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| An Interesting Prayer |
An 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 call it "pluralism".
We have worshipped other gods and called it "multiculturalism";
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";
We have neglected to discipline our children and 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, to open our hearts and ask it 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
responding negatively. The church is now receiving
international requests for copies of this prayer from India,
Africa, and Korea.
Commentator Paul Harvey aired this prayer on "The Rest of the
Story" on the radio and received a larger response to this
program than any other he has ever aired.
With the Lord's help, may this prayer sweep over our nation
and whole heartedly become our desire, that we again can
be called one nation under God.
"If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for everything."
-- Unknown |
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