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.
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 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 church is now 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 Lord's help, may this prayer
sweep over our nation and wholeheartedly
become our desire so that we again can
be called "one nation under God."
If possible, please pass this prayer on
to your friends. "If you don't stand
for something, you'll fall for anything."
Think about this: if you forward this
prayer to everyone on your e-mail list
in less than 30 days it would be heard by
the world.
Unfortunately -- even if
every person in the
world heard, much less
seen, we live in a
time similar to that of
Ezekiel's days.