When minister Joe Wright was asked to open the new session of the
Kansas Senate, everyone was expecting the usual politically-correct
generalities, but what they heard instead was a stirring prayer,
passionately calling our country to repentance and righteousness.
The response was immediate. A number of legislators walked out
during the prayer in protest. In six short weeks, the Central Christian
Church had 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 the prayer from India, Africa and Korea.
THE PRAYER
Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask Your forgiveness and to
seek Your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, "Woe on those
who
call evil good," but that's 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 worshiped other gods and called it multi-culturalism.
We have endorsed perversion and called it an alternative lifestyle.
We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery.
We have neglected the needy and called it self-preservation.
We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare.
We have killed our unborn children and called it a 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 political savvy.
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, O 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.
I ask it in the name of Your Son, the living Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
What awesome insight !!! With the Lord's help, may this prayer
sweep our nation and wholeheartedly become our desire so that we again can
be called a Christian nation that fears the Lord!
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