A Prayer That Calls It Like It Is!!
This was forwarded to me long ago and I
thought you might enjoy this interesting prayer given
in Kansas
at the opening session of their Senate. It seems
prayer still upsets some people.
When Minister Joe Wright was asked to open the new
session of the Kansas Senate, everyone was expecting the
usual generalities, but this is what they heard:
Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your
forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know
Your Word says, Woe to those who call evil good, but that is
exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and
reversed our values. We confess that:
We have ridiculed the absolute truth of Your Word and called
it Pluralism.
We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery,
We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare,
We have killed our unborn and called it choice,
We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable,
W
e have neglected to discipline our children & called it
building self-esteem,
We have abused power and called it politics,
We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it
ambition,
We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and
called it freedom of expression,
We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers
and called it enlightenment.
Search us, Oh, God, and know our hearts today; cleanse
us from every sin and set us free. Guide and bless these men
and women who have been sent to direct us to the center of Your will
and to openly ask these things in the name of Your Son, the living Savior,
Jesus Christ.
Amen!
The response was immediate. A number of legislators walked
out during the prayer in protest. In 6 short weeks, Central
Christian Church, where Rev. Wright is pastor, logged more than 5,000
phone calls with only 47 of those calls responding negatively. The
the church is receiving international requests for copies of this prayer
from India, Africa, and Korea.
Commentator Paul Harvey aired this prayer on his radio
program, The Rest of the Story,and received a larger
response to this program than any other he has ever aired.
With the Lords
help, may this prayer sweep over our nation and
wholeheartedly become
our desire so that we again can be called one
nation
under God
It is great what we can accomplish with the power of prayer.
Please pass this on so that others may be enlightend.
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