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A Pastor with GUTS!!
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 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.
Amen!
The response was immediate. A number of legislators walked
out during the prayer in protest. In 6 short weeks, Central Christian
Church, where Rev. 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.'
If possible, please pass this prayer on to your friends.
'If you don't stand for something, you will fall for everything.'
Think about this:
If you forward this prayer to everyone on your
e-mail list, in less than 30 days it would be heard by the world.
How many people in your address book will
not receive this prayer.....do you have the guts to pass it on?
Love & God Bless
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