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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:
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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.
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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 .
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.'
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 entire
world.
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