Pastor with GUTS!
Retrieved from email FWD by Pat Darnell | [Source Unknown]
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.'
