HOPE YOU WON'T MIND SHARING THIS
PRAYER.
This Pastor has guts!! 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 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.
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 whole
heartedly 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 will fall for
everything."
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. How many People in your address
book will not receive
this prayer....do you have the
Guts to pass it on?