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OPENING PRAYER - KANSAS STATE SENATE
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 speech.
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 Reverend 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..."
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 speech.
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 Reverend 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..."
