Focus
On November
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A Prayer for One
Nation Under God
@Minister
Joe Wright, Opening remarks for the new session of the Kansas Senate, November
2000
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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. 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 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 and to openly ask these things in the name of Your Son, the
living Savior, Jesus Christ.
Amen!
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[Everyone was expecting Minister
Wright's usual generalities, but this is what they heard instead.
The response was immediate. A number of legislators walked outduring
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 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 anyother he has ever aired.
With
the Lord's help, may this prayer
sweep
overour 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.
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