Published: September 10, 2024
Photo from Russell Brand’s X
Actor Prays America Experiences This Ahead of 2024 Election
By Movieguide® Contributor
Russell Brand recently shared a heartfelt prayer while in conversation with Tucker Carlson.
“I didn’t make a decision to get baptized,” the comedian and actor said while speaking at Carlson’s Arizona event. “I didn’t make a decision to start talking about Christ…Bear Grylls sort of appeared in my existence, coming out of the shadows, and said, ‘Would you like me to come and baptize you?’”
Brand joked, “And I sort of went, ‘Yeah,’ but I meant, ‘No’….I always agree to things on the basis that those things will probably never happen, and if it does, by the time we get there, I’ll have thought of an excuse to get out of it.”
However, he did go through with the baptism and “felt the Holy Spirit.”
“There was never a deliberate choice,” Brand said. “Christ chooses us. We have been chosen.”
He continued, “Since being baptized, since becoming a Christian, since surrendering to Him, I feel His presence continually…I feel free.”
Carlson then asked Brand to close the event with a prayer.
“I call on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, our heavenly Savior,” Brand said while kneeling on the stage. “I pray in your name that the forthcoming election be an opportunity for unity, for America and for Americans, for forgiveness and for grace; that the dark and demonic forces that appear to operate at the level of the state — the deep state and the corporate and global world — experience your light, Lord.”
He asked God to “guide all of our tongues and all of our words and all of our hearts, that we feel your forgiveness and that we feel your grace,” and thanked Him “for the many gifts that you have bestowed upon us [and] the glory of consciousness itself, in which we can experience you and live you. Thank you for the beauty of nature, in which we see your wisdom and your creativity and your infinite glory.”
“Thank you Lord, that you were born and died, that we may be forgiven and that we may have eternal life, not through merit or anything that we have individually achieved. For surely, all of us are fallen,” Brand concluded. “But in your holy name, we are forgiven by your act of redemption. By your sacrifice in your name, we pray. Amen.”
Brand shared a photo from the event on X, writing, “My life has changed. Praise Jesus.”
My life has changed. Praise Jesus. pic.twitter.com/E7ePECmrqR
— Russell Brand (@rustyrockets) September 6, 2024
The Christian Post reached out to Carlson for comment on Brand’s prayer, as well as his thoughts on whether or not revival is coming.
“I can’t say, but I loved it,” Carlson said.
Movieguide® previously reported on Brand’s faith:
One month after his baptism, actor Russell Brand is sharing how his newfound relationship with Jesus has changed his life.
“I’ve been a Christian a month now, and it’s been a big change,” Brand shared on his X page. “Not that I’ve entirely changed as a person, of course I haven’t, but I’ve taken on a lot of new concepts, and it changes you to accept that it’s not like you’re in a game show and by doing really, really good things you can get redeemed.”
“No, repentance — to repent — means that you have to continually change and acknowledge that I am in a battle against myself,” he continued. “That I need to surrender myself to an ever-present, eternal and accessible Jesus. That mercy is something that’s been given to me, been granted to me, that I live with through love, not something that I can sort of win or achieve by doing good deeds.”
Since his salvation, he has felt a strong “sense of peace” over his life.
“When I am in doubt, I feel the instruction there is accessible, and I know what I am supposed to do, and when I don’t do what I am supposed to do, that is even clearer,” Brand said. “When I feel myself being selfish or inconsiderate or putting myself first or not thinking about how I can be better to other people, it is as if there is an inner illumination available to me now.”
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