"...one
nation under God..."
Something heard on Paul
Harvey commentary . . .
OPENING PRAYER - KANSAS STATE SENATE This Year!
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 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 speech.
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.”
The
response was immediate.
A number of legislators walked out during 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 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..."
With
God's Blessings,
"It
is the duty of nations, as well as of men, to
When I was a little boy & even as a grown man, when I would go to grandma's house, always on the wall in the bathroom was this small plaster paris plaque that my mother had made and painted, with our favorite Bible verse:
"God so loved the world,
that He gave His only begotten Son.
That whosoever believeth in Him,
should not perish,
but have everlasting life."
John 3:16