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..."
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