Last week we had an amazing Phone Gathering of the Eagles, we are so grateful to those of you who joined us. Next week, we will have our Phone Yom Kippur Gathering of the Eagles. This is the Day of Atonement, the High Holy day wherein the books are opened, the sins are repented of, and we prepare for the Hebraic New Year. This year, we lay the sins of the nation upon the altar of our Lord and repent. I pray you can join us for this important time before the Lord.

 
I would like to encourage you to come prepared, having spent time before the Lord in preparation for our time together. When we engage in repentance, intercession and warfare, we must first go low before the Lord, cleansing our own hearts, laying the offenses we may have against our brother prior to bringing our gifts and sacrifices of prayer before the Lord.

I was listening to Erika Kirk speak at Charlie Kirk’s memorial this past Sunday. The Lord has granted her such strength. Most would have crumbled under the weight of the burden she is carrying. Her husband was a very public figure, he was changing the world, and she is now tasked with carrying on his legacy. How is it possible for one so young to move from grieving widow to a warrior standing before the President and Vice President of the United States of America, along with over 100 million online viewers and share the things she shared?

The answer is found in one of the most impactful statements within her speech. As she looked into the camera and declared when referring to the man who took her husband’s life: “I forgive him” the chains that would otherwise have kept her bound in the pain of the past, fell away. As she spoke those words, she granted the nation permission to forgive him as well. If you did not watch this moving memorial, the stadium stood and erupted in applause, many through tears, at her act of grace and forgiveness.

If she hadn’t had the courage to forgive, if she stood there and shook her fist and cried out for vengeance, the nation would have carried the same offense in their hearts, because we love Charlie Kirk, he is God’s marker of love in the timeline of America’s history and he was a martyr for truth.

As a result of her courage to forgive, Erika Kirk was free to step into the role God created her to fulfill. Will she still grieve? Yes, of course she will. However, she is now free to grieve without the bondage that unforgiveness creates in the soul. Her healing process, as well as the nation’s, will occur much faster, and run far deeper than if she hadn’t taken this step.

True forgiveness of those who offend us, our family, even our children, grants us the strength and stability to stand strong, immoveable, in the most painful, seemingly impossible times of our lives. How? When we lay down our own emotions and our perceived rights to those emotions, and forgive those who sinned against us, then, and only then can we receive of the strength God grants us to rise from the ashes of our present devastation and become the warrior God created us to be. We are called to be overcoming warriors for His kingdom. Many are called; few are chosen. Why? Because few are willing to pay the price to answer the call.

This moment of forgiveness was key. As we approach the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, let us remember this tremendous act of grace demonstrated to us by this young warrior and follow her example. Let us forgive our debtors, our offenders, whether they are our neighbor or the globalists trying to destabilize our nation, if we are to overcome them, we must first forgive them.

I believe this is necessary as we come together to intercede over our nation. As intercessors, we face painful things that must be repented for on behalf of our country. We also much to choose to forgive the offenses we uncover, that takes maturity and rises from the heart of an overcoming warrior. It’s here in a place of forgiveness that we carry the mantle of intercession that we can freely weep and war on behalf of our nation to bring healing to it in preparation for the revival sweeping across the land.

Join us next week for our Phone Yom Kippur Gathering of the Eagles! October 1-3, 2025.

Much love,
Ricci Johnson-Wilson
PS – I wanted to share the following giving information with you again. Especially as we approach the end of the year.

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Dear Friends,

Today we just released a new method to give to the ministry!

This new service is a gamechanger for us, we can now provide you with simplified options that accept a variety of giving methods, all with a click of the button!

You can donate directly through Square from your mobile device using Apple Pay or Google Pay. I just tried it myself and was thrilled to see how easy it was!

In addition, many, many of you have asked us to provide monthly re-occurring giving options. Square has that option available! You can set up your monthly donation once, and it will continue until you cancel it! This is not an option we've been able to offer until today!

I hope you find this system as simple and as easy to use as I did, I wish I'd set it up long ago!

Two options available:

1-use this link for one-time gifts

2-use this link to set up your monthly giving plan!

For those who prefer to continue to use Zelle or PayPal, that option is still available.

Zelle ricci@WorldforJesus.org

If you’d like to donate online through our website, click here to be taken to our Donations page.

If you send checks out via Bill Pay, be sure to update our mailing address in that system as well.

Finally, I ask that you please keep our finances in your prayers. This has been one of our most difficult years to date. Mom began this ministry in 1987 with just her. I joined her in 1990 volunteering part-time for a decade before I came on staff full-time as a single mother raising my four children and I can honestly say, this has been one of our most challenging seasons. 

I appreciate you standing with us both during the good as well as the difficult times.

Thank you!

Blessings & love,

Ricci Johnson-Wilson on behalf of Nita and our entire WFJM/JA/CW Team