Lord began to emphasize how Stephen's death was used to impact Saul of Tarsus,

who later became the Apostle Paul. He was there watching and overseeing Stephen's martyrdom.

Paul was converted to Christ, of course, and became perhaps the most consequential

believer in all of history. Through Paul, Stephen lived on. The attempt to silence Stephen's voice

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