Charlie Kirk: God’s Marker of Love in America’s Timeline

Ricci Johnson-Wilson

September 11, 2025

 

The Turning Point in the State of our Nation in 2025

September 10, 2025

Early this morning I went on a walk. The path I take is around an elementary school. I often pray over the educational system in California as well as the nation as I walk this path.

This particular morning, I looked down and noticed a note written out in sidewalk chalk: “Randy, your dad loves you!” with big green hearts in front and behind the words. I continued walking and saw this note written again near the crosswalk. Then again near the parking lot, the gate, and again as you round the corner toward the school entrance. In fact, this message was written no fewer than seven times. It was visible at every major intersection point this young boy could possibly look down enroute to school that morning, this marker of his father’s love was repeated.

I could not help but think of the many ways our heavenly Father demonstrated His love for us. There are significant markers in the timeline of our national history that he’s done something so profound, we could not miss the marker of His love. Often, it’s not clearly recognized until after the fact. We’ve seen it in our nation when He visited us with revivals clear back in the 1700s, Azusa Street, and the Jesus Revolution . Then again—perhaps not so obvious at the time—but a great marker we can testify to today is when He moved upon our Founding Fathers to write the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and those incredible Founding Documents uniting us as a nation. When He brought an end to conflicts, saved President Trump from assassination, and overturned Roe v Wade, we witnessed tremendous markers of His love for us as a nation. It’s beautiful.

I began to cry out to God to make Himself known to us again, to show us the Father’s love in a very real way, to give us a marker in His timeline to demonstrate His love to us…

September 10, 2025, just before noon, the alerts flashed across my phone. Charlie Kirk had been shot. Not the marker I was looking for…

The second shot heard round the world in 14 months.

Our staff went to prayer, the video footage was sent to me, it was horrific, only a miracle could save him. There’s no way this was a marker… like many, I cried out to God until the news came.

Charlie Kirk, the martyr.

I sat before the Lord stunned. Weeping for Charlie’s wife and children, his parents, to be honest, his generation.

The Lord, slowly, began to unfold the events in front of me, helping me to view them through His lens and not my own.  

31 years ago, before God formed Charlie in his mother’s womb, He called him to be a martyr for his generation and our nation. Whether you believe this or not, Charlie would be presented with this information and agree to it, before he was sent to his mother’s womb. The ultimate act of love, the ultimate sacrifice, a voice those on the left declare as “divisive” “hateful” “racist” will one day be seen as the voice that cut through the deception and ultimately united us as a nation.

Once on this earth, Charlie would not remember that conversation, but I believe he knew in his heart he’d be called upon to lay down his life for what he believed. Why? Because of the many clips circulating the internet today detailing Charlie’s beliefs, and the two things he wanted to be remembered for were his faith, and his courage to live out his faith. Of course, he did not know that the day before 9/11 would be the last day he kissed Erika, his children, hugged his parents and walked up on stage to give his last speech and begin taking questions would be the day he took his last breath. No, he didn’t know it then, but it will forever be known as the day America was set ablaze in the fight for liberty, liberty in our faith, liberty for truth, liberty for all that America stands for. The ripple effect of this day, I can assure you, will be felt for decades to come. Why? Because the life of Charlie Kirk, the 31 years this generation was blessed to have him, is the marker in America’s timeline of God’s love for America and this generation. 

How was the life Charlie Kirk a marker of God’s love in our timeline?

Charlie loved God, his family, America and President Trump. He knew more about the Word of God than half the pastors in pulpits today, and he used his knowledge and understanding of the Word to cut through the deception of Communistic, Cultural Marxist ideology in Academia for the last 13 years. His work with Turning Point USA has been the dominant force in campus conservatism in our nation for over a decade. His work was not only to speak truth to deceptive ideology, but to expose liberalism and leftist propaganda in the classroom. From the freshman on campus to President Trump in the Whitehouse, he spoke the truth, and he advocated for our liberties. Each time Charlie picked up the mic on a college campus, where the battle was the heaviest, was a marker in our nation’s history that God loves our youth. Charlie received death threats, but he refused to succumb to them, he was God’s marker of love to this generation! Through his life and ultimately his death, Charlie declared I will face death time and time again in an effort to save this generation from the deceptive ideology the enemy has unleashed. No one can do that alone! They need that kind of courage to be woven into the fabric of their DNA before they are formed into their mother’s wombs! Yes, it’s an agreed upon message threaded into the fiber of who they are that shines forth as part of the essence of who people see and it compels others to rise up with the courage and fortitude they may not even know is within them! It is the ripple effect that transforms a generation, a nation, it is indeed a marker when fallen, demonstrates the love of God for His people, a generation, a nation, and it breaks the strongholds of destructive ideologies from off the land!

On Turning Point USA’s website, Charlie’s team sells T-shirts and hats. I visited the website the night he died … I don’t know why I just felt compelled. As I scrolled through it, I saw that he has t-shirts on his web store… the first one says “never surrender” with the image of President Trump with his bloody fist raised high as he shouted fight, fight, fight! and the secret service surrounded him right after he was shot last year. The second shirt had written “We the People” with our constitution on the back. Everything was sold out, every size, every color, completely sold out.

Again, the Lord began to speak to me.

“You (the people of God) must never surrender in your fight for this nation, and you must unite under the blood that was shed to bring about your Constitution. These liberties are yours, but they came at such a hefty price. The blood of thousands and thousands shed on this soil to grant you the liberties you now possess, and they nearly slipped through your fingers, America. Will you surrender them now or will you rise up and fight!? I have a fire to ignite in the hearts of the people, it’s been reserved for such a time as this, the campuses that house and brainwash My children are about to be set ablaze with My fires of cleansing! My Awakening is here, the blood has been shed, the fire, MY FIRE, it’s coming! What will you do, America!? Will you fight? Will you surrender? Will you embrace My Fires of Revival? What will you do America?”

I knew this was not a call to pick up arms but my friends, it was a call to stand for truth. God can and will send revival, but if we water it down with the false gospels of compromise what good will the fires of revival do this generation?

We must learn to wield the Sword, the Word of God in one hand to cut through the deception that’s blanketing our nation from college campuses to media outlets. In the other hand we must learn to wield our Shield of Faith to extinguish the flaming arrows of the evil one that have been unleashed upon our children.

What will you do, America?

I have a friend who is a teacher and today 9/11 he was co-teaching with a tenured high-school teacher in a government class. A student asked the tenured teacher what he thought about Charlie Kirk’s death. This high-school teacher told the class that Charlie Kirk “got what he deserved because he was a racist, white supremacist spreading hate.” As the class went on, when viewing pictures of Christians with American flags at an event, the teacher pointing directly at them, called them fascists! There were several other things that this public high-school teacher said that clearly pointed to a liberal, Marxist mindset. I told him he had to report him; he owed it to the children! My friend was not even scheduled to sub in that class; he was posted there at the last minute. I believe God paved the path for him to observe this exchange so he could report it. He’s been influencing children with this mindset!

What will you do, America!? We are at a turning point, and the state and future of our nation depends on the prayers and actions of the rods of righteousness! We cannot sit idly by and allow this type of indoctrination to continue!

Now is the time for the revolution God showed us was coming! Now is the time to call out those promoting anti-American ideologies! The revolution is here and if we, as true Americans do not recognize the marker of God’s love through the life and martyrdom of Charlie Kirk and wield that Shield of Faith and cover our children, how will this be our turning point? The state of our nation is sick, it needs God! This is our turning point! Will we recognize it or shove our heads in the sand and let it pass us by?  

Charlie’s blood is now counted among those who gave their lives for our liberties.  The Lord told me his bloodshed will be a catalyst to unite and galvanize the conservatives in this nation. How long will we maintain it?

Charlie was indeed a soldier of Truth, cutting through deception and liberalism with the sharpest two-edged sword known to man, that of the Word of God. Our greatest weapon to date.

Make no mistake… when the Lord says we are at war for the soul of our nation, He is sending forth the call of the Shofar to bring in His mightiest warriors to take up the same military garb that Charlie did, Eph 6:10-16… may we all be as fearless in this revolutionary war as Charlie.

God knew exactly where we’d be in this hour, He knew who would be born and exactly who was necessary to retain and maintain this nation. Our golden hour still approaches, God’s markers of love are still coming, but let me tell you, we must be ignited with the fire of God if we are to carry that love, that revival across the finish line. 

On 9/11 I remember vividly where I was when I heard the news. It felt like a dream but as the dust settled, the one thing I knew was that Americans would fight. 9/11 brought people back to church, and it ignited patriotism in the nation like nothing I’ve ever seen before. Americans stood strong, determined to not let the enemy prevail. They rose as one, we were God-fearing Americans. Full stop.  Yet, for 24 years I’ve watched that will to fight the enemy wane.

Until the shots heard round the world rang out. July 13 of 2024 the Attempted Assassination of President Donald Trump drew those in the center over to the right as we saw the damage of the Leftist ideologies thrust in our faces. Then, September 10th of 2025 the Successful Assassination of Charlie Kirk. Believe it or not, these are markers of God’s love. He protected President Trump and our nation from a war. He prepared Charlie Kirk, and an entire generation who are now ready for a very different kind of war. The war for the soul of the nation. This is a turning point in the state of our nation.

Today, in light of Charlie’s martyrdom, I want to read to you the vision the Lord gave me last year for our country and what God is and will do for our nation if we, the people, will never surrender to the enemy’s plans. 

The Race to Restoration

(October 31, 2024)

I was praying in the Spirit. I had an open vision of the nation. Mom and I, along with our team and the intercessors, were pulling this nation up to a finish line.  We were so close to reaching that goal, and although it seemed we were in a race, there were no other nations on either side of us. Still, the atmosphere felt very time sensitive, as though we were coming up to the finish line.

The fight was hard, and movement was slow. We seemed exhausted, while at the same time so driven to complete the task set before us, there was no chance of stopping us.

When we were almost up to the finish line, the view panned out. That is when I finally saw the other nations, they were behind us. They were not racing, in fact, they could not move on their own, America was pulling them along behind us. It was as though we were a giant ship, and the other nations were dinghies or small vessels being pulled by America.

This was truly a sad sight to see, even as I typed this up, I recognized how helpless many nations are at this hour. The Cabal has worked to strip, abuse, and  drain them of their power, resources, and national sovereignty. America was truly the last line of defense against a tyrannical reign running without restraint across the nations of the earth.

The intercessors were pulling America, and America was pulling the vessels. Yet, it still seemed we should have been moving much faster toward that finish line. I kept wondering why we were working so hard yet moving so slowly.

I looked to the Lord for a directive or some answers to my internal query, and without a word, He pointed to something at the back end of the nation. I followed the direction of His hand. Then I saw the chains. I can’t believe I didn’t notice them right away, but there were extremely old chains that were connected at the very back end of the nation. Hanging from the chains were giant anchors.  Some of the chains had links that were partially open, I knew this meant that the work of the intercessors was indeed effective, it would not be long, and these anchors would be gone!

Suddenly, we ran to the back end of the nation with sword in hand and severed the links in those weakened areas one by one. After the last chain was cut, the nation was thrust forward! The ropes pulling the other nations behind us were still intact. Geographically, none of this made sense but they were being pulled behind America in no specific order.

As we approached the finish line, an explosion occurred, and we were thrust forward. The explosion rippled across the land like it was moving through gelatin! As the ripples of the explosion flowed outward, light replaced darkness. (It was not until this moment that I realized the nation had been shrouded in darkness.) The ripples continued building and extended to the end of the nation, then rippled across the ropes and into the nations we were pulling behind us. They too received light. The momentum from nation to nation was incredible! Nothing could stop it! Anyone who even tried was knocked clean off their feet!

I was taken back to see this event from a great distance and saw the nation split horizontally. The top layer was the spiritual layer-that portion of the work done through prayer. The bottom layer was the natural layer-this always follows the work of intercession.

The explosion was the Awakening. As Mom has shared many times, the Awakening began in January of 2023. The Awakening ultimately impacts both the top and the bottom layers.

The top layer…the Spiritual side: what occurred on the top was the intercession, prophetic revelation, and so on. We often see the powerful and revelatory preaching and teaching in connection with this element. People get saved, healed, delivered and ignited for Jesus just like on Pentecost and the revival that followed, and during Azusa Street and the world-wide revival that followed because of what occurs in the Spiritual realm. By the way, Pentecost and Azusa Street both began with an Awakening.

However, what we see in the bottom layer, the natural side, is the product of what occurs in the spiritual realm. had scaffolding quickly erected alongside beaten and battered buildings and the restoration process began. With the completion of each building, a light would turn on and cause it to glow. Then, the scaffolding would be taken down and quickly erected alongside another building.

This is where I saw it… the buildings being restored were the ancient buildings. The iconic representations of our nation. The Supreme Court, the White House, The Congress. The Lincoln Monument was polished and shining brightly, the Library of Congress was purged and restored to Truth.

I wondered in my heart what was happening with these buildings and what it meant when the light came on. The Lord impressed upon me, that with each light that turned on within a restored building, He was giving it His stamp of approval. As the approval went out, the false narrative about the individual or era they represented was broken, and truth prevailed. The light was the Lord’s marker that this building, or what it represents, had been: “Purged of deception or corruption, and restored to Truth.”

The Ecclesia grew and expanded at this point, some running for key offices and having favor of both levels because they represented life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

There was a merging of ideas, not a compromise but a merging of righteous ideals surrounded by light. They bounced between these two realms—the top layer and the bottom layer—and I saw them expand as they moved back and forth. When these ideas reached their optimum level, they burst open and poured out over the land as liquid gold causing the restoration process to speed up!

  • Churches were rebuilt
  • Schools were rebuilt
  • Media was rebuilt
  • Houses were rebuilt (these represented the restoration of the family)
  • The justice system was rebuilt
  • The government was rebuilt

The vision ended…

Now more than ever we see the need for the rebuilding of our nation. As Congress rejects a moment of silence and yet without hesitation will promote violence to support BLM, we must stand strong.

Charlie was killed because the ideology he lived and breathed conflicted with the ideology of the world. He was effective in pulling the hearts of this generation away from the indoctrination they were submerged in, and they silenced him. I know the crime scene is still fresh, but we are at a crossroads. We must ask ourselves, will we allow the enemy to silence us all, or will we rise up and take a stand against anti-God, anti-American, anti-truth ideology? Will we pierce the deception with the light of God’s word, or will we hide away in fear?

We will recognize God’s marker of love in this moment and embrace wholeheartedly our part in turning our nation back to God? The season of restoration and revolution are upon us yes, but remember, God partners with His people to accomplish His Divine will and purposes in the earth.

Charlie Kirk spent his entire adult life cutting through destructive and deceptive ideologies propagated in these radicalized academic centers to release the truth and light of the living God. It’s God’s Word that breaks the strongholds and brings forth truth. Charlie knew the truth, and because he was unwavering in his stance on that truth, he paid the ultimate price. Will we honor the blood of this young martyr by demanding the same standards he did in every walk of life? If we will, we can truly look back and say, 9/10 was the moment we saw God’s marker of love guiding us and because of this, it became the turning point in the state of our Nation.

Blessings & love,

Ricci Johnson-Wilson