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 began 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..."
(We could add one more confession to the above, on this special holiday: We
have gaped in awe at a young politician standing in Springfield,
Illinois, and called him Lincoln. It looks like we are going to be led down
another promising but fatal path...) [Written in 2007, as Obama was campaigning.]
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