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 on 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 worshipped other
gods and called it multiculturalism. We have endorsed perversion and called it
an alternative lifestyle. 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.
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."
The response was immediate. A number of legislators walked out during the
prayer in protest.
In six 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
the prayer from India, Africa and Korea.
Commentator Paul Harvey aired the prayer on "The Rest of The Story" on the
radio 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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