What can we learn from the life of Charlie Kirk?

As always, when we (God’s saved by the blood of His son, redeemed children) surrender to the Lord, when we give Him first place in our lives, He will reign on the throne of our hearts through the Holy Spirit and teach us all things.

what the Lord is doing in this renewal like month for me

Like always, I feel as though I have been placed at the head of the table and wined and dined!

The Scripture the Lord placed on my heart several months ago, is a steadfast source of meditation:

“Teach me your way, Lord and I will live by your truth. Give me an undivided mind to fear your name. I will praise you with all my heart, Lord, my God; and will honor your name forever. For your faithful love for me is great and you deliver my life from the depths of Sheol” (Psalm 86:11-13, HCSB).

A divided mind is what every person has acquired since the fall in the garden of Eden. You can translate mind into heart, and our hearts have been stolen.

This (9^th) “September Fast” will always be a Turning Point!

In 2023, the wife of Carolina College of Biblical Studies President approached me about starting a prayer group on campus for an age group that was heavy upon her heart. The age group? The “20 somethings”! So, a group of faithful women came together for two years, and we petitioned the Lord for a mighty work to be done in this specific age group of young adults.

Fast forward to September 10, 2025 (Charlie is taken out of this world), as I am smack-dab in the pursuit mode for God to bring renewal, and revival as I seek Him in my month-long fast. God is at work; He always is…but we are too busy with things that we miss our opportunities to get onboard and be a missionary; His ambassador to the world like Charlie Kirk.  

Listen to The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer:

“Before the Lord God made man upon the earth He first prepared for him a world of useful and pleasant things for his sustenance and delight. In the Genesis account of the creation these are called simply “things.” They were made for man’s use but they were meant always to be external to the man and subservient to him. In the deep heart of the man was a shrine where none but God was worthy to come. Within him was God; without, a thousand gifts which God had showered upon him.

But sin has introduced complications and has made those very gifts of God a potential source of ruin to the soul.

Our woes began when God was forced out of His central shrine and things were allowed to enter.”

He goes on to say, “There is within the human heart a tough, fibrous root of fallen life whose nature is to possess, always to possess. It covets things with a deep and fierce passion…. The roots of our hearts have grown down into things…God’s gifts now take the place of God, and the whole course of nature is upset by the monstrous substitution.

Our Lord referred to this tyranny of things when He said to His disciples. ‘If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall find it (Matthew 16:24-25).’”

Discipleship and not salvation is Jesus’ subject

 Jesus is pointing out a great enemy of self-life. Tozer explains “to allow this enemy to live is, in the end, to lose everything.” He also shares, “a hint is given here as to the only effective way to destroy this foe: it is by the cross. ‘Let him take up his cross and follow me.’”

The following statement emphasizes this point even more:

“The blessed ones who possess the Kingdom are they who have repudiated every external thing and have rooted from their hearts all sense of possessing…no longer slaves to the tyranny of things. They have broken the yoke of the oppressor; and this they have done not by fighting but by surrendering.”

“Whosoever will lose for my sake shall find.”

Abraham was tested with the life of his son, Isaac, the object of all his hopes and dreams. “I only wanted to remove him [that person or thing] from the temple of your heart that I might reign unchallenged there. I wanted to correct the perversion that existed in your love.”

Eve saw the fruit and desired it more than her relationship with God!

An Undivided Mind = Unite My Heart (United opposed to divided; Undivided = United)

Chapter 2 of Tozer’s book is entitled, The Blessedness of Possessing Nothing; Abraham knew his real treasures were not external, but internal and eternal!

Tozer warns, “There can be no doubt that this possessive clinging to things is one of the most harmful habits in [this] life. Because it is so natural, it is rarely recognized for the evil that it is. But its outworkings are tragic.”

Many who call on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to be saved are content to walk the path of filling their heart with things. But these individuals will suffer greatly and never experience peace and comfort which is found through daily waking and walking with a beautiful Savior who gave everything for them.

Tozer effectively sounds the alarm by pointing out if we would indeed know God in growing intimacy, we must experience the harsh and painful dying of self, as a tooth is extracted from the jaw. “He (self) must be expelled from our soul by violence, as Christ expelled the money changers from the temple. And we shall need to [steal] ourselves against his piteous begging, and to recognize it as springing out of self-pity, one of the most reprehensible sins of the human heart.”

“If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall find it” (Matthew 16:24-25).

Our heavenly father is calling us deeper into discipleship resulting in making disciples who stand up and stand out (like Charlie Kirk was effectively doing). Don’t waste your time living for things but store up treasure in heaven!

Pray with me: “Teach me your way, Lord and I will live by your truth. Give me an undivided mind to fear your name. I will praise you with all my heart, Lord, my God; and will honor your name forever. For your faithful love for me is great and you deliver my life from the depths of Sheol.”

*Tozer’s Quotes taken from: The Pursuit of God

If you missed my post on September 1^st, Tune My Heart, you can read it here.